developments-it happens SO FAST!

sweet pea now LOVES to set the table. we have a video and it's really too cute, but you can see her face in a couple spots AND it's too big for blogger. she KILLS me with her cuteness. i use a small fork and paul uses a big fork. so when she sets the table she usually put's the big fork at paul's chair and the little fork at my chair and then her toddler fork at her place. SO cute.

on saturday paul's parents were up for his birthday and paul was holding peanut and i bent over and started cooing and talking to him and he turned his face and eyes to me and smiled a tiny bit. he's already recognizing my voice! i was so thrilled! he loves me. i just know it. we will get to give him a middle name and we will call him by that name. i know i'm not supposed to but sometimes i call him by that name now. i'm not ready to come out of the closet on it just yet. we're still debating, but it's pretty much 99% decided. it's just that tiny 1% that makes us never settle into the prospect that eventually he WILL be ours that keeps us from committing all the way. continue praying for that situation. the family member that has stepped forward, i sort of found out today, is kind of hard to get ahold of. pray that continues or makes itself evident early on in the case that that person won't be an option. all i have is hope at this point.