18 months!
My babies are 18 months old today. Unbelievable! Last year on this date we failed court for the second time, oh the heartache, but what a difference a year makes. They fill our lives with such joy!
They are very busy boys. They love the outdoors, water, reading, making noise, dancing, music, and playing with mom and dad.
Currently they are really working on their vocabulary and try so hard to copy us. Words they are saying: dadda, momma, kitty (ez says key but I know what he means), door, shoe, bubba, dog, hi, hey, uh-oh. Noah also says Ezra and has said Grandma, but refuses to now. They also say nana for banana.
Noah and his wocket for his pocket.
shhh don’t tell him the book is upside down, he likes it that way
what you said don’t put my foot on the table?
don’t ask.
60 years!
Yesterday my grandparents celebrated 60 years of marriage. WOW!!! Congratulations to them. We get to go back and celebrate with them at the end of the month. I can’t wait for them to meet their great-grandsons. 🙂
Here’s the clip from their local paper, there is another couple on the page married for 73 years!
Letting go
Yesterday I decided to let go of control, the control I had because I still fed the boys their breakfast and lunch. I decided it was time they could feed themselves. They’ve been feeding themselves dinner for a long time and I had been resisting letting them feed themselves the rest of their meals. Today I decided to just rip the band-aid off and let them at it. Well they loved their new independence and did really great, plus ate plenty of food.
Here they are enjoying breakfast:
and lunch:
We were having so much fun with our new independence we decided to try out our booster seats and sit at the table for snack:
We also ate dinner this way. All four of us at the table, it was nice. 🙂 Plus not having high chairs in the kitchen frees up some space.
Never Be
Never be too busy to stop and take a moment with your child. There will always be dishes to wash and counters to wipe down, but these moments will soon just be memories and he will be grown.
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Helping daddy fix their oven door
First popsicles (don’t let the face fool you, he loved it)
Trying so hard to catch the water
He’s running so fast he is not even touching the ground!
Water fun from Stephanie Adams on Vimeo.
Short video of Ez enjoying the water
Dancing at the splash pad from Stephanie Adams on Vimeo.
There was music nearby, so Ez just had to dance!
Full Life in the Emptiest of Places
I’ve started reading Everyday Justice: The Global Impact of our Daily Lives. In the introduction she tackles the concept of justice as meant in the Bible vs. our common conception of justice. It is more about freeing the oppressed than punishing the wrong. “Justice: the practical result of loving God and loving others.” She referenced a passage from Isaiah that I just wanted to share.
Isaiah 58: 9-12 (The Message)
If you get rid of unfair practices, quit blaming victims, quit gossiping about other people’s sins, If you are generous with the hungry and start giving yourselves to the down-and-out, Your lives will begin to glow in the darkness, your shadowed lives will be bathed in sunlight. I will always show you where to go. I’ll give you a full life in the emptiest of places–firm muscles, strong bones. You’ll be like a well-watered garden, a gurgling spring that never runs dry. You’ll use the old rubble of past lives to build anew, rebuild the foundations from out of your past. You’ll be known as those who can fix anything, restore old ruins, rebuild and renovate, make the community livable again.
Wordless Wednesday – 04.28.2010
Officially Done
We are done with the adoption process. As part of the process we were required to have three post placement visits by our social worker. (Technically we still have to send yearly report to Ethiopia, but I am not counting those as part of the process.) We had our last visit last Friday and the report and several pictures will be off to Ethiopia shortly. Post placement visits are easy, they just want to know where the kids are developmentally, what they are eating, what they like to do, and some things they like to play with. They are also a chance for the parents to obtain any resource information they may need, have any questions answered, and hear from someone else that they haven’t totally screwed up their kids (yet). We are happy to be done, but I will admit it does feel weird, when you start the process it feels never ending, and then all of the sudden you are done.
Dedication
Yesterday we dedicated the boys at church. They looked super cute in their Ethiopian outfits.
The Family
Noah
Ezra
As you can see the boys were a “little” interested in the stage behind us and all the instruments up there.
After church we came back to our house for a lunch and a little fun.
Ezra and Ethan giggling together.
Abby
Michelle attacking Noah
Ez with Grandpa’s camera
Future Band Geeks?
Band Geeks from Stephanie Adams on Vimeo.