Here he is with my friend’s baby girl who is 9 months old.
Ace…the baby lover!
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Here he is with my friend’s baby girl who is 9 months old. Tag Archives: The Kids 2009
Here he is with my friend’s baby girl who is 9 months old. Adoption Prayers Please
Well, it looks like we will be either on hold with our adoption or seeking God’s will in another country, or even here domestically. Please pray for us and for the country we were going to adopt from. They are currently, and have been for over a year, working on trying to put in place newer safer adoption laws that will protect the children, their birth families and the families adopting them. So far, progress has been extremely slow in getting these new laws in place and the president of the country announced last night in an address that all international adoptions would be put on hold. We are waiting to hear from our program coordinator to see if this is all true. If so, then we’ll be put on an indefinite hold since we have not turned in our dossier for the country, nor been connected with a child. I’ll post more as I know it.
This All Happened on Sunday!!
Ace painted a rock at church in Sunday school this past week. Here’s the conversation about why he painted a rock.
Mark: Ace, who did you talk about in Sunday school?
Ace: Jacob
Mark: What did Jacob use to sleep on?
Ace: A rock.
Mark: After Jacob had the dream while sleeping on the rock, what did he do with the rock?
Ace: He planted it. It didn’t grow anything.
(Correct answer would have been he built an alter/ebenezer/memorial…oh well…so close)
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Pastor L told the baptismal participants to be sure and look for the last step down into the baptism waters because sometimes people miss it. At the end of his talk, Zoe raised her hand to ask a question.
Zoe: What happens if you miss the step going into the water?
Pastor L: Well, I guess you’ll be baptized before I can get to you.
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Grandmere and Papa made the trek to see Zoe baptized. My friend, A, asked Liam if Grandmere was here (meaning at church).
Liam: No.
A (thinking that she must have the grandmom name wrong): Well, who’s here?
Liam: I am.
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And the last one. This has nothing to do with our kids but it was funny. Another large family has a van close to the same color as ours but it’s a 15 passenger where ours is just a 12 passenger. One of the family members, a boy in first grade (I believe), came walking up with one of our minister’s sons. He kept saying to the minister’s son, “See, it’s not ours!” I guided them a few cars down to their van saying that they both wanted to be Characters. It was quite funny to us! So, C, I’ll take your kids any day! Even P!
I have THE shirt!
So, I have a friend who wanted to give me something at church on Sunday but she had to see me open the gift. Hmmm…I knew she is devoted blog reader and I knew she was very creative. So, I knew something was up. I got the best and coolest shirt…
Okay, so my expression leaves something to be desired. Read on dear friends…
Oh yeah, I put the shirt on right away and paraded around the church. I need to get one for another friend who just delivered her 12th! Isn’t that an awesome baby gift. Oh, and she got some stuff for Ceili Rain.
She even spelled her name correctly. What’s so funny is that those things on the left side are burp cloths and I had just told Mark that afternoon that I needed to make some more burp cloths for Ceili Rain and get them embroidered as I only had three burp cloths for her. Ta da! Beautiful cloths for her to spit up all over and I didn’ t have to do the work!
Thanks so much L! I love them all!!!
Zoe’s Baptism
Zoe decided that she was ready to be baptized this month. Our church does baptisms once a month. So, Zoe, and 30 of her closest church family were baptized! I confess, I cried…I think I was the only mom in the baptismal who cried…but hey, it’s my baby, and I am so excited to see her take such a mature, obedient step in following Christ. Ace said she was getting “babatized” and that when he asked Jesus in his heart he could get “babatized” AND “get to drink the grape juice and eat the cracker.” Stay tuned…I got some more good ones coming up!
Getting ready!
Waiting her turn!
Pastor L and Zoe
Christ died for our sins…
Buried and…
Rose again on the third day! Praise God for this act of obedience in walking with Christ!!
Snow Day!!
It actually snowed here. A little bit. Well, it really snowed a lot all and it lasted all day. I thought it would be momentary, so as soon as I spotted snowflakes we ran outside and then when it kept snowing we came back in, put on hats and coats and traipsed back out. After that it was time to sip hot chocolate…oh yeah! Of course, it may have snowed but it didn’t stick. It was way too warm the past few days to stick, but the kids enjoyed seeing it for the first time. The last time we had any snow was a light dusting when Zoe was a couple of weeks old. She told me she didn’t remember that. Here’s my snow dudes and dudette…I made sure to get some close ups of the snow for my friends who wouldn’t believe me.
See the snowflake??
Josiah feelin’ the snow.
And yes, my boys are in their pjs, but they are blanket sleepers and they were nice and toasty. They requested a pj day and since we didn’t have anywhere to go, I agreed to it. I can be nice sometimes.
Adoption Expo and a Quick Visit
Last weekend, we had the opportunity to attend an adoption expo at a church in North Carolina. On the way, we stopped and visited with some friends. They have a 2 year old and a little almost six month old. We had a great visit and the kids loved playing with the 2 year old.
The adoption expo was great. A church sponsered it through their orphan care ministry and Mark and I learned a lot. We also got to see Meridith Andrews perform/lead worship and that was wonderful too. Anyway, no major incidences with the kids. We all survived a compact hotel room and to kill time the night before the expo we let the kids take over Wal-Mart. It was too cold to do much else…and it was a very small town. Zoe, our ever social butterfly, made friends with a girl who is about her age. She had been adopted from China. Somehow I doubt adopting a child internationally is going to be a big issue for her. Liam made friends with some high schoolers who were entertaining kids with a craft to be sent on a mission trip. Ace just hung out and colored and chased Josiah around. Good times, good times.
‘R’ on the steps. He is so adorable!
Ace and Liam loved ‘R’s new Christmas present from us. I have to admit it was pretty cool…and it had an off button…big plus!
Here is ‘E’ with his mom. Sorry, C, about that expression but that was the best we had. Not sure what the face was about.
To the Rescue!
Liam announcing as he ran to potty at supper time (he always has to go then…not sure what it is about my food).
“Pooperman to the Rescue!!!”
Just had to share.
Daddy’s Day Out
Last Saturday, we realized would be the last warm weather day for the week, so Mark took Zoe and Ace with him to a local area/walking trail to ride scooters and bikes. However, when they got there, Zoe had a hard time with the scooter and loose rock and Ace’s bike tires were completely flat. So, they just walked around and looked at some cool things! I think they both enjoyed that time with Dad, especially when he stopped and got ice cream on the way home.
A small waterfall near the dam.
This is just a beautiful area. Mark and I biked this trial back in May and it was just as pretty then.
Our two adventurers!
Ace spotted this in the water…alligator???
Look closer and you’ll see that it’s a…
…branch sticking up out of the water…pretty neat optical illusion provided by God! It even has an eye!
Shhhh! #2
I’m thinking of doing a photo study on where Josiah falls asleep. This time, I was talking to Mark downstairs and after tv time, Ace came down to say, “I’m not asleep on the floor.” Which meant Josiah was. When you’re tired, you’re tired! (And yes, there are a couple of Christmas presents that still have not been delivered…mom, I’m so sorry I forgot to give that to Grandmere & Papa…will see her in a couple of weeks and do that then!)
