Great News!!!

We just found out that we will be bringing Averi home four days early!!!  On the 21st!!!  The infection wasn't as bad as they thought!!!  We are so happy, excited and grateful!!!

Averi Dalila,day 5!

Okay, so I promise I won't blog about the girls every day!  Only everyday until Averi comes home!  She is doing VERY WELL, the nurses always comment on what a sweet girl she is.  Do they say that to everyone?  Nah, just us.  I used to hear people say that babies change "every day".  I didn't know they meant it literally!  We can actually see a visual change.  Amazing!  She is so tiny and so cute, it was really hard to leave her at the hospital today.  The bonding has begun!!!  We get to take her home the evening of the 25th.  Ten more days!!!

Addison has started bonding as well.  It's so nice to see.  We are sure to give Addison alot of attention, the last thing we want is for her to feel like "second fiddle".  She was giving her kisses and cuddles today.  It's just so damn cute!!!  We've been amazed at Addison's growth too.  She is talking like crazy, speaking in complete sentences, with words she's never used before.  Everyday is something new.  I LOVE it!!!  We're just trying to keep up!!!!!

4th Day of Life

We visited Averi at the Hospital again today, as we plan to do until she is released (on 3-25).  She is doing VERY WELL!  The nurse let Big Sister, Addison hold her.  So precious!!!

BIG NEWS!!!!

As some of you might know; Dwain and I have started the adoption process for a second child.  Sylvia, our social worker, was here on Wednesday March 11th to update our Home Study.  At the end of the "interview" she informed us that the only baby (we are looking for as young a child as possible) she knew about was going to be born in April.  The Biological Mother was going to relinquish the baby at the hospital.  We told Sylvia that we would be interested and asked her to check it out for us.  She called a few hours later, her first words were "Are you sitting down?", and proceeded to tell us that the baby had been born that morning!  That she had given the baby's Social Worker our Home Study, and that we were first in line to adopt the baby!!!  We're Daddies again!!!  We met her at the hospital this afternoon, she's beautiful, alert, and eating really well!  She has an infection, which will keep her in the hospital for 12 more days to complete a course on antibiotics.  Then, we pick her up from the hospital and bring her home!!!  We are naming her Averi.  No middle name yet.  She was born 3-11-09 at approx. 11:30ish., weighing 6 lbs. 9 oz.  We are super excited!  I'll post more pictures when I get them.  Love to all!!!

Spring is Springing

I figured since Gary is laying off the blog, maybe I should step in and try to update things. We have really been enjoying the time together as a family. Addison is as sweet as can be and we are trying to keep up with her energy. March and April are the notification months for preschool admission in the Fall. We found out that we were accepted to EBI in Oakland and Holy Family Day Home in San Francisco. We are waiting on a Montessori program in the city. The final determination will rest on where we decide to live. We have fallen in love with the city again!

So far, we have ferried to Tiburon, trollied to the Embaracadero, Golden Gate parked it (aquarium and playground) and lunched at the Ferry Building. Yesterday we walked across the Golden Gate bridge and went to Coit Tower. It was a truly gorgeous day yesterday! This is why we live in San Francisco.

Addison tried out a gymnastics class today and absolutely loved it. We are trying to keep her as occupied as possible - makes her more compliant!!!!

Other good news is that I should finally be employed next week. Looking forward to my new job. The commute is going to be a BEAR, but I am fortunate to have found this job. The anesthesia jobs have all but disappeared in the Bay Area due to the economy. No one is immune.

Hope this finds you all well.

The blog is suffering!!!  I can't keep up, I just joined Facebook, between that and the blog...  it seems to be too much.  The blog is starting to feel like a "job".  Not a good sign.  Let's see, what interesting things have been going on?  Well, we're trying to get Adds into Pre K.  I've heard how competitive it is in the city, but until you're "in" it you have no idea.  Two words: Waiting List.  We've found a school in Oakland that we really like called, well, EBI for short.  It's a Spanish immersion program.  We really want her to learn a second language.  In Preschool the teachers speak only Spanish to the kids.  Sounds intense to me (I don't speak Spanish), but at this age the kids are like little sponges, they soak up everything.  Apparently they do very well.  We took Addison to her one hour "evaluation" last weekend.  She did well, the teacher said, "Very Independent" as we were leaving.  I took it as a compliment.

Our friend John Paul was it town last weekend.  Addison loves her "Uncle Johnny"!!!  We had alot of fun and alot of Food!!!  Today we went to the Aquarium in Golden Gate Park.  It was Great!!!  Addison loved the Butterflies.  One landed on her shoe.  She was so happy!!!  Other than that, not much is new.  We're just trying to enjoy the Bay Area while Dwain isn't working.  He's getting a little antsy, he'd like to start working sooner than March 2nd., but we're enjoying having him here!

I'm laying in bed catching up on everyone's blogs.  Sounds like everybody is having fun, except me!  I'm still sick!!!  Okay, so, I'm not in bed because I'm sick, I'm just feeling a little lazy today (that's not unusual for me).  Plus, it's rainy and grey outside.  A great day to relax, even if it's only for a couple of hours during Addison's nap time!  As far as my illness, I just have that gross "Typhoid Mary" cough that tastes like I took a shot of bleach (too much info.?),  where everyone slowly moves away from you when they hear it.  I'm trying to get back to the gym, but I don't wanna be hacking up a lung on the treadmill.  And now that we're working out at Gold's Gym in the Castro again, image is everything!!!  It's more than everything!  I feel like I need to be thin and buff BEFORE I go to the gym!!!

Addison is sick too.  She has the same cough that I have.  She also has some kind of eye infection, the poor thing.  She woke up yesterday morning and her eyelashes were crusted together.  She wanted to go on one of the Street Cars that run up and down Market St.  We're always up for giving her a new experience.  The next day we took a Trolley down to the Ferry Building where we looked at all of the goods, from organic honey to exotic house plants.  She loved the tank of live lobsters!  Personally, it made me want to barf.  Anyway, I'm sure I don't have to tell any of you how dirty public transportation is.  Alas, eye infection.  

Don't get me wrong, we're very Happy.  Albeit not very Healthy at the moment, except for Dwain, he never gets sick.  I'm looking forward to stepping out into the world, among the living!  SOON!!!