Busy day

Whew! What a busy day today. It started at 9:30 this morning when Alex had his monthly ECI (Early Childhood Intervention) visit for speech. While the therapist was still here my dad came over. That got the boys really excited. When our session was over we loaded up in the car and headed out to do new house stuff. Even though Chris is still gone I met with the decorator and picked our shingle color and trim color. We also narrowed down our stucco color although I will not decided that without Chris. I also took dad to see the house. He hadn't been there since before the frame went up so there was alot for him to see. To me, nothing much changed other than two bathtubs being installed.

Shortly after we got home it was time for me to leave again. The whole reason that my dad came over was to babysit the boys in the evening so I could go to a meeting. I have recently become a board member of our local FRUA (Families for Russian and Ukrainian Adoptions) chapter and this was the first meeting that I've been too. I missed what should have been my first one when we closed on the house. The meeting lasted almost two hours (longer than I thought it was going to) and when I walked in the door at 9 pm I heard my dad telling the boys "O.K. you're going to bed!" He didn't even know I walked in the door. They were very rowdy for him. Alex was wearing a pajama top that belonged to Zachary because he kept telling dad that it was his even though dad could tell it was too little. They had only short naps in the car today so that was probably part of it. I put the boys to bed but they were not happy about it. They wanted to stay up with their Papa. Dad wasn't sure if he was going to spend the night or not but since I got home so late he decided to stay. Well, that and the fact that he could watch the Cowboy game on cable!