A little bit of everything..

I have had sooo many phone calls, messages and e-mails from people who are interesting in adopting and want to know more, so I will try to keep updating my blog frequently with info and how we are going through the whole process. To all those who are interested I HIGHLY advise going to the orientation meeting, you will find out everything you could possibly want to know, get paperwork, information and they can answer all of your questions and you don't have to proceed further from there if you don't want to. You can just google SC DSS and all of the information is on their website. Also the number one question everyone is asking me is how much does it cost? NOTHING! It's absolutely free we only have to pay for our co-pays to get our physicals done at the doctor, and for Ryder, I just have to drop the form off and they will get Dr. Whitaker to fill it out for FREE! So in our case a whopping $30 :) They pay all of your legal fees, training classes, inspections, you name it! Adopting doesn't HAVE to cost a fortune!

Update for us* We have scheduled our physicals, fingerprinting, and training classes and all will take place in the next 3 weeks! I hope to have the first section of paperwork completed in the next 2 weeks. When we go to the training classes we will get the remaining paperwork left, and get scheduled for both of our home inspections (DHEC & Fire) as well as schedule our home study process. This entire process is said to take 6 months, due to DHEC inspections being 3 months behind schedule.. I am hoping to get done early.. hopefully more like 4-5 months. We will see!!

I also realized I never posted our trip the other week to EDventure Childrens Museum. The first Tuesday night of every month it's only $1 admission!! We got there right when it started thank goodness because after the first hour it was PACKED! Ryder had the time of his life!! (Eric had even more fun if that is humanly possible) 

Ryder and Eric got to be "on the news" and LOVED watching themselves on TV :)

They had all sorts of instruments to play and of course my little drummer boy had a blast!

They have the neatest shopping section, you get to push your cart through the "store" and then checkout! Ryder LOVED it!

 His favorite thing was getting to dress up like a Fireman and drive the firetruck! This little boy was in HEAVEN!

 Ryder and Daddy had a blast! As you can see!