New Addition Update (Lulu)

Well we met the new siblings today! As soon as we walked in the door the little brother was immediately attached to my big gray hair. And he never left his side the whole time we were there. He even had a "to-do" list that he had made of all the things he wanted to do with his new big brother!

The new little sis is extremely shy so she just stared at him for a long time. Finally, about a half hour before we had to leave (and we had already been there for 3 1/2 hrs) she started opening up and having fun. It didn't help that my little gray hair is as equally quiet around new people so they pretty much leeched on to us mom's for most of the day.

As for the kids mom we also hit it off pretty quickly. It was kinda weird to talk to someone who had gone thru the same crap. Her outlook on life is so much like mine that it really makes ya think about how a situation really can shape who a person is. We did not dwell on the negative crap all that much...just talked about what we learned from it.

The similarities in the kids was almost scary. Wynter is 9 and she looks a lot like Cody. Valice is 8 and doesnt look as much like Cody but he acts a lot like what Cody did at that age. We also started talking about some of the things the kids have done and most of the time I sat there going "Holy crap! Cody did the same thing!!" She has had a lot of issues with the kids tempers just like I have had with Cody and it just makes you think some of it has to be hereditary.

All in all it was an absolutely amazing day! None of the kids wanted to say good-bye when it was time to leave. We had only been gone about a half hour when Wynter sent a message saying that she missed Cody already and that she cannot wait to see him again. I think this is going to be a good thing all the way around and quite frankly the mom and I have agreed that the dead beat dad doesn't need to be a part of any of this! He told so many lies to try and make sure we never got together and now that we have, well we are not going to let his lies do any more damage!