My littlest man

I was a boy mom for almost 12 years before I got my little bonus girl. She is feisty, and bossy, and has every single one of us tied around her little finger. She greets everyone in the morning by either screaming "Noooo!!!" and stiff arming us away from her or by gently tapping each of our noses while trying to sing, "Good morning to you." It really could go either way. She is a complex soul :)

It's no secret that I love doing all the girlie things with her. I love dressing her up, fixing her hair- and adding accessories is almost too much fun. We did family pics this past weekend and I picked out the coordinated color scheme on all 10 of our outfits based on her one hair bow :)

Starting over again with toddlers was never on our radar as we were going through the process of opening our home. In fact I remember talking to a friend who works with adoptions and she knew of 2 young boys who needed an adoptive family but I told her "We just can't go that young. I really want to, but I can't potty train another boy!'  

And then we fell in love with a 1 year old girl. 

My dear friend Tamra was little miss's first foster mom. She took her in as an emergency weekend placement -emphasis on the weekend- which in DHS time turned into 4 months. We had the chance to do several long term babysitting gigs with her during those unplanned four months. Then back in July we found out the judge was requiring little miss to move to a new foster home with space for two so she could be paired with her older brother. 

At the time the only thing we knew about the brother was that he was two years old and the caseworker described him as "energetic." Now energetic to me is a spectrum. It can mean a lot of things.  It can be a compliment like, "Wow you're glowing today, you look so energetic."  Or it could be a warning like, "Hi ,new teacher. This is our son Silas. He is energetic." See what I mean? :)

Unrelated... but also puppies are energetic. 

And I have to post this pic because it's my favorite. 

**Disclaimer: I understand if you can't be friends 

with me anymore now that you know I've watched

 and loved this movie. If it helps I actually took 

Cory's grandmother to see this and cried/laughed 

through the whole thing while she was completely offended. 

But she still loves me, so there. 

Honestly I think I could handle nine puppies better than I could handle two Silases, but we were in too deep and had already fallen in love with the little girl so we put our adoption on hold and said yes to she and her "energetic" brother. 

We've had our new littles about 3 1/2 months now and while it's pretty obvious that I am totally enthralled with having a little girl, this energetic boy (who I would actually never describe that way) totally has my heart. I mean I looove him. 

I love his dimples. I love his grin. I love the way he wanders into our room in the morning and asks "Snuggle Momma?" I love looking up from the kitchen sink and seeing his little legs dangling from the high chair. I don't know how to explain what it is about him that melts me. He is not old enough to really have any individual characteristics that set him apart from others. He's still generic in his personality development. He likes and does all the things that little 2 1/2 year old boys like and do. Give him a ball, a sword, a superhero costume, or a car and he's set. Better yet,  just give him my arms, that's what he likes best. And actually I think all that time he's been in arms is what helped him get close enough to steal my heart. 

All of my older boys have a song.  I don't intentionally seek it out for them- it's just that when they are on my mind and I'm listening to music sometime the lyrics overtake me with emotions for that particular child and that becomes their song. 

It happened this morning with little Mr. 

I don't know what the future holds with him. For right now he is not "adoptable" and I have no inclinations leaning one way or the other about what's going to happen. 

But I do know that every time I hear this song, wether that be 16 years from now when I'm packing him up for college or 3 months from now when I'm packing him up to go home- in my heart this song will only play for him. 

SONGBIRD

For you, there'll be no more crying. 

For you, the sun will be shining. 

And I feel that when I'm with you,

It's alright. I know it's right.

To you, I'll give the world.

To you, I'll never be cold. 

'Cause I feel that when I'm with you, 

It's alright I know it's right. 

And the songbird are singing, like they know the score.

And I love you, I love you, I love you, like never before. 

And I wish you all the love in the world.

But most of all, I wish it from myself. 

And the songbirds are singing, like they know the score. 

And I love you, I love you, I love you like never before.

I love you my littlest man, 

Love Momma