Bath Time = Frizzy Crazy Hair

All clean and ready to hop out and dry off!

Learning to brush the mop! :)

I think the pictures speak for themselves! David's always been teased about his hair since the day we got him! Truth be told, he needs a DESPERATE serious haircut, but his mom won't give us permission to cut it. She says we can only TRIM it!

Oh me, Oh my!

Laine keeping busy building with Tinker Toys!

David

Ezra with his adorable "Jesus Loves Me" t-shirt from Aunt Shi Sha!

Princess Adalinne sleeping securely!

Has it been THIS LONG since I've posted. Sorry! Things have been busy, but fairly restful. Not much new. We still have our sweet princess Adalinne. She's still sleeping, eating and staying awake at night for mommy! Her DT's (Detox Tremors) are getting worse and worse. If you could just keep praying us through the next 5-6 weeks or so that'd be much appreciated. For those of you who don't know what those are, they are "seizure like" fits that occur as Adalinne is coming down from off her "high." It makes me cry EVERY TIME. There's positively NOTHING I can do for her but be with her while she has them and make sure she doesn't knock into something while having one. Ezra had these, but they were much milder (sp). Not near as bad as Adalinne's have been. We're still without visits, so that's a good sign. Any of this can change at any moment, but for her being three weeks today, it's rare we haven't had a consistent visit "scheduled."

Ezra's still doing great! We just had is one year pictures taken today! I know, late, but things have been a bit crazy! :) He's starting to "sign" and say please every time he wants something instead of screaming, so that's GREAT! :) He's so tender and SO HAPPY! He's such a joy to have around!

David too is doing good. Definitely busy and into this purposeful hurting himself. He got a black eye this week at preschool when he ran full force into the corner of a bookshelf at school. He laughed and thought it was funny! Not going to be so funny when we explain to his mom and dad tomorrow for his visit why his eye is all black and blue! :) Need to work on this a bit! :)

Laine is getting geared up for his summer full of Vacation Bible Schools! :) He LIVES for these clubs and has three this year. Should be fun. :) This coming Sunday starts his first one in the evening at First Baptist Church. He's a trooper and most the time tags along with me when I run to do short errands! He LOVES getting out of the house. He's my opposite of "homeboy." He's been really creative with his Tinkertoys as you can see in the pictures.

Weather here is 115 today, so we're, needless to say, hanging INSIDE while we can! Way too hot to do ANYTHING or go anywhere. Benjamin has worked the last several days in a row (through last weekend), so he's looking forward to a few days off this weekend. We'll be happy to have daddy home too!

"We've got Ezra."

Well, okay, sort of. And okay, normally you hear it being said in the Annie movie, "We've got Annie." Today was a day that will go down in our history book. I finally contacted Erza's attorney since things haven't moved ONE SINGLE INCH since his termination last November (6 1/2 months ago). The attorney's office definitely agreed with us that things should've been passed along to an adoption worker a LONG time ago. They contacted Ezra's social worker directly, she actually answered her phone and "said," like she always does, that she'll have the case turned over to an adoption worker by next week. The attorney's office said if that's not completed when she gets back into the office on June 23, that she will be calling Carole's supervisor to mandate that happen IMMEDIATELY and then we will FINALLY officially be considered "in the adoption process" with Ezra! Can't believe we are finally to the next step on Ezra's case. He'll be fifteen months next week, and we are more than ready to call him our own officially. So, please be praying specifically on June 23 that we can hear officially that an adoption worker finally has the case and can move forward with it. That's only the beginning of the next huge set of hurdles we'll have to cross, but we're ready for it! Thanks for tagging along with us in this process!

Still no word the other family has accepted the placement on Adalinne, so we're hanging on as hard as we can right now. Hoping nothing changes. Still some natural hesitation though. If we hear more, we'll let you know through here.

Adalinne & Mommy

Just a few sweet pictures of us! I just LOVE sitting and holding and just STARING at Adalinne! Can't believe she's in my arms.

Three Cousins & Three MIRACLE Daughters!

We had a WONDERFUL day celebrating our cousins' new baby girl, Charis Leigh Barrett, at an all church (Church of Celebration) baby shower.

Josh & Ginger, another cousin, Jeremy & Andra, and Benjamin & I haven't been able to have our own children biologically for one reason or another. But, all three of us have adopted some sweet babies already. Knowing we're not alone is so comforting and how God specifically put us three not only in the same family, but in the same geographic area to enjoy each other has been another sweet blessing. As of recent, God has blessed EACH of our families with new baby girls! It's been AMAZING! Ava was born in April, on my birthday actually! Charis was born in May, and so was Adalinne! So, today we HAD to take a picture of all three of us cousins and our beautiful girls.

Time to......

...........get ready for our next move! For those of you that don't know yet, we'll be moving towards the end of August into a different home.

So, I'm starting to do the typical, go through, pitch, yard sale, reorganize, etc. Started today with the toy room! Turned out incredible! With the help of a teacher friend, we whizzed through it in a few hours!

Uh oh! Cheerios!!

Uh oh, am I busted!?

The box is completely empty!

I think the pictures can speak for themselves! These are the extra little things that happen when you're minding after FOUR children under the age of FOUR! Just have to live and laugh!