Wow! Who knew it had been so long since I posted anything?!  Well, it doesn't help that I was sick for almost 2 months and did not have the energy for a while to do anything. The first 4 weeks were the worst, I had bronchitis (though I really think I had pneumonia and the urgent care nurse practitioner didn't realize it). By week 5 I knew I needed to get into my regular doctors office and I did during week 6, and she gave me a second round of antibiotics and medication. I now think I am fully over it. YAY! 

During those 6-8 weeks, I have been incredibly busy too!!!! I worked OT during that time, which probably didn't help the illness, but it did add to the time off I'll have with baby 2 when he comes home......Oh yeah, that's right, we have another boy!!!!  We received a call 10/05/12 that we were matched with a 16 month old baby boy, with the chubbiest of cheeks:)  We were SOOOOOOOO happy!  We have really been trying to teach Owen about being a big brother. He does ask sometimes what his brother is doing...which is hard to explain to a 2.5 yr old.

Unfortunately, we have no dates yet of when we are traveling to meet this little guy. I'm SOOOOOO anxious to get him in my arms and hear him laugh!  We have been working on putting together more paperwork for our first trip, and trying to just keep focused and busy. But it's really hard not to worry about when we'll get over there.

Owen of course does his best to keep our minds occupied though, LOL!  He continues to be the best source of laughter for us (although I have to say Andy is not too far behind in that, LOL). Owen has been having more "conversations" with us, and still says the funniest things. Like tonight, he and I met my friend and her 2 kids at a nursing home to go trick or treating. I've wanted to take him to do that because when I was a kid, my parents took us and I think it's very beneficial for all involved. While we were on the way there, he talked non stop!  He was pretty good about saying, "trick or treat," "thank you," and "Happy Halloween." every time we made a "stop." Although I do think he was the liveliest kid there (next to his friend Emily;)) They were the life of our group I think;)  We stopped for dinner with them on the way home, and the whole way there he kept saying, "mommy, Emily, Kelli, Dean, and Anthony doing?" "Where are they?" He asked like 50 times, and I finally said, you know what Owen, I'm not going to answer this time, becuase I already told you they are in the car in front of us.  He said, "No mommy, I'm talking to my own self." and then proceeded to ask himself what they were doing. LOL!  I took him potty while we were there, (Oh yeah, we potty trained Owen the first weekend in September too....), and afterwards, he ran out and made sure everyone knew he had peed in the potty.  He likes to announce it every time! HA!

He's done really well with the potty training. After several months of taking him with his diapers, we decided to stop cold turkey and switch right to big boy underpants. It took 4 days, and in just under 2 months, he's only had maybe 3 days with accidents, I think that's awesome:)! 

Well, I'm going to try and do better about posting in the future, but for now, I have got to get some rest. Please continue to keep us in your prayers as we continue to wait to meet our new family member and the process to bring him home!