So I didn’t get a post in for two days but I must say I am doing much better than the previous months, right?
Saturday I got to go out shopping (had a few free item coupons at Bath and Body Works, and we hit the huge Scholastic Books warehouse sale, and took back a few things I bought black friday) with a friend of mine, who, by the way, is adopting from Ethiopia, through the same agency. Her little girl will even be from the same orphanage. I am so excited that we will have another family in our little town with a child from Ethiopia. Check out her blog ….her baby girl has a court date in Ethiopia today (they are 11 hours ahead). This court appearance will make her officially their child and they will soon know when they can go pick her up. Things have been changing in the Ethiopian adoption system, the government has added a few other steps and papers to the process, and so some families are not making it through courts the first time around. So pray with Amy and her family that their sweet little baby girl would make it through court and be unite with her family soon. The waiting is so hard.
Also, on Saturday we went to Brandon’s office Christmas party… it was fun… stayed out way too late. Luckily, the boys were at our friends house who were also at the party, being watched by their daughter… who got them to bed and asleep by 8, so we just stayed the night there.
All in all it was a fun and busy weekend. Brandon is out picking up some bunk beds and mattresses that I found on Craigslist. This is our first time buying anything off of the site so keep your fingers crossed with us that it is successful. The boys are so excited to get the bunk beds (we won’t set them up until next week when we move into our house) but Sloan has already asked if we can put Christmas lights around the bed….He said that it would be awesome if we could. Yes, he used the word awesome….
Here are a couple pics of the boys…
Our little cheeseball. Before hair cut.
Post haircut… if you ask Eyob where his hair is, he will say, “Heather did it!” We cut his hair on a long awaited visit down in the Portland area with one of the couples we traveled with to Ethiopa. They adopted a little boy one month younger then Eyob. While we were there we decided that dealing with his hair and all the pain and stress it causes between us was not worth the cute hair do. So Heather shaved it off. Thanks Heather! It has been a wonderful relief to not have the nightly screaming as I tried to comb through his hair.
It has been so fun to see these two really start to get along. They are so close in age that for a while there I was concerned they would spend the rest of their lives driving each other and us crazy with their fighting, but as Eyob really begins to settle in and become part of the family, Sean is becoming so much more accepting of him. We have been talking to him a lot about how he is Eyob’s big brother and it is his job to take care of him and protect him… all the things that we have said and still say to Sloan about Sean and Eyob. Many times over the last few weeks, Sean has referred to Eyob as his special little brother….Seany is so loving and stinky at the same time. We have prayed and continue to pray that the Father will bind our boys together for life. What a force they will be for Him.
Sean and Canyon Paul (my brother Brad’s son)on Thanksgiving. They are about 4 months apart and look so much a like to me. Both of them have the cutest shaggy hair and boy are they mischevious.
We had 4 boys 4 and under at our little Thanksgiving partyand I’ll be honest we did resort to a little Veggie Tales that day. We needed a little quite.
And we can’t forget the little lady of the year….Sage. Isn’t she a doll. Not sure why Seany is in so many of these pics… it’s weird.. although he is so darn cute I could just eat him…those cheeks….yum..
These are all the kiddos from Thanksgiving with Brandon’s family. At one point they were all running a loop from the livingroom and around through the kitchen. I don’t know if they were playing tag or just acting crazy, but one by one, they got “hot” and took their shirts off. Arent’ they cute. 6 boys 6 and under.
Well, I’ll let you to… till tomorrow.