FIBERGUY

Everyone wants to see a picture of Juliette in her new sweater, and why not? So here she is in all her glory!

Juliette in her sweater

I took yesterday off to stay home with Juliette since our Monday babysitter is in Mexico on vacation this week and next. One of the secretaries grabbed her camera to make pictures. I thought you might like to see them.

Here are two pictures of a sweater my dear friend and quilt/knitsib Karen made for Juliette. It’s just cute as a button!

The sweater Karen knit for Juliette

The sweater Karen knit for Juliette - just ignore that avocado stain!

These were taken yesterday, at 7 months and 1 day, as she was on the bed playing with us after dinner, then as she drifted off to sleep and later got ready for bed. I figured today was a good day to share some happy, smiling pictures.

These photos came off of momma’s camera. I finally got around to scanning them.

These are for some dear friends in Norway.  The beautiful pink sweater was hand knit by Turid, and the lovely pink and cream socks came from Ellen, Jan & Berit’s daughter.  The socks are a perfect fit now, and there is much good wear in the sweater to come.  They are both family heirlooms now.

P.S.  Have any idea how hard it is to create a new blog post,with pictures, with a wriggling baby in your lap????

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(that’s what Juliette had to say!)

I know, I know.  It has taken me entirely too long to get these posted.  But better late than never, right?  There are some of my favorite pictures of Lady J in this set.  Enjoy!

Glory, hallelujah, and praise be to God!  It seems like it has taken forever to get to this point, and the backstory is moot by now, but we finally had our finalization hearing today.  Juliette was officially ours as of about 10:00 am this morning – and as one friend said, we are now hers, too.  Judge Quaintance is so very, very nice – you shouldn’t be nervous if you have to appear before her, she makes the process easy.  It was all over almost as soon as it began, and then were were a few moments for pictures.

Harald and I and the Judge

Don’t you love the way Juliette is checking out the judge?

After months of waiting for LSS to straighten out the mess they made with Juliette’s birth certificate and then finally filing our petition with the court and then the court saying on Wednesday that there were “issues” with our filing that prevented them giving us a hearing date, I arrived to work this morning and got a phone call from the program manager at LSS telling us they were hand-delivering one more item to the clerk of the court that the clerk’s office wanted and that the clerk had penciled us in on the judge’s calendar for a finalization hearing Thursday morning at 9:30. Oh, lord, I can hardly believe it, but I am so very, very happy at this unexpected turn of events. Keeps your fingers (and whatever else is worth it!) crossed that all goes off without a hitch and that we wake up Friday morning to the certain knowledge that she is ours forever!

Here are some pictures taken Halloween night.  We had H’s folks and sister over for dinner, and they stayed for the trick or treating fun.  We, of course, could not resist the temptation to dress her in her pumpkin outfit again.