My Baby Turns Four

Last night was Libby and Nathan's birthday party, or rather, it was Libby's birthday party and Nathan attended it. The cake was a Barbie ballerina chocolate cake that Libby picked out. She was the star of the show. I think poor Nathan ended up taking most of the pictures, too, so he's not even in any of the photos. Libby thoroughly enjoyed her party and all of her gifts. She had a princess, ballerina, bride theme for the whole party and loved every minute of it. She could hardly wait to open her presents. We made her eat some dinner and have her cake first. She had a hard time blowing out her candles, but she got them all eventually. Then she could only eat half of her cake before declaring that she was done with cake and was ready for presents. She got a Disney princess movie from Aunt Joy and Uncle Dan, a Belle costume from Uncle Zack and Uncle Josh, a Barbie wedding dress, Cinderella light-up slippers, tiny mermaid doll, and The Little Mermaid movie from Grandma and Grandpa, and a Barbie bride doll and Barbie floor activity book from Mommy and Daddy. She also got a princess dress-up gown complete with matching Barbie gown made by Nana when they were visiting a few weeks ago (still waiting to get the pictures from Nana's camera). She was ecstatic about each gift as she opened them. The rest of the pictures can be seen on my Picasa page.

And here's a picture of our gorgeous Yaguar resting on the back of the couch after the party last night. He was so cute while he was asleep that I had to take his picture.

In foster parent news, Nathan and I have completed all of our foster parent classes, CPR classes, FBI fingerprinting and background checks, and have passed our home fire inspection! Hooray. We have all had our physicals (both kids are way off the chart for height, FYI) and have filled out reams of paperwork. It's amazing what they make you go through before you can be foster parents! Honestly, I think ALL parents should have to go through this process before having kids - maybe there would be a lot fewer kids in the foster care system! Anyway, we will be starting our home study soon. After another several months of working with our social worker, we should be finished with our home study and will be applying for our license from the state. Once that goes through - we are hoping in the early spring - we will be ready for our first placement at any time! We are really excited to see what happens!