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mike and liz adopt skip to main skip to sidebar friday may 24 2013 we are still here we are still here and mark is doing fantastic it s hard to believe he is about to graduate preschool shortly a baby no longer but he will always be our sweet baby boy posted by owl gal liz at 5 26 am no comments friday august 22 2008 well it s official today august 22 2008 is our forever family day we found out tuesday afternoon that there was a good chance we d get to go to court on friday morning yesterday we got the a ok and this morning we went to court and were on the docket at 830 am there were 4 cases of family court in front of us and by 9 am mark s adoption was finalized there to celebrate with us were mike s parents my mom my sister and brother in law and our niece and nephew my dad was there via phone as he was on a plane to alaska afterwards my other sister and her daughter met up with us they d had to take my nephew to school this morning and my mom mamacita both sisters my brother in law my nephew and both nieces mike mark and i all went to cracker barrel for brunch mike s parents are off in galveston and will stop by to visit on their way home we are so happy so excited and tired we had to get up super early this morning to be at court at 815 am so we are going to relax this afternoon and evening and enjoy being a family i guess this is my last post in this blog for now as it was for our adoption journey if the opportunity comes up to adopt again i ll start it back up but for now we move on to a parenting journey and our adventures with our son mark thanks for following along with us it s been quite the ride but it was more than worth the wait posted by owl gal liz at 1 35 pm 7 comments sunday august 10 2008 closer we re getting closer no news is good news i guess we ll be calling again tomorrow to see if we can get an update latest was that both lawyers need to get together to make sure everything is all in order to turn in keep your fingers crossed something happens soon once we are finalized i can t wait to start the next blog mark has been up to so much and i can t wait to share it with you here is the link to his new blog we ll start posting in it as soon as it s all done http hewasworththewait blogspot com posted by owl gal liz at 6 19 pm no comments thursday august 07 2008 august update in one of our online playgroups we do an update each month the first week or so of the month so i thought i d post ours here you can see our little guy has been quite busy lately age 7 months weight 18 lbs length 26 75 inches milestones crawling pulling up sitting up from a crawling position too many to name mike said last week wow last week was a big week for him developmentally and if he said something you know lots has happened mobility status crawling pulling up with a few steps while holding on to something diaper size and brand we ve been using natural choice environmentally friendly in size 3 but we re almost done with that case and we have some whole foods 365 and some earth s best size 3 to try next we use seventh generation a lot too what size clothes 6 9 mo he s in a solid 6 months now though he can wear some 3 6 tops and shorts how long is your baby sleeping at night 10 12 hours how many naps 2 3 favorite toy his books that make noise favorite activity jumperoo how do they interact with their siblings with the cat great chases after her and pets her he s learned not to grab her fur loves his cousins ages 1 2 3 and 5 too and gets right in there with them how many teeth two full plus 2 that are currently breaking through and two that are right under favorite food anything and everything peach apricot muesli is his favorite baby food from earth s best he loves oatmeal cereal and multi grain cereal from happy bellies and several of the happy baby frozen foods he loves mashed potatoes avocados frozen mangos guacamole and grilled cheese least favorite food nothing really actually i take that back he doesn t like smooth pureed baby food he wants real food what are the family plans for the rest of the summer hanging around home some trips to the river hopefully finalization recent picture he got caught trying to climb over daddy s legs to get to his arrow root cookies posted by owl gal liz at 8 07 pm no comments friday july 25 2008 7 months wow we ve been home six months our little guy is seven months old today the time sure has flown we did unofficial stats today since he doesn t have a dr appt until nine months he weighed 18 lbs even and was 26 75 inches long so he s roughly 40 in both categories he has a huge list of food he s eating he s really taken to it and likes to be a big boy he s crawling and gets around the room very fast he s also very vocal there are two teeth right now but i m pretty certain at least one more is going to pop out in the next few days he looks like he s about to get a top front tooth we re still waiting we called again today and left a message asking if there was anything we needed to do we didn t hear back hopefully we will soon we were hoping for a july finalization day but it looks like it s going to be august or later now ah well it s out of our hands and there is nothing we can do the love we have as a family though it s wonderful we are so blessed to have this child he truly is a special little boy and we couldn t imagine life without him posted by owl gal liz at 9 11 pm 1 comment wednesday july 23 2008 nothing new we are still here in the waiting game hopefully we ll hear something soon i m going to call the lawyer s office again today for an update we re ready to get this finalization over with and move on in other news we have a crawler and we have 2 teeth this past week was a very big one with crawling teething and many more developmental milestones it was like all of a sudden boom there he goes posted by owl gal liz at 8 30 am no comments wednesday july 09 2008 one step closer mark and i took a trip to the lawyer s office yesterday and dropped off the fingerprints the secretary was so happy so see us she loves mark and the feeling is mutual he snuggled right up to her and just gave her the largest smiles it was so cute to see as for updates we re waiting for mark s lawyer s report our lawyer needs to find out if we need another criminal check we had one when we did the icpc and then we should be able to get a date from the judge now things change all the time so who knows but we sure are hoping we can wrap this up soon posted by owl gal liz at 7 52 pm 1 comment older posts home subscribe to posts atom mike and liz adopt this is our adoption blog we will chronicle the steps share the joy the heartache and the wait as we build our family through domestic adoption mike and liz adopt this is our adoption blog we will chronicle the steps share the joy the heartache and the wait as we build our family through domestic adoption about me owl gal liz texas united states wife mommy small business owner are just a few of my many job functions 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