7 months old & adoption is finalized!

Christian James Breen is 7 months old as of yesterday.  As of today he has been in our home for 7 months and legally a part of our family!  We had finalization today as my previous post stated.  It was a day filled with lots of joy!

A quick look at his stats.  He is still in the 100th percentile for height and weight - 30 inches long/tall and 23 lbs and 14 oz.  He wears mainly size 18 months clothes.  He is getting a lot more mobile - rolling across the room, spinning around on his belly, reaching and pulling to get what he wants.  He has a strong grip, loves necklaces, glasses, strings on sweatshirts and ties.  He still has 2 teeth, but we can see 6 bulging in his gums.  All Christian's parents want for Christmas are his two front teeth!  He eats many veggies and fruits and cereal, I have yet to buy any pre-made baby food (other than the cereal). Christian sits up very well, as opposed to a month ago when he was quite tipsy!  Christian loves to kick his legs, or slam them down, when laying on his back, he lifts his legs and slams them down together - on the changing table, bath tub...monster splashes.  He is also now doing essentially the same thing with his upper body in the high chair or while sitting on your lap.  Christian is a strong boy.  He has had his 4th ear infection that was just diagnosed on Friday - 5th antibiotic.  He is scheduled to get tubes in his ears on January 4.  We're told we'll have a whole new baby.  I like his smiles, so I hope they don't take those away.  But the poor baby, it's hard to see him in pain.

Here are some images captured from today.  It was a very brief hearing, the boys did great!

We are so very thankful that our attorney was able to get us on the schedule for today and really that the court room & clerk of court was open today, the rest of the court house was not.  This was the only day that we could have finalized in this year.  This means that we should get most of our adoption tax credit stuff on our 2012 taxes and we get to claim a 2nd kid!  In the adoption world, this is huge to get the adoption tax credit.

We are also thankful to our families and friends for supporting us through this adoption roller coaster.  But what we know is that the roller coaster isn't over.  There are growing pains along the way, so we ask for continued prayer on our family.  We know that life is not easy and parenting is a very tough calling, but we see God's hand at work and trust in Him to give us the knowledge and wisdom to deal with what's ahead.

Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!

Finalization!

Hello trusty followers!

This morning we rejoiced in the finalization of Christian James Breen's adoption!  A beautiful gift to us from our Father above.  Of course, this means the months of posts that I haven't published can now be published. However, not so fast.  We're busy, busy, busy (as the Thomas song sings in the background) around our house as some of you know about the devastation that happened in our house earlier this week.  My trusty dad and husband are off buying a new washer and dryer for our house so that hopefully we don't have a flooded home any time again soon  ever.

So, I can't promise I'll do it today, but I'll sure try! :)  We're excited to show off our pride and joy!

Thank you for following us on our adoption journey, we know that however all paperwork is complete and the actual adoption process is complete, the journey of adoption never ends.  There are growing pains along the way, so we ask that you continue to pray for our family as we seek God's will in how to raise our boys.

Merry Christmas!