It's September Already! Another month has gone by.

September is here and we're still waiting to be matched with baby. During the last 1.5 months, "Hubbie" & I have been reading more parenting books. We really enjoyed reading "On Becoming Baby Wise: Book Two" parenting pretoddlers 5 to 15 months written by Gary Ezzo, MA & Robert Bucknam, MD. The book emphasizes that the patterns children develop today will forever impact his/her life. Book Two stresses the belief that the duty of every parent is to raise a morally responsible child who will grow up to be a morally responsible adult.

I've borrowed and started reading a couple of baby food cookbooks from a friend. Both books are good references. The "Super Baby Food' book written by Ruth Yaron is a bit overwhelming for me because I'm not a connoisseur in the kitchen in the first place. No colorful pictures of the recommended recipes to include in baby's diet. I would recommend "First Meals" by Annabel Karmel to be included in the parenting library of books. There are a lot of colorful pictures of "mouth watering" foods to cook for the baby and family too.

"Hubbie" & I are learning to sign so that we can teach baby to communicate basic needs prior to being able to verbalize in words. We have two "Baby Signing Time" DVDs that we're learning from. I hope that signing will decrease the communication frustrations on both ends (baby & us). We will still verbalize the words as we sign so that she can associated the words to the signing gestures.

I really did not hear any news of expedited families receiving their referrals at the beginning of September, referral time. I'm hoping that we'll hear some good news at the begiining of October for expedited families. It's just a couple of weeks away. We're waiting on "pins & needles" guessing when we'll receive our referral. Due to CCAA's more stricter interpretations of the expedited criteria, some families have been denied and are waiting longer than they originally anticipated. We hope that the CCAA workers have included "Hubbie" and I in the expedited pile.