Where has the time gone?

Sorry I haven't updated in awhile. Life is pretty different these days with a three year old and eleven year old. I am getting used to the preschool life along with letting some things go I don't have time to do right now. Our house definately doesn't look like it used to.
We continue to be amazed with how easy Hope adjusts to the Blazek household. She goes with the flow and is always ready to do whatever we do. She has become a regular baseball fan for her brother and is now enjoying watching him play basketball as well. While there, as long as she has a ring pop and some toys, she is happy as can be. She told me she is ready to play ball too. We are glad she likes to try new things and wants to do everything her big brother does. Sometimes I don't know however if I like my little girl playing with guns and wrestling, but I'm just so glad she and her brother have so much fun together.
This year Christmas was a blast. Hope really didn't know what to expect but listened and followed along with everything West told her. She got so excited decorating the tree, decorating and eating a gingerbread house, and opening one surprise after another from all of her family. Today she enjoys playing with her new baby doll, Hannah. She changes her, feeds her, reads to her, and gives her kisses. She also received a vacumn from her Nanny and GP and loves to help me clean. Just this week we were running the vacumns at the same time and she told me, "Mom this is so fun." Her personality and sense of humor are such a joy to be around. I am enjoying seeing myself as a little girl in her and through her interests.
We also last month had our final post placement visit with our social worker and finished our last round of paperwork. India requires a photo album after six months so I worked on that before Christmas. We were sad it was our last visit with our social worker as we developed a sweet relationship with her, but look forward to keeping up through email and pictures. God has blessed us so much with new relationships and friends we would have never met through this process.
We are now waiting for approval from Holt International, our adoption agency, to give us the paper work needed to go to court and officially adopt Hope into our family. It's been six months and we must wait this long before it is official. We'll let you all know of that special day coming up.
Thanks again for all of your prayers. We feel so blessed beyond words.