Three kids 2 and under, insanity?

 So Giggles spent her first night last night so she is officially in our home as of yesterday. Mom and Grandma came over this morning and they'll come back with dad this afternoon to take her for a walk while I go get the big kiddlets. So far Giggles is doing pretty well, she cried last night and tried to go to the door so she could go home but nothing too drastic. Took a little more than half an hour for her to go to sleep. Pretty normal. Today when mom and grandma came over she had a couple of meltdown temper tantrums but again, that's expected.
  Yesterday Giggle's social worker called, would I be interested in another baby? She is about 17 months old and cute as can be. Then she realized I had two 2 year olds but I still said yes. Especially once she told me that this maybe possibly could be an adoptive placement. I won't meet her until tomorrow but I'm so excited.
 The fact that I'm excited leads me to wonder if I'm insane.

Captain's Birthday

 So the Captain is now 5, he had a great birthday and got his Nintendo DS. He opted for the big present no party deal so we went to round table as a family and just kind of relaxed. The next day I made chocolate dipped oreos for him to take to school. 

Step 1. Gather supplies 

Step 2. Music :)

Step 3. Dip the sticks in chocolate BEFORE sticking the stick into the oreo. This is a very important step

Step 4. Stick the dipped stick into the oreo. Double stuffed works best. After you stick them in refrigerate and they'll stay on the sticks better 

Step 5. Pull thoroughly chilled oreos out of the fridge and dip them in melted chocolate. I used a knife to smooth the chocolate and Hubby got me a cake pop stand. Non skid underneath made it work much better. 

Helpful hint. Have a piece of aluminum foil to toss mistakes or broken cookies onto. Dispose of those by eating so you leave no trace for the children or husband to find. They'll think you're amazing and made no mistakes ;)

Step 6. After they harden I stick them in the fridge for a big just so they're completely hard. Then you decorate. In this case they were supposed to look like Captain America's shield. Stars didn't come out very well but really are kindergartners going to care?

Step 7. Put them in cute baggies so littles can take them home instead of driving the teacher crazy.

Blowing off the dust

 So I haven't posted for awhile but that's probably ok since I don't think anyone actually reads this or follows me. I have good news today! Yesterday our local the manager of our DCFS office called and asked if I could do her a favor. Wow that worried me, I was thinking oh no a big sibling set that we're not licensed for or extreme disabilities or something like that. Nope nothing like that, would I mind a 2 year old girl for a couple of months while her parents wait for an ICPC? (Yes I realize they're not her biological parents but they've had her since she was tiny and really they are her parents) I asked if she had any issues or special need still trying to find out where this favor came in. Nope no real issues some very minor things same as with Moose. Of course I said yes and the whole family came over today.
 I spent all last night worrying about making a good impression and what if they didn't like me and all sorts of crazy stuff. Well they got here and the family was great. The little girl is so CUTE and her and Moose got along really well. They actually look pretty similar and could pass as twins. So all the minions played while the adults got a chance to talk and get to know each other. Now we'll get to do a transition for Giggles where she'll get to come over and play while her house is being packed up and some overnights where her parents come after she's been awake for a bit until they have to leave. So hard for them but hopefully paperwork will go fast, either way I think Giggles will be so much fun.
  So what have we been doing while we've been empty? Experimenting with edible play doughs! This one is oatmeal, flour, peanut butter, sugar, cornstarch and cinnamon. Each boy got a pinch of sugar, pinch of cinnamon and raisins to mix in and 'make cookies'. I still think it was too goopy.

Oh and we weren't chosen for the two girls, I'm ok with it now. For awhile though I was sad.

News maybe?

Well today or tomorrow we should hear back on the two sisters we put in for almost 3 months ago. Well let me explain a little. I sent in the inquiry and homestudy 3 months ago, I received an email from the case worker letting me know she got my information and if I had any questions I could call or email her (she gave me her phone and extension number). Almost 3 weeks later I was wondering what happened since we hadn't heard anything yet so I called her. She said matching was in another couple days and she assured me she would email me even if we weren't chosen. A couple days later I got an email saying they chose someone else.
 A couple of weeks later I noticed they were back up on the site. I immediately called the social worker (bet she's regretting giving me her number now) and asked if it was a mistake that they were relisted or if they were back up. She said the other family backed out because they couldn't handle the girl's needs but she still had my homestudy and had already put it in the file for them. Three weeks later I still hadn't heard anything so I called again because I'm annoying like that. She remembered me (yay! right that's good?) and told me they just got a matching date for the end of August. Now to me end of August is anytime after the 15th and yet here it is the 30th and still no news. I figure if I don't get a call by tomorrow at 3 (5 pm there) then that means I wasn't chosen and will receive and email letting me know that in the next few days after. So now I am anxiously checking emails and staring at the phone.
 On a side note we STILL don't have any foster placements which is weird. I even mentioned to our licensing worker that we hadn't had any calls. She said thats because they've only been taking in teens this week. That's one of the reason I love our licensing worker, she gives me information even when I just hint that I want more information. I think we'll make her cookies at Christmas time. She's my favorite.

Shameless promotion

 Well today I am promoting my favorite father in law's book. (Yes I know I only have one but he's my favorite of all the father in law's ever because my husbands parents are AMAZING. No they don't read my blog but they are great. Ok ok I'll stop talking in parenthesis) So they book I'm talking about is called Human Interference. Its set just a little bit in the future and its about an air traffic controller (which is surprise surprise both my husband and father in law's career). I didn't think I'd like it I thought it was more of a guy book, you know technology and stuff like that but I ended up really enjoying it. Its set to be released 11-01-2012 and is the perfect stocking stuffer for your husband, my anti reading husband enjoyed it. Oh and the worlds cutest couple is on the front cover ;)

http://humaninterference.com/

Goop and Halloween

 So after school today my kids and I talked at great lengths about what we're going to be for Halloween and how everyone's going to tie their costumes into each others. Why are we planning this? Well because of this conversation.
Legoman "Mom, when's Christmas?"
Me, "Um... in December."
Lego "When's that?"
Me "You know the months just count it- you know what its after Thanksgiving." Because this conversations getting stupid but I kept that part in my head!
Lego "When's Thanksgiving?"
Me "After Halloween."
Lego "Isn't it almost Halloween? I saw the stuff at Wal-mart. We need to start planning now or else we won't have good costumes."
Me "Ok fine, what do you want to be?"
Lego "Thor but I can't because that's what bestfriend is going to be. HEY can we all go as Avengers?"
Me "Sure that'd be cute. Cap already wants to be Captain America so who do you want to be?"
Lego "Ironman and Moose can be Nick Fury or Hawkeye or the Hulk."
Moose "SMASH SMASH HUUUULK"
Me "I think he's decided."
Lego "Yeah and you need to be Black Widow 'cause your the only girl. You're prettier than her but its ok cause its Halloween" Have I mentioned how he just might be my favorite?

 Then Legoman's bestfriend came over and we all played with goop. Easy to make and super fun because its both liquid and solid. Twice as much corn starch as water. If you want to color it put food coloring in the water before you mix in the corn starch.

Chandelier

Ok so I haven't posted pictures of my absolutely and wonderfully girlie room yet. I will but first I found an old chandelier at a garage sale and we've finally gotten around to painting it and putting on the bling. I am so happy with the results.  

Before

Wonderful Hubby painting since I kept getting frustrated with the drips.

After

 Hubby blinded by the camera flash while taking the ugly old light down.

 Hard to tell in the picture but its so sparkly when its on, it looks amazing. Hubby thinks I should start an etsy shop and sell them. You can even see my sparkly walls in this shot. Yes the walls are glittery. 

details :)