Mother of the Year? Me? Really?

For some strange reason last week William decided to watch Blues Clues again...something that he has not done in quite some while.  Will loves TV and the computer....and Youtube naturally gives you that combination.  Today, while I was getting dressed, he asked me if he could use my computer.  Of course I said yes....A little while later I walked in on him watching this!  And apparantly he had seen it before because he said, "mom, you have to see it when Blue shoots herself, it is Sooooo funny"....disturbed?  yep!  Mother of the Year? Not So Much...

WOW~

William.....12-10-2003....12-10-2008...GOTCHA!

has been home 5 years TODAY at 4:55PM!  In adoption it is commonly referred to as his "gotcha" day.  This was a picture of us at the airport....look at that sweet, sweet boy!  I cannot believe it has been 5 years.  Where did the time go?  I am so very grateful to have him in my life, well in all of OUR lives.  He is simply a sweet, hugging, Wii playing, LOVING, drawing, laughing, goofy, movie memorizing,  picture taking, compassioniate, tooth knocker outter, did i mention LOVING...kid you will ever meet.  He is a constant reminder of unconditional love, what it is and how AWESOME it is.  

It is often surreal to think that this little boy was born so far away that I first saw on this website  is now here with us, happy and HEALTHY making our lives better every day.  I am so thankful to his birthmother for giving us this precious gift.  I hope to meet her face to face one day and express my gratitude to her. I am sure she thinks about him often and wonders where he is and how he is doing.  In one word...GREAT!  I am very thankful to Harry and Bertha Holt for having the foresight into International adoptions and fighting against sometimes seemingly impossible odds and ignorance.  I am very grateful to the staff at Seoul National Childrens Hospital.Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU for taking care of my sick little boy and patching his little heart, you patched more than one that day :)

There could not have been a better fit to our family.  EVER!! He fits in perfectly with his sisters....and is oddly enough a combination of both of them.  (all the GOOD qualities of course:) I often claim that it must be through Osmosis but I suppose someone greater than us maybe knows what he is doing!  

I love you very much Will, you are the single best Christmas present ever to be received and it will NEVER be topped again!

The model....

William did a photoshoot for Sams Club.  In ran in the Thanksgiving "black friday" add!  He was not too impressed but his oldest sister, Emily was sure jealous.  She gets the "oh blonde hair, blue eyes...NOT so much".  It seems "they" need boys and ethnic/dark haired kiddos.  So an asian boy, right on.  I was oblivious to all that, but now see that companies are trying to seem more rounded...odd the things you don't notice until it is brought to your attention.  Anyhoo, he is darn cute isn't he....his sisters too....even with thier blonde hair and blue eyes!

Fort worth zoo

I got the honor of hanging out with some very cool kids at the zoo!  William and the kindergarten class!  Let me just say, boys and girls are DIFFERENT!  neither one better than the other, just different.  We spent LOTS of time in the herpatorium...which is a first for me and they were digging the venomous snakes!  ha....and of course the zoo has penguins now for a bit, so that was way cool!  and I will be glad when they get finished with the new 30,000 sq foot herpatorium...that is gonna be C-R-A-Z-Y!!!  oh and there are 4 new lion cubs....so, so, so dang cute!

Lunch anyone?

When I opened Wills lunchbox after school today...this is what i found!  hungry?  I ask him if he put the jello back in his lunchbox opened and he said yes, he did and that he was saving it for later....only not so much!  

THAT BOY!

yesterday while Emily was at piano, grace, will and i headed over to sprouts to grab some fruits and veggies...will LOVES to touch everything in site...especially things that "break"!  of course this was no exception....he likes to run his hands down the cans and jars like you would a keyboard....ok for cans, NOT ok for jars....he did it to the spaghetti sauce, "No WILL don't do that", over in the grapefuits...touch, touch, touch..."WILL, NO SIR"...while we were checking out, there is salsa stacked to high for salsa to be stacked.  "WILL!  Do not touch anything else, if you do you will be grounded!"  on the WAY OUT THE DOOR there are some sorta bottles of lemonade or some healthy for you breakable crap, and again..he just cannot help himself....down the bottles go his hands.  I just STOP..."William, what did I just say to you?  Not to touch anything right?  You are grounded from your DS"...then he chimes in "and the computer too for 2 days? I know MOM!!!" (it would appear he has heard this before)....he growls at me and says between clenched teeth..."you make me so mad sometimes, YOU are grounded from your PHONE...so there!"...WOW...he really nailed that one :)  Damn funny kid!  but yes, he is grounded...

This picture was early 2003, just a month or two after Will came home!  look at those stinkin cheeks!!!!

Halloween!!

yeah, it was halloween and the kids and I apparantly really like black..who knew?    I did not realize that we were all in black until someone made a comment about it....HELLO....duh!  anyhoo, emily's hair was suppose to be purple, the top of the ozone unfriendly can said so...wrong!  I really wanted to be a grandma...got the moumou, short stockings, glasses, wig and all...but got outvoted by the other two witches.  the boy you ask?  NOT a warlock...duh!  how many warlocks pull rabbits out of their hats people?  He was a magician...yet again, duh!

It was fun and it was FRIDAY night!  thank goodness.....

we have candy, A LOT of candy, I am so sick of candy...and cannot believe i just wrote that....I realize that I have NO self control!  i always suspected, but now it is blatantly obvious!  

I am still trying to figure this blogger deal out, so forgive me. I DO NOT and WILL NOT re-read and make corrections to these posts...I like them in all their original form!  and i am too lazy to give a damn! i am going to play around with it for a while before letting folks know it is here and available for them to view on an hourly basis :)  ha....in the meantime, i am writing to myself!  And am sorta digging it!  it is kinda like "the other me"....hummmm!!!  and yes i love .... and !!! and :) and  ;p~