My sweet babies

The little joys of parenting

I put mousse in Rebekah's hair to make the curls look like curls instead of fuzz. I also put two ponytails in. She looked so cute! I love having a little girl so that I can do her hair.

Finally, a picture of just Mommy and Brigham.

Dressed up after church

(ingnore my bad faces, it's hard to tell exactly when the camera is going to take the picture.)

Brigham and Rebekah love their Daddy so much they try to climb the gate to our bedroom while he's working on homework so that they can be with him. Do you see Brigham's foot? He's getting close! Rebekah has found the bathroom drawer and is getting into Mommy's hair dryer.

Brigham saw Sister getting into the drawer and thought he'd try it out too.

Then they teamed up.

First bath in their new home. Luckily it went well. If there's one thing this Mommy isn't experienced in when it comes to taking care of children, it's bath time. (I never bathed my child care children.) They loved the bath, though!

Last night was their first night in our home. That didn't go as well as everything has been going, especially for Brigham. Rebekah fell asleep fairly quickly around 8:30. SHe slept until about 2:00 and then was up for a while (Seems she was a little scared.) We finally got her back to sleep around 3:30am and she slept until 7:00. So, that wasn't too bad for a first night in a strange place. These children have been sleeping in their foster parents' bed at night, and our caseworker told us they couldn't sleep with us. So, they are going to have a hard time transitioning into a new home with new parents and having to sleep alone. Brigham was rocked to sleep by about 8:45 but, when we laid him in bed he woke up. He was scared and wouldn't sleep. At 9:40 I just climbed into his twin bed with him and he fell asleep pretty quick. But, he woke up again at midnight. I finally got him back to sleep at 1:45 and he slept until about 3:30. So, as you can see, I played tag team most of the night. Since the children were up at different times. Timothy helped get Rebekah to sleep after I had tried for 45 minutes, so I got a little rest. I was also able to sleep a bit between 4:00 and 6:00. Although it wasn't very deep as Brigham was tossing and turning the whole time. Needless to say, Timothy and I are very tired. But, we'll get used to it. We just hope we can get the children to sleep better before the baby joins our family!We found out that Baby Hyrum will be joining us sooner than we thought. He's going to start visits with us next week and on February 10th is his adoption committee. We will be the only family at the committee, so unless the committee has a major problem with us, he'll be ours. He will probably move in permanently between the 10th - 12th. His caseworker and attorney want him settled in our home before the trial on February 25th. This is the trial where they will hopefully be terminating the birth parents' parental rights for all three children.

Illness

Brigham's been ill with a fever and he threw-up last night and this morning. So, he's been cranky. But, he got feeling better for a little while today and was running around with Rebekah. He just wanted "Dada" to hold him, though. That's got to be so hard on a little fellow to be sick in the middle of this stressful time for him. We hope he's feeling better by tomorrow so we can go to sacrament meeting, but he won't be going to nursery at church. That will have to wait another week.

On a more positive note, Rebekah didn't want to leave today when her foster parents came to pick her up. She threw a fit and wanted Timothy to hold her. Yeah! That's our goal is to have the children wanting to be here more than they want to be at their foster home. Brigham didn't want to go back to the foster home on Wednesday and Thursday, but since then he's been sick and just wants his familiar people.

Yesterday afternoon I got to go over and hold my Baby Hyrum. It seems every time I see him at his foster home he poops, eats, and then falls asleep in my arms. (I guess that's really all babies know how to do, but it's funny that he's been messing his diaper each time right as I get there.) It's been good to change my baby's diaper a few times.