This is BIG, people!

My concession to Hallo-freakin'-ween...Notice that it's not actually carved. I couldn't get a decent picture to save my life. He was too busy trying to roll the thing around like it was a ball.

So Cassie made off with his binkie...

Looks like the #2 picture is the clear cut winner! Now...I'm not sure what I'm going to do with that information...

Today I went and applied for Kevin's Social Security card. For once, something was easy. Bing-bada-boom and I should get it in 7-10 days. This was my first priority in post-adoption world...as I'm sure you can tell by it taking me only a month and a half to get it done. Not bad for a procrastinator. Money is a huge motivator. Gotta have that to claim him this year. WooHoo! Yeah, baby. I need that money to get the addition put on my house so he can get the hell out of my room have his own room eventually. You know so I can eat my peanut butter cups in peace! so he can have his own little space.

The Recognition of Foreign Adoption/name change will have to wait for another day. I actually shot over to the courthouse to do that, too, since the SS thing went so well. Problem was that, when I got there, I was like a deer in the headlights. I knew I had to go to the Orphans Court and I waltzed on up there only to be standing in a hallway with closed doors all around. Nobody to greet my ass or tell me where the hell I was supposed to go. These were the big-ass doors like you see on a courtroom on TV. I wasn't about to just open it and walk in. I kept envisioning opening the door to an ongoing court case and having a room full of people turn and glare at me and the audacity that I had to do such a thing. A room full of strangers turning to look at me isn't something I fondly dream of in the best of circumstances. Apparently, Roni tells me, this is exactly what you're supposed to do. She said there's an area within those doors that there's somebody sitting at that will help you. Well...how is anyone supposed to know that?! Would it be so freakin' difficult to have a bloody sign somewhere, or, heaven bless us, a person somewhere to direct you that's not hidden behind some big, scary, intimidating doors?!

So, now I have to wait until I can kick my procrastinating ass back into gear and get back over there again. Sigh.