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Thomas has been growing so much lately.  He amazes us with "stories" all the time.....his imagination is huge.  He loves to help around the house with chores, and helping Mommy babysit a little baby.   He's doing well in preschool and making friends there. 

Helping Daddy stack firewood for the winter.  When they were done, the stack was a cord & a half.  Combo of Oak and Pine......ready for winter, now!!
 

Our little yard worker.  Learning how to scrap a hand line.....LOL  Future Hotshot like Daddy??

Helping take care of baby Cameron.  My mom watched Cameron's mom when she was little, now I'm watching her baby. 

Today is our 3 yr. Anniversary when we got that phone call that would forever change our life...

Today is our 3 yr. Anniversary when we got that phone call that would forever change our life...

 

He's Here.....

Yesterday afternoon we recieved a phone call from our Social Worker at 2:30. She had a baby boy (11 months) who needed to be placed immediately. This kind of situation is called concurrent and isn't your normal adoption situation. However, after talking together and writing things down and talking some more, we decided to open our hearts and our home up to love this little boy. His name is Thomas and he is a very cute, happy and healthy little baby. He has his 1st Birthday coming up on Decemberd 8th. So as you can imagine our hearts are filled with so much joy and love for this little guy, for this child we've waited for. He had a diaper bag full of clothes, bottles, etc. And 1 suitcase with some clothes, mostly shorts. I found a longsleeve onsie and some sweatpants and socks. He was very cuddly after we got him changed. He appears to be adjusting well, laughing at the "ogs" (our dogs) and playing with a basket of toys. He loves to play "oo" (boo) and he smiles huge smiles. Yesterday had to be very confusing to him due to the situation (we will keep private), he got his shots, the H1N1 shot and placed in the arms of these people who took him away from his surroundings he'd been at for 24 hours......US!! We picked him up around 5:30 down in San Diego at the Polinsky center. What a day!!
Last night, neither one of us wanted to put him down to sleep. We wanted to hold him, feel him breathe on our chests, watch him and just bask in the moment.
Who knows what could happen with this situation, but as you know we have put this in God's control completely. Definetly like how we pictured it would happen. We had thrown our hands up and started to feel hopeless with the adoption situation . We feel that this child, this situation and this very moment that God wanted us to be available to love and open our arms to this little boy and be his mommy & daddy.
So many questions we have about how to care for a baby......a 11 month old baby. How often do they eat, should he sleep on his back, will we hear him when he wakes up? Oh my goodness........ So we both finally made it to bed after 11:30. Our bodies were tired, but our minds were spinning a mile a minute. I know that I slept good, but lightly. I kept listening for him. So at 5:40 this morning, I heard a cough, so I jumped up out of bed. Careful not to wake Jim, and rushed into his room (with only a night light on). Our little angel is sleeping peacefully and probably just sneezed or coughed like a big person does. So I am awake and ready to face the day with our son and all the adventures we are going to experience with him.

Please pray that we can be good parents. That we will make the right decisions in raising him up. Pray that God will protect him and place him forever in the right home with the right mommy & daddy........................WITH US!!!

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3 Years

Below is a video from Thomas's Adoption party from last year.  Thought we would share it as tomorrow is the 3rd anniversary when we got the phone call to an answered prayer.

A little conversation

Since Thomas has a big boy bed now, me (or Daddy if he's home) lays next to Thomas as he goes to sleep.  After reading our story and turning out the light tonight, while laying next to him we had a little conversation.  Here's how it went:

Thomas:  "Why are your legs so long?"

Me: "Because I'm a mommy."

T: "Are you an old mommy?"

M: "Yep, I'm an old mommy. Okay time to go to sleep.  I love you."

T:  "I love you, too Mommy.   (pause)     Are you married to Daddy?"

M: "Yes."

T: "Well I'm gonna get old and married, too."

M: "Oh you are, huh.  Are you going to marry a pretty girl?"

T:  "Yep, I'm gonna marry you cause you're pretty."

