I can't believe that we have had Lightening Hope in our life for a whole month, and yet it is weird to see the video and pictures from Gotcha Day. That day seems like ages ago! Time is weird that way.
Thank you all for respecting our request to keep your distance. She is doing so well and continues to sleep better each night. Tonight she went to bed in her crib at 8pm. AMAZING! not even a peep. It is sinking in that we will come for her in the morning and she can rest her body, mind and heart. Praise the Lord! I was preparing for a year of restless nights. (Not like there won't be more like before but the "every night waking every 45 minutes to 2 hours is hard on us and her!)
My back is a little better everyday! Thank you all for your prayers and help!
Here is a picture from our first day with her and one from a month later.
We had our first visit from our social worker today. We just love her and were excited to introduce baby girl to her! It has been about 4 years since we started with her and the adoption process. The last 20 months have been in China portion. China requires 6 visits by our social worker over 5 years. She writes reports and sends them to our agency who forwards them to China.
(They go as follows: after coming home...1 month, 6 months, 1 year, 2 years, 3 years and 5 years)
Here are some pictures from our last week!
We received the Show Hope grant, as I have mentioned before. Steven Curtis Chapman and his wife Mary Beth Chapman came to town to do a Show Hope concert and fundraising event last Friday. We were honored to share our story with their team at a lunch and later that evening at the concert. We are so thankful for their ministry and in helping us bring home this girl!
(The evening concert)
After we received the grant our kids starting adding their "GIVE" money to this envelope. They presented it to the Chapmans that evening. They were so gracious and said that they would let us know which grant-family it went towards.
Amazing!
It's so fun to walk every step of this with our kiddos!
After the concert with some friends!
As many of you also know I threw out my back the night before the concert...bad timing! We had some sweet helpers this week come over! Thanks guys!
A visit from Jason and Molly!
One of the quirks about our girl is that she gets hot and sweaty really easily.
This is her hair after a bunch of playing and sweating ;)
She sure loves her daddy! and she loves to go up-side-down!
She also doesn't want to be left out when it's time for playing piano.
School has been rough this week. Lots of transitioning here with schooling our big kids at home while having a super fun and super cute baby in the midst. :/ and to boot my back was bad ALL week. (Painful all day!) Let's just say it was not my best homeschooling week. But we survived.
When she doesn't want to be put down she lets you know by her leg-death-grip. Funny girl!
After seeing me ice my back all week baby girl thought she would give it a try.
Very sympathetic girl :)
More school with a baby crawling on them, sitting on them, turing their pages for them...
She's such a doll!
Lots of new things to try with our littlest. On this night we busted out the old trike that was Fashion Faith's first trike (now almost 10 years old, yikes!) and Lightening Hope LOVED it! Before we knew it she was pursing her little self in and out of the garage forward and backward.
We also got out C-dub's first helmet.
Baby girls loves to brush her teeth. She must have done this at her foster center cause she knows just what to do.
A tired day during stations...
Molly came to help last Thursday! AMAZING!
Swept, mopped, cooked, played, "mathed" ;), payed attention to...
This morning the girls made me breakfast. So sweet!
This afternoon after our social worker left we had a visit from some family. (My Aunt Ann and cousin Joan from down south and my Aunt Kathy.)
So great to see them and introduce them to our girl!
This ice cream truck man always comes by late and drives pretty fast. Even if I did want to let the kids get ice cream he is always gone before we would be able to catch him. With the weather cooling off so nicely we had the windows open in the house tonight and I heard him coming around the block. Anyhow, I always say, "No." Tonight it was a "YES!" Gotta throw in some fun here and there right?
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