The Zoo

You Never Know

Where new friends will come from. Yesterday, we were blessed to finally meet some friends of ours. Strange as it sounds, we (I) had "met" a wonderful woman on our adoption agency's internet forum about two years ago. They were in the process of adopting a sibling group while we were waiting for our referral for Marcus and Zoe. They traveled to Ethiopia and picked up their three kids, then we traveled to get Marcus & Zoe and then they traveled again to bring home another daughter...and so it goes.

During that time, we were blessed by being able to pray for each other and support each other on-line, through the ups and downs of the adoption process. Because they live no where near us, I never got to actually meet them until yesterday when they hosted us at their house in Wisconsin. What a blessing it was to finally see the children I prayed for and to see our children enjoying each other.

We didn't take a lot of pictures because we spent most of the time talking, but here are a couple of cute ones of Marcus & Zoe with their new friends.

Marcus & Titus

Zoe & Betty

Now, normally, I wouldn't advocate going out and meeting someone you've met on-line, but I figured a homeschooling mom of eight kids whose adopted from Ethiopia and loves the Lord was probably a safe bet.

Thanks, Randy & Lori for the very enjoyable time!

Well, Now I Know

It's room time here. As I was just finishing up on the computer I heard Zoe calling me from her room. That was strange since she is usually sleeping during room time. I thought it wise to investigate (and tell her to lay down and go to sleep). What should I discover when I opened her door?

Zoe, lying in her crib with her shirt off, her onesie off and her diaper most of the way off. This is especially noteworthy since her pants were still on. She somehow managed to unsnap her onesie and remove her diaper without removing her pants. Now that's talent!

So, now I know that she is fully capable of undressing herself (at least when she is bored).

Update

Marcus informed me at the breakfast table this morning that he thinks it was a deer he saw yesterday, not a giraffe. Whew, that sounds a little more plausible.

How's His Vision?

Today, Marcus was sitting on the chair in the living room (not voluntarily :) ) and looking out the window in the back. After a while he says to me, "Mom, I see a horse in the woods."

Now since we don't usually have horses running around our park, I gave some sort of acknowledgement that I heard him, but I thought he was mistaken.

He keeps staring out the back window. After a while he says, "No, it's not a horse. It's a baby giraffe."

Now this I had to see! Alas, he kept trying to point the baby giraffe out to me, but I just couldn't seem to locate it.

I think I need to make an eye appointment for that boy.

Posts?

So, why haven't I been posting as much this week? In one word, laundry. You know, when you're out of town for a week that stuff tends to pile up. Instead of my normal four-days-a-week laundry routine, last week I only did it one day which translates to - mountains of laundry. Well, I am happy to announce that today, for a brief moment, the dirty laundry basket was empty! Hip-hip-hooray! Now I just need something blog-worthy to happen...

Actually, there is one more reason why I haven't been blogging - no time :) I have decided that instead of blogging in the morning before the kids get up, I will use that time to pray (a MUCH better use of the free twenty minutes I usually have). This leaves only room time and nighttime to blog. Well, room time has been filled up with doctor's appointments the last few days and I need to fight Evan for computer time after 9:00. Consequently, fewer blog posts this week :)

Random Pictures

Because I left my heart (and Zoe's highchair and my car keys) back in Alabama, I'm going to post some random pictures from the last few days of our time there. I can't post pictures from the other days because they are still on Chris' laptop. Hmmm, I'll have to figure out how to get them to this computer...Anyway, here are some warm memories...

The Train Museum in Foley, Alabama - well worth the price of admission (FREE)

Marcus & Raelea frolicking in the surf

Zoe taking Dad on a walk

Pondering a jellyfish. We spent a fair amount of time doing this, as there were a lot of jellyfish to ponder (and step on if you weren't looking where you were going).