I realize that's it's been since July that I've updated, and we've done a lot, so I figured one MASSIVE update on the Ramsour household will catch us up. :)
Here we go!
Bill: Loves his new job at Multimedia Games (started in May 2011). He has already gotten to go to two conferences (one of them in Vegas, poor guy) and has already pitched a couple game ideas for design. Not a huge fan of the commute, but otherwise really happy!
Jessica: Started my 7th year of teaching Kindergarten, and am still loving it! It's exhausting to say the least, but the reward is worth it! I've got 21 rambunctious 5-6 year olds, 2 of which have autism, so needless to say, I've got my hands full! I'm learning a TON, especially from my students with autism! They are amazing!! We just got a visit from my dad and step-mom from Australia, which was wonderful, but too quick. I'll send a separate post with those pics! :)
Isaac: WOW...where to start?! We've had quite a few firsts for our little man since the last update. He officially started school this fall at my school (right next door to my classroom!) in a PreK class for teachers' children and children with special needs. The idea is that the teachers' children are role models and examples for the students with special needs to follow. His class is also Bilingual, so he's picking up a good deal of Spanish too! He LOVES school, and is extremely upset with me when I pick him up on a daily basis. :) I count my blessings though, because I'd rather fight him to leave school than to get him to school. Last week he also went on his first field trip! His class went to the Elgin Christmas Tree Farm to visit their Pumpkin Patch. Mommy and Daddy got to go with him too! It was weird for me to go as a parent and not the teacher....not that I even really lose my "teacher hat." The kids learned all about pumpkins, took a hay ride, decorated pumpkins, and pet animals. Isaac also had his first ride on a SCHOOL BUS!!! :) I think he looked forward to this part more than any other part of the whole trip at first!
Isaac's first day of school
Isaac also started playing soccer this fall for the first time. He's on a small team called the Bulldogs! He's playing in a division for 3-4 year olds, and having blast. He still gets a little bummed when other people score goals instead of him, but we're doing better! We are definitely signing him up for another season in the spring!
Isaac's first soccer game
ADOPTION!!! So as of the last post, we had picked our agency and started paperwork. As of today, we've moved Isaac into a new bedroom, completed the required 30+ hours of training, filled out the mountain of paperwork, gotten our TB tests, had our home inspected by two different people, and gotten CPR/First Aid certified! We completed ALL of the items on the checklist from the agency!! Now all we have to do is have our home study (where the agency comes to our house and interviews us), and then we'll be LICENSED!! We are so excited to have completed this portion of our adoption story. We cannot wait to meet the girl (or siblings) that God has chosen for our family! Right now, we're considering straight adoption (where the child is already legally free to be adopted) and "legal risk" fostering (which means that the biological parents' rights have not yet been terminated, but its likely that they will be). There is no way we would have been able to do this without God, of course, and the amazing friends and family that have supported us every step of the way. There's no way to thank you all enough for what y'all have done for us!!
Whew! I think that's all for now.....
