Week 8

Week 8



Happy 14th Birthday, Grace!

Tom made the traditional birthday waffles before heading off to school!

Grace, we love you so much!  You are a beautiful girl on the inside and out!  We're so thankful that God gave us you! 



She also got the book, The Power of a Praying Teen. 

Thank you to Robin and Ricky Mitchell for bringing over a bike this week for Jake!  Shane was so sweet.  He knew Jake needed training wheels & he volunteered to put them.  Jake was off and going not to long after this picture!



Jake watching his brother put on his training wheels in our driveway.

Thank you Anna W for doing our family photo shoot this week. 
We took pictures in Mt. Pleasant and very close to our house.
Some of these will be posted in the upcoming weeks!



 On Thursday, Shane got braces!   




Please pray for his mouth to feel better soon.  And yes, he'll be getting bottom braces in the near future.

 

On Thursday, Jake and Joy didn't have any homework.  Jake decided he wanted to work with the American themed stencils.  When I saw he was working on the Staute of Liberty, I asked him if he knew what it was.  He did by holding his arm up like he was also holding the torch.  I was happy to know that he understood this great American symbol!



His question for me was, "Mom, what color?" 

  The other highlight drawings of the week were pictures by Joy and Marta.   Marta drew the picture below.  Even though there are no people, it's colorful and seems happy.  I especially like the stars down in the left hand corner.

And Joy's family picture, below!  I was excited that she included each person and wrote everyone's name (in English) above each person!  Marta and Joy are starting to feel better about our family and each other.



The other fun part of the week has been teaching Jake and Joy the words to

"Mary had a Little Lamb."

Both Jake and Joy love music.  I was able to print out a coloring sheet with the words to the nursery rhyme.  Being the homeschool mom that I was, I knew I could tap into their learning with music and rhyme.  We had to do some school at home this week because the public school had testing.  The Vice Principal asked me to please bring them at 10:00am on Wed and Thurs morning.  We worked on our song and also on phonics! 

Over the coming weekend, we'll be celebrating Joy's 11th birthday! 
We have a Barbie cake ordered.  I can't wait to see her face.

To all you who are reading our blog, thank you again!  We love having you follow along.  Please pray for the orphans who are waiting for a family.  Please pray for those families who are considering adopting, but are afraid.  May God bless each one of you today and in the many weeks ahead with awesome His love, peace, and presence.