How The Bush Grows

I wanted to take a quick minute and wish her a happy mother’s day, a very special day considering the long and bumpy road it has taken to get to this point. Over the past 5 years (since we decided to try and grow a family) I have seen a young woman turn into one heck of a mature mother. I was never really worried that she wouldn’t have the ability and love capacity to take care of a child. My main concern was if she could make up for my serious deficiencies in those departments. In just a few weeks we will have had our sweet Zoey for a year; we travelled to Korea as a scared couple and left as a scared husband and a super-strong wife/mom.

The last twelve months have had their ups and downs with Zoey, saying it has been easy would be a cop-out and only needed if I was writing a fairy-tale novel. Thankfully I had standing next to me the best woman that I could ever hope to help raise my child. She is strong, independent, brave, and every other adjective that I could think of to describe a great mother. Growing up I loved my Mom deeply, she was there for me through everything and supported me through the good and the bad. Even though Zoey has yet to reach age two I see those characteristics in Lauren. She has been a great Mom and will be a great Mom until time ends; some people think there is a difference in the relationship and love between adopted children and biological ones, what Lauren has shown me these past months gives me the right to debate that fact with anyone, anywhere (feel free to send me an e-mail). And husbands out there, if you think life would be somehow easier raising those children (child) without your female counterpart, think again.

Lauren, I love you, we love you, you’re a great Mom and Wife – Eric and Zoey.

We started off this week by having Hannah over to play again. Zoey LOVES her bff Hannah and they had the best time playing together. We are just so lucky to have found Liz and Hannah and become such good friends with them. There are times when I am questioning some of my parenting moves but then I will find out Liz and Hannah are in the same boat and it makes me feel SO much better! All adoptive parents should have a friend like this!

This week we also had some major storms coming through so after work on Friday Zoey and I headed on over to my parents house since Eric was still out of town. Just in case something happened we would be somewhere with a basement and I would have a man around to dig us out of the rubble! Can you tell I am a little paranoid of storms now? But luckily we were very fortunate and the storms didn’t hit Birmingham like other parts of the US. So we ended up having a nice evening playing outside with my parents. But later that night Eric’s was finally home and of course on the way home from the airport we got caught in a really fast hail storm but thank goodness Eric’s car didn’t get ruined from the hail too since my car already is from previous storms! That was Zoey’s first hail experience and she loved it…she really liked playing in it when we got home too.

A big milestone around here happened this week. After months and months of trying and hours and hours of frustration and tears Zoey finally figured out how to put her shoe on by herself! That was a super huge deal to her so of course we made it a big deal with pictures, cheers, etc! It was too cute!

This weekend I also wanted to take some March pictures so we headed on out to a park in Trussville where I knew they had clovers to have Z a little mini photo shoot. I just loved the way they turned out and glad I have another months theme shoot checked off my list. You see I have this frame in my living room where I change the picture each month. I want to do this for this entire calendar year and then reuse these pics of her every year. My mom sort of did this growing up. She had several seasonal pictures in frames throughout the house and would switch them out with the holidays with our baby “christmas or easter” pics etc. And I loved seeing the pics displayed from when we were little so I hope Zoey enjoys them as much as I know I will!

This weekend my bff Dana was amazing again and got us tickets to see the off broadway production of Wicked! We had the best time getting to see this play while Eric kept Zoey.

That pretty much sums up our week other than more work and school! I hope all of you had a good week too!

So this is why your week in review post is late! We have been busy working away on this new blog. We had to move blogs due to iWeb closing this year. But after hours and hours and hours of copy and pasting we finally have everything moved over!

I think this blog will be much easier for all of you to use. Here are some of the new features…

• Sign up for email alerts of new blog posts in the upper right hand corner.
• Commenting should be much easier since you can sign in via wordpress, twitter or facebook to comment.
• And this should fix the images covering up type situation that happened with the old blog.
• You can also search by categories and tags.

There are lots of other features I am still discovering and will get up and going soon.

Thanks again for following our blog! We look forward to keeping in touch with all of you…

So one of the morning routines around the house is to watch Korean videos each morning in bed. Most are little snippets I found on youtube of kids shows or Korean music videos. But this is Zoey’s new favorite one. She is too funny watching it and will watch it over and over! To replay a video on you tube you press the space bar when over. So I guess morning after morning she has seen me do this. And I just happened to catch our smart little booger on video this morning when I was filming her just to capture her dancing and her love for the song so when it was over and her cute little pointer finger reached out and pressed the space bar I was SO impressed! She is her daddy’s little techy for sure!

Here are the videos to enjoy!

Zoey Watching the Tadpole Song:

Korean Tadpole Song:

English Tadpole Song:

So far operation stay awake has been going good. We went to the last midnight movie that I will probably be going to for a while. Super 8 was a great ET like movie. But I can’t believe I am finally making this long awaited post…Here we go!!! We are on our way to pick up our baby girl! We plan on updating the blog regularly so check back often for updates and pictures/videos as soon as we have them! Please say a prayer for us as we start this journey.

I will leave you with this music video of this song that has been stuck in my head all day. Hopefully it will hold you over till our next post…