M: "Well I'm already married to Daddy, so you can't marry me."

T: "Well Grandma is married to Papa, Daddy is married to you and I'm gonna marry you, too.  We can all be old and married as a family."

M: "Well you have to marry another girl."

T: "But I love you.      (pause)       When I get old like Daddy I'm gonna grow a BIG beard (laughs that little boy chuckle) and never trim it.  And maybe I can grow a moustache like Daddy and look like a different man.  You know when Daddy trims his moustache off he looks like a different Daddy.  I'm not going to do that.  When I get old and have a moustache maybe I can work with Daddy.  Mommy, I love my Daddy."

M: "I know and Daddy loves you.  You are so lucky because you have a  Mommy and a Daddy who love you."

T: "Are you going to love me when I'm old like Daddy?"

M: "Yes I will love you when you're old like Daddy."

T: "Mommy I think I'm tired now."

M: "Okay well let's go to sleep now.  Close your eyes."     (pause)

T:  sleeping and snoring lightly

It's moments like this that I kept thinking while we were talking that I'd like to freeze in my head.  It's things like this that make being a mom the best thing in the world!!  Not only am I lucky to have a precious little son, but I'm married to his old Daddy, too.

Halloween 2012

This year our Halloween was a little different than planned.  Thomas dressed up as Super Why, Jim was going to be the big bad wolf (dressed like Grandma) and I was going to dress as Little Red Riding Hood.  Well last night Jim and his Hotshot crew got ordered by FEMA to Superstorm Sandy on the East coast.  They are helping crews with the cleanup from the storm.  So only Thomas got dressed up.  Thomas & I walked Main Street with our friends Mary & Cameron Martineau.  We found Daddy's "boss" Smokey Bear handing out candy to the kids. 



Thomas & "Daddy's Boss - Smokey Bear"

Thomas & Cameron

   

Our little boy is growing up

It's official, our little boy is growing up!!  

He's growing out of his toddler bed and we got a good buy from a friend.  Thomas is so excited to be a really big boy, now.  Kind of sad, for us as parents as we look at the little toddler bed on the floor next to this big boy bed.  What an exciting time for Thomas to move up to a big bed.  The bottom part pulls out as a trundle, but we have to get a mattress for it.  So right now, it's just going to be used to store extra blankets .  

 

 

Jim said to me last night "it's only a matter of time before he walks out of his room to ask for the car keys".  They grow up so fast!!!

Papa and Thomas make front page

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                Pick of the Patch 2012 – And the Winners Are . . .

Photos by Carol and Darrel Kinney

By Tracy Rolling - Ramona Home Journal • Mon, Oct 01, 2012

Taking third place was a 353-pound pumpkin grown by Ronald Serabia and his young grandson Thomas Huston. Adjacent to a garden filled with sweet corn, beans, peppers and zucchini, his giant pumpkins rested on six feet of topsoil and were quenched by well water. 

"Everything grows well on the property, and we don’t have to worry about a water bill,” said Serabia, explaining the semi-drip system he uses in conjunction with soaker hoses and five feet of rope. 

He tells how each time his grandson visited, he would dig in the dirt. Then he read about the Ramona Home Journal pumpkin contest and planted a few seeds a couple years ago. 

"The biggest pumpkin we grew our first year was 140 pounds,” he said. He saved seeds from that batch, and this year when Thomas asked, "Papa, we gonna plant big pumpkins again?” Serabia couldn’t resist. 

He looked online, went to the library and studied how to grow the mammoth pumpkins. "It was only by chance it got that big and didn’t rot,” he said, adding that the recent rains and hot weather gave them a run for their money.

 
Serabia plans on sharing his winnings with Thomas, and says besides the luck of the draw, he didn’t use any artificial stuff. He got caterpillars, praying mantises and ladybugs to help manage the bugs.

"Growing pumpkins has been a great blessing to our family,” he added. "Just like our little grandson Thomas.”