What's on your face?

Today Oliver was playing with a cup by making it suction around his mouth. I saw him doing it and thought nothing of it, untill Travis came home. As soon as he saw Oliver he said, "What happened to your face?" With Oliver having allergies, we are always suspicious of an allergic reaction to something. I laughed and said, "oh, he is fine. He was just playing with a cup so it's a little red," not knowing what it had done to his face. When I saw his face, I just died laughing. He looked like he was growing facial hair in the perfect place of a gotee. There were little specks of blood all over his chin and it was purple and blue like a hickie. And the ironic part is, they have pictures on Saturday!! I really hope it goes away by then. The pictures don't really do it justice, it is really comical to see it.

chillin"

What child is this?

Homestudy

I just met our social worker who will be doing our home study on Saturday. It wasn't as scary as I thought it was going to be. You've heard horror stories of social workers I am sure too. But she was very nice and it was a relaxed first meeting. I gave her our initial paperwork and fee so...it's officially started. It renewed my excitement for adoption. We talked a lot about international vs. domestic and initially we were sold on international. But after visiting about the needs here in the US it opened my eyes to the possibility. Travis and I are going to pray that God will show us where to proceed but we are excited for whatever path we take. It is so heartbreaking to think of all the children out there and the one's yet to be born that will wait for someone to love them and show them God's love. Christ has called us to care for the widows and orphans and be that someone for them in any way we can, prayer, sponsoring a child, adopting.
Pray with us and for us we go through this journey.

Born to Ride

At Travis's cousins house, Thatcher wanted to ride his bike. He had to settle for just sitting on it. We told him to give us 13 or more years to worry about this and then he can ride. Time is on his side though, it'll be here before we know it.

Snow day!

Because of the blizzard, Travis came home early on Monday and stayed on Tuesday. We were so happy to have him home during the week, it felt like another weekend for us. The streets were cleared enough to get out so we ventured out hoping we wouldn't get stuck. Our side street is usually the last to get plowed :( and our van doesn't get around very well. As we were driving through the snow, Travis exaggerated the situation to be funny. The boys really enjoyed his hysterics. We treated the boys to a slushy and pretzel (more butter than pretzel) at Auntie Anne's-I restrained myself to only a couple of bites. But the most memorable part of our outing was squeezing all 5 of us into a little picture booth. Picture this in your head if you can, Travis gets in-all 6'3'' of him followed by Oliver and Thatcher who both sit on his lap. Then I get in holding Sebastian. Travis then attempts to put his crumbled dollar bills into the slot as the boys squirm and bicker about touching and breathing on each other. Why didn't we put the money in first? The machine kept spitting the last bill back out while Travis is juggling the boys on his lap, he even drops it. By then we are laughing at the chaos and irony of the situation-all to get a silly picture that doesn't turn out anyway! We finally get through the 4 poses and by then 2 of the 3 kids are crying and we are yelling at each other. Feel the love? We fall out of the booth and start laughing again when we see the pictures replayed on the screen. They show instant replay of the session, even in between the shots. Very funny to see us trying to get all 5 of us into a little frame-which we didn't succeed at that. I think one of my eyes is in one picture. But the memory will last forever. I am going to try and scan the picture onto the computer so I can post it-I know you will appreciate seeing the results.