Spring is Here at Last!!!!

Has it already been a month since I last posted??? Once again I have failed to keep posting on a regular basis. I know that many people still log on to see little Alyssa, so here we are again!!!! We get so busy that time flies by so quickly!!! We are so glad to say that Spring is finally here!!! Today it got to 75 degrees, but guess what...... Tomorrow it will only be a high in the 40's with snow showers.....???? Did I just say snow showers????.... Yes I did!!!! So much for the Spring flowers!!! Let me catch all of you up to speed on little Alyssa.
We celebrated Wade's birthday on March 5, which was really special since it was his first with Alyssa. She helped me make him a cake, and it could not be complete of course without a cat somewhere on it. (I will tell you more about that later). The only cat that I could find for the top of the cake was from a Halloween cupcake topper that I had in the drawer. Alyssa didn't care......it was a cat....that is all that mattered!!! She added all of the sprinkles and the cat!!!
As you can see in the picture, she had such fun making it!!! I am just wondering what I will have in store for my birthday???
Let me tell you a little Alyssa secret. Life is not worth living unless it involves a cat or dog!!!! From the moment she wakes up and then again before she goes to bed she has to make sure that her stuffed dogs and cats are in the correct spots. We love how she says "kitty..kitty". We cannot explain the way that she says it, you would have to hear it for yourself. All that I can say is that it sometimes bring me to tears from laughing at her.
Another love of Alyssa's is clothes and shoes!!! Great......I guess when she becomes a teenager we will have to get 2 more jobs to support her clothes and shoes habit. One day in JCPennys we were shopping in the store and were getting ready to leave, well it just so happens we were passing by the teenage girls clothes section and she decided that she did not want to go.... She had things that SHE wanted to look at!!! She pulled daddy over to this one shirt hanging up, and you will never guess what this shirt said........"Remember me, I am going to be famous"!!!!!
Well that told it all!!!! We knew that she was our little drama queen, but that confirms it. HOLLYWOOD bound we should go!!!! We have high hopes for our daughter, but stardom is probably not one of them. Who knows though.....She loves music, she could be "Your Next American Idol"!!!!! She loves the show!!!! She will clap and yell "YEAHHH", only if they are really good. She definitely has a love for music!!!
As you can see by one of the pictures I posted, she LOVES daddy's boots!!!
She can actually walk in them too!!!! When ever she can, she walks around in either our shoes or our socks, but she refuses to keep her own socks on!!!
As some of you know, Wade has been reduced in hours at work like alot of people in these slow economic times. It has put a tightening on our budget, but it has been somewhat of a good thing for Wade to spend some quality time with his daughter. One day during the work week Alyssa spends with her daddy instead of her grandma. Wade is such a great daddy. She really loves the time that he plays with her!!! She has gotten very close to him in the past month or so. He took her for the very first time to Panther Creek Park a couple of weeks ago. The picture I posted is from the top of the overlook, looking down at the lake. What probably most of you don't know is that is the spot that Wade proposed to me!!!! We also had our first date there!!!
We have very fond memories at that park, and knowing that he took his daughter there for the first time brings tears to my eyes!!! She got to see her first deer there that day, and she got to see her first boat go across the lake from the overlook.
As you can see by the picture of us in our front yard by the Bradford Pear tree, spring is in bloom!!! We had Lori take this picture so that we could use it for our 6 month Post Placement assignment. Yes, I said 6 months!!! Under the guidelines from our agency and from Russia, we have to complete a post placement visit for them about Alyssa at 6 months, 12 months, 24 months and 36 months. We have a social worker from America World come to our home and visit with our new formed family. They check and see how Alyssa is doing, and see how our family is adjusting. We just had our 6 month Post Placement visit on Friday April 3rd. It went really well!!! She said that Alyssa is bonding beautifully, and that our family is doing great!!! We have to have this report turned in to Russia by May 11th. That will be 6 months from when we were told that we were officially Alyssa's parents!!!!
We look back on the whole adoption experience as an amazing ride!!! We look forward to all of the days ahead, and who knows........ Will we start this ride again????
Maybe!!!! Keep tuned in..... We may decide to adopt again!!!! Talks are in the works.... We believe that Alyssa needs a sibling.......As for now though, we are enjoying every second being the parents of little miss Alyssa.....
Love, Julie