and so i return....

another cute bath shot!












future fisher-woman.....i predict mornings in the river
with her dad!

















getting ready for a neighborhood grill-out.














g's favorite spot to watch me get ready in the morning.













some early morning peek-a-boo.




















love this shot of my mom reading to georgia
at the cottage.....early morning light is fantastic!















i really have no good reason for my apparent hiatus from blogging....just life i suppose. however, i thought that georgia turning six months old was as good a reason as any to resume. you see....in the world of domestic adoptions six months is a milestone. it marks the end of our supervision period. our social worker can now file a report with the state where she recommends georgia's permanent placement in our home and that the adoption be finalized--thus officially making her "georgia elyse terryn."


it's hard to believe that six months have come and gone. i think anyone with a six month old, 1 year old, 10 year old, 20 year old, and as my mom has, a 32 year old feels this way. i love to look at pictures of her from the week we brought her home and then where she is right now. how amazing that the little girl we brought home on march 22nd who couldn't do anything can now smile, laugh so hard at her daddy i think she's going to start crying, sit up on her own, grab for toys, hold a bottle on her own, devour baby food, and so much more. georgia is amazing.

i was reminded today how amazing i think this whole journey has been. i was watching the today show detail a very strange story in which a couple from michigan had frozen embryos left over from a past fertility treatment. those embryos, unbeknownst to anyone, were implanted into another woman. the mistake was not caught until about fourteen weeks ago....the baby is due in two. the mistake is now evident and both families are working through how to deal with this terrible mistake. obviously, the biological parents will bring the baby home; it's a little boy. however, the "birth" mom so-to-speak will be left in pieces, not bringing home a baby that she thought was hers.


it's not an adoption story. but it's so similar. one lady will get the baby she's wanted. one lady will go home with nothing. i don't think the today show did a good job of capturing her story. she is the hero in this story. she will suffer the most. when i hear things like this i am just constantly reminded how indebted i am to our birth parents. they gave us a gift that we couldn't even comprehend how much we'd love. i mean, sure, every parent knows they're going to love their child beyond words, but do they really know? i don't think they really do. i know i didn't. and i know that birth moms don't know how hard it's really going to be to hand over that baby. i know georgia's didn't until she actually did it. until she put georgia in her car seat in the hosptial room, kissed her goodbye, and completely entrusted her to chris and i--that's when she knew how hard it was going to be.


we are so grateful for georgia. we love her more than anything in the world. she's changed our lives forever. she's the best thing we've ever done. the best.