The Angry Baker: Shiloh

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Monday, June 8, 2009

Loving Our New House Even More

We have access to a pool!!!!!!!!

You have to leave the neighborhood to get it....doesn't make much sense to Rich and myself, but I'm not going to complain because we have a pool!!!! We took Shiloh swimming in it for the first time this weekend and had a blast! She adores the water so much which makes me so thankful for this ability we now have!

Before swimming on Saturday I went to Wal-mart and bought Shiloh a pair of floaties to try to give her more freedom while in the pool. They may have worked, but daddy would not let go of her so we could find out. He said for now we would just use them as an extra precaution while she is in the pool, so when we went back Sunday I didn't even bother with trying to put them on her. Anyway. We had a great weekend and Shiloh had a blast swimming and getting out of the pool and jumping in, getting out of the pool and jumping in, getting out of the pool and jumping in...you get the idea.

Sunday evening we invited our kind of neighbors, Brandon and Bobby, over for dinner since Rich was trying out his new smoker. Dirty Uncle Brandon, as he goes by, and his girlfriend spent the weekend in Savannah where they bought Shiloh a little gift....now she just needs a little motorcycle to ride while wearing it...hmm.

She's putting a sticker on her head because that's where they go, duh!

Thursday, June 4, 2009

Adoption Picture Book

I pulled out a children's adoption book the other day to read to Shiloh for the first time. She wasn't interested but I continued to lay there on the floor and read it to her anyway as she played with her toys. After I finished reading it I realized that, although it's the only adoption book I could find similiar to Shiloh's adoption, it just didn't seem right. It wasn't the message I want to give Shiloh. It was too much. Sure it was a great book. It is about a mother bear and son bear and the son is the mother's "wish come true", which is great, but I guess when I read an "adoption book" to Shiloh I want it to be HER story.

I'm having trouble putting into words what I'm feeling/want to say regarding the above topic...that paragraph is the best I could do....moving on....

I decided today that I am going to make Shiloh her own book about her adoption with her pictures. It's something I've thought of doing since she was born, thanks to a friend of my mom's who adopted. What has always stopped me was the words. First of all, I tend to use way too many words/give too much info when describing something or writing about something. Second, what do I write?! Of course, I want to keep it simple for when Shiloh is first able to understand adoption, but I want it to also be relevent as she gets older.

Well, today on a particular adoption website I frequent the answer was given to me! A picture book! A girl who was adopted wrote about a book her mother made for her with only pictures. Pictures of the hospital she was born in, the flight from the state she was born in to her home state, and pictures with her family. It also included little momentos such as locks of her, lost teethe, etc. It was something that was just all about her! The girl said, it had no words so it was like a different story each time her mom read it to her and as she got older she was able to "read" it herself. It sounds like it became a way for her to express herself at times regarding her adoption. Her mom left a few pages blank at the beginning for pictures of the girl's birth mom. When the girl was older (7, I believe) her mom gave her pictures of her birth mom and she put them in the book and decorated those pages herself as another way to express what she was feeling.

I have pictures Kim had given me during her pregnancy that I can use, but considering that we have an OA I think I'll put the pictures in her book myself. Shiloh can still decorate it if she chooses to do so, but I see no reason to hold back on those pictures since Kim is a part of her life.

Anyway. I just wanted to share. I am kind of excited about the idea!