Progress

A lot of things have been going on in our house over the last few weeks. I took Joshua in 2 weeks ago for yet another ear infection. Yes, this is his third ear infection in 3 months, always in the left ear. So, we started on antibiotics again. We took both of the boys in for their 18 month well-checks with Dr. Albert a few days later. The ear infection was gone, but we did talk about what happens if he continues to have ear infections over the next couple of months. If he gets to 6 ear infections within 6 months, we'll need to see an ENT for possible tubes in the ears. Please be in prayer against this particular issue. He seems to develop ear infections very rapidly. This time, his nose started running on Wednesday afternoon and by Thursday morning he was pulling on his ear.

On a happier note, both Joshua and Josiah have gained a total of 4 pounds and grown 2 inches since we've returned home from Ethiopia. This can be attributed, for the most part, to the fact that we've gotten rid of the parasites. They are walking ALL over the place and enjoy running away from Mommy and Daddy :) Developmentally, they've made great strides. They like to climb up the stairs (with us right behind them of course), love to take baths (hated them when we first came home), like to ride their cars all through the house and have figured out how to take the safety knobs OFF of the doors. They're favorite words are: Daddy, Bye-Bye, Ball, Nana (which is now Ba-Na-Na), Oh's (for Cheerios), and Bottle. They get the biggest kick out of going to one of Jessica's volleyball games and yelling "YAYYYYY!!!!!" at the top of their lungs with the hugest smiles on their faces. I really think that they have figured out how to get the entire gym to look at them and laugh.

Christopher celebrated his 12th birthday yesterday. Gosh, where has the time gone?? It was just yesterday that we were driving to the hospital for my scheduled 10am c-section. He is such a neat young man with a heart for the Lord and we are so proud of him. Have I mentioned that he's HUGE?! He's 5'7" tall and enjoys pointing it out to me on a daily basis. I keep telling him that he's blessed to have a Daddy who's 6'4" to override my short 5'2" genes.

Finally off to bed - more to come later :)

Born in September

I found this on a friend's blog who also adopted from Ethiopia. It really touched me, so I decided to post it our blog to see if we can light a fire in people to reach out to the beautiful people of Ethiopia by providing them with clean water.


The September Campaign Trailer - www.borninseptember.org from charity: water on Vimeo.

Having seen this country in person and personally experienced only one of the sicknesses that come from unclean water, I can't emphasize strongly enough how important clean water is to the people of Ethiopia. Would you consider helping?

Fireproof

Today, Matthew and I put the twins down for an afternoon nap, left them with Jessica and Christopher, then went to see the movie Fireproof. WHAT AN AWESOME MOVIE this is!! If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it.