Mikayla Meets Elvis

We had a chance to see Josh's play a few times last week. Those kids are incredible. Its quite a production. The guy who plays Elvis the pharaoh is really amazing. At one point, he comes into the audience to flirt with some lady and gives her some cheesy pick-up line. Josh strategically bought our seats for Saturday and talked to the pharaoh so that he would come and talk to Mikayla. She was so excited. He knelt down next to her and in his most awesome Elvis voice he said, "Hey there pretty little mama. Does your mama feed you Campbell's chicken noodle soup? Because baby, you look mmm mmm good!"

It was so cute! She loved it. She was so so smiley and felt very special. After he swaggered away, she smiled at me and said, "That boy is wearing lipstick!" He was so nice to do that for her. He even saw her in the foyer after the show and knelt down to talk to her for a minute.

It's been fun to see Josh in the play. He's been having a lot of fun with it and the girls love to go see their daddy on the stage. He is so dedicated to his school and his students. We love you, Josh!

Mikayla and Gweny Meet Cosmo, the Camel

Josh's school is doing a production of "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" (Josh is actually in the play. He's Jacob, the father) and they have a real camel to come on stage for part of it. I hurried over the school yesterday because the nice owner of Cosmo said that the kids could come see him before the rehearsal started. Gweny was terrified at first, but after Cosmo gave her a sniff on the bum and licked her shoe, she warmed right up to him.

Laughing Baby

This video isn't very good, but I love his funny laugh. Mikayla makes him laugh so hard and then Gweny starts laughing because the baby is laughing. How I love the happy sounds of my children!!

8 Months!

This little man is 8 months old! I can't believe how big he is! He just keeps growing and growing...
He is still such a good baby. He has one tooth. He can clap his hands and cruises all around the living room. He and Gweny love to wrestle and he likes to pull the cat's tail. Mikayla can make him laugh harder than anyone else in the family. He loves peas and oatmeal and dances when he hears music. We love this boy!!

National Adoption Month

November is National Adoption Month. I get reflective this time of year. It is appropriate that National Adoption Month and Thanksgiving fall in the same month. I am so grateful for my children and the unique ways they came into our family. I'm thankful for the courage and compassion of all of our amazing birth parents. Some of you, we have standing or new relationships with and some of you watch from afar, but we know you are there. We feel your presence, all of you. We see you in so much of what we do and we think of you more often than you could know.

Rather than bore you with another long post, I will let the songs in these slideshows speak for me. Listen to the words and enjoy the beautiful music (and of course, my beautiful children)!

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A little note to Gweny,
We love you, too. I know that, ironically, you may someday feel like the outsider because your brother and sister share this bond of being adopted. But just remember that I firmly believe that before we came to this earth, we were a family. We were there together. Now, we are here on earth together, some of us just had to take a little detour to get to the right place!

More About Mikayla and Gweny

I love that Mikayla thinks Gweny is cute. Mikayla quite often quotes funny things Gweny says. This morning, Mikayla came into the living room chuckling to herself and she said, "Gweny just walked by me and said 'I am old.' She's cute!"

Some other things Gweny says:

"I can't walk. My leg is just too hungry."

"Hey, Hannah Montana has yellow hair like me. Hannah Montana is Gweny!"

"I'm just helping my sister drink her chocolate milk, so she doesn't spill it." (and Mikayla just lets Gweny drink her chocolate milk. She's a very, very good big sister).

Gweny still has a tiny bit of a hard time speaking. Her new thing is to put BEE in front of thing. For example, she can't say "Mikayla" so she just calls her "sister," which works out fine most of the time. When she has to say Mikayla's name, she says "Beetaya."

She also says "beegrage" (bee-grahg) instead of garage.


She loves her nursery leaders. She told me that Brother Ford is her boyfriend.

I really love these little girls!