After receiving a few emails today inquiring about an update, I decided that I should probably post one up. I had planned to do it on Monday, but things have been a little hectic, and my camera battery was dead, so... yeah.
Why are we busy? Well, there’s the obvious answer in Boone. He had another vet appointment last week, and he enjoys seeing the vet! I think they enjoy him also because some of them come in for work on their day off just because he’s coming in. He was 22.7 pounds last Saturday. He’s a big boy! We have been mastering two things for the past week... fetch and the leash. Boone and I now play fetch for probably almost an hour collectively throughout the day. We got a rubber ball for him last weekend that is now his new favorite toy. He actually will bring it to me and drop it at my feet when he wants me to play. I love it! We took the advice of friends and vet and also purchased a harness to practice the leash thing. It is making a world of difference. I posted some 12 week old pictures to his album.
Work has picked up for both of us... summer is almost over, and the trees here must be confused because they are already turning red and brown. In August? Insanity... But with the hurricanes and other weather events still happening world wide, who knows what to expect right now? I’m just hoping that we do not have a repeat wind storm this year.
Last week we got to welcome in a new baby... my friend Carleigh had her little boy on Thursday. I got to go see them on Friday - he is very, very cute!
But keeping me up at night now are thoughts of our homestudy. A lot of you know that Andy and I started the adoption process six months ago. The first, long, step in the adoption process is to complete a homestudy. The culmination is a visit by a case worker to your home. During the visit you are interviewed together and separately, and you are showing your home so that the case worker can decide if you and your environment are acceptable for a child. Many of you know that we’ve hit some unexpected bumps during the homestudy process, which were mostly outside of our control, but we are back on track for our home visit next Friday, the 31st. I know that Andy and I are acceptable as parents, and I know that we have a good home. But I just can’t stop obsessing over the fact that one person gets to judge how adequate we are. I’ve come to terms with my fertility and I am excited about adoption. But there are some things that I don’t think I’ll ever completely understand... why does it have to be so difficult to adopt, when so many children either need a home or are in a bad one? I’ll drop my thoughts there...
So, that is what the Kovars have been doing for the last week and a half. Andy is very excited because the “best video game ever” came out yesterday... Bioshock. (He is sitting next to me playing it right now.) Oh, and I finished reading Book 5 of Harry Potter again... finally.... so I can now go see the movie, and I’m onto Book 6. Book 7 is in my bedroom, patiently waiting for me to hurry it up. Between Boone, work and homestudy I just do not have the time for reading that I used to!
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