Reid and Stefani Adopt

 Happy Valentine's Day!  Despite the look on Isaac's face in his picture, we ALL had fun.  Since we were still in quarantine, I had the kids decide each on one activity we could do to celebrate it at home to ease the blow of missing out at school.  We played did one activity a day starting on Friday, the day they would all miss their valentine's parties at school.   Isaac chose Conversation Heart Bingo, which was really fun, but it turns out that eating 24 SweeTarts candy hearts in one sitting is too much even for my kids.    Esther chose I Spy Hearts.  She and I made hearts with pictures and sayings and decorations on them and put them up all over the house.  Then I created a list with a whole bunch of these hearts listed.  Then I told them if they found everything on their list they could have their little bag of candy that BFP (Brevard Family Partnership) handed out to us this week for Foster Care Appreciation week.   Jaydon chose marshmallow and toothpick construction,

This year for adoption day, we got to stay home. Yeah!  We usually try and go do something fun as a family, read adoption books, look at the kids' baby books, and have a special treat or dinner.  This year a monkey wrench was thrown into our plans because I tested positive for COVID-19 via a rapid test.  Even though I got a PCR test done an hour later that same day that was negative, the health department insisted my family quarantine.  So here we are enjoying a mini snow cone for adoption day in lieu of our more normal celebration.  We also got Chick-fil-a take out.  Isaac hid some of the adoption important things around the house so we could play "hot/cold" and find them.  Then we were going to talk about them.  None of that happened, so I'm still randomly finding adoption things Isaac hid that we never got to talk about.  I figure that we'll have a bigger celebration soon enough when we add Jaydon officially to our family.  Can't wait!   Esther, Isaac and J

 Martin Luther King Jr. Day was a fun day for our family.  We went biking at Alafia State Park.  They have a system of trails, a playground, and something we didn't expect--awesome branches/vines that grew in such a way that the kids could actually swing on them.  This is the stuff kids' dreams are made of.  We'll just skip the part where I crashed at the very end and tore my shoulder.   Kids ready to go at the trail head map. L-R: Jaydon, Isaac, Esther. Kids hanging out at the playground waiting for us to get our picnic lunch out. Nature's swing set.  I totally would have tried it out myself if I wasn't positive my weight would have ended the fun immediately.