Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Really Amazing
This is the winner of Ukraine's Got Talent. She's telling the story of WWII with sand art. Really astonishing...
Fall is Here
My favorite time of year...the change from summer to fall. Cool, brisk mornings, warm afternoons. Ah... I need a hammock in the backyard (and some time to lay in it :-) ).
The kids are settling into the crazy schedule. We are surviving...
Ha! I'm watching a naked little boy make his way to the potty. Micah is doing well with pottying on the potty. We have to be very diligent though about taking him...he doesn't always tell us.
Blake is busy with Church, FCA, Band, 4H and Facebook. Hannah is involved in several things at Church, Band and excelling in her studies. Bethany and Seth are still kids who just like to play. :-) I miss those days with Blake and Hannah. The good thing is that the three little guys will probably always like to play and be content to be at home...
Eli is going to and endocrinologist this morning to see what we can do for him. He's not growing at all (in the last 18 months or more) and he's very lethargic. His blood count is still good, so it's something else. This is about the last place we can go so hopefully he'll be able to help. It's like he's stuck at age 2 and can't move forward. Weird.
Matthew is doing great. He's coming out of his shell. He's babbling (yeah, that's like a baby, but when we got him he made no sounds except crying). He spoke a few days ago at school and said "I want." We didn't hear it but the teacher were so excited!
Blessed be the Name of the Lord!
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Long night
2:30 a.m. -- Dog barking hysterically (he got left outside last night...usually he comes in at bedtime and is crated)
2:45 a.m. -- Search helicopters flying around neighborhood (maybe that's why the dogs in the neighborhood were going crazy?)
3:30 a.m. -- Maniacal cackling coming from Matthew's bed. He was sitting in his crib, banging his head on the bars and laughing like a hyaena (they laugh, right?)
4:00 a.m. -- More banging, no laughter
sometime after 4:30 went back to sleep only to be wake up at 5:00 a.m. to get ready for the day.
Now...6:00 p.m. ... ready for bed. Resistance if futile...but I must. The little kids don't go to bed for another hour and the big kids have 2 more hours...then it's off to sleepy land. :-)
Micah has had TWO great days at school in a row!! That's a huge PRAISE GOD!
We moved him to morning class so he's back on his normal schedule of eating lunch then taking a nap in the afternoon. Also changed the IEP to allow the teachers to use a spray bottle of vinegar when he spits. They had to use it once yesterday and once today and he stopped immediately.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Back in the USA
We returned to the USA last night about 8:20 p.m. after over 24 hours of traveling to get home. We had a good trip. Productive in many areas of ministry. Gus, the founder/director of Ukraine Ministries of Oklahoma and good friend, held a conference for summer camp leaders whom UMO has supported for several years. It was to talk about what occurred in camps over the summer, encourage the leaders and teach from God's Word. Also, we've been praying about the direction of UMO for several months and a shift occurred during the trip this year. UMO is probably going to be supporting a church start in Brovary (where our American missionary friend, Jamie, lives). We'll see what God does.
On the adoption ministry front, there are lots of options. Lots to be done. Lots of kids who need families. Praying...thinking...need to act. God's will be done.
Blessed be the Name of the Lord!
Irritated
http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/09/23/behar.gay.adoption/index.html?eref=rss_latest
I shall make no other comment.
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Buddy Walk 09
Here are pics from the Walk. It was fun watching the little boys enjoy all the festivities.We missed Blake,who was at a band contest, and of course Chris still in Ukraine.Thanks to Wayne Dickinson for making the T-Shirts and to Ms. Wartha for joining in on the fun!
Dinner with George
I had the pleasure of meeting George for dinner last night in Darnitsa. George was the regional facilitator who assisted us with our adoptions. We had a delightful time looking at pictures and remembering highlights of the 6 weeks we were her in the winter.
George filled in a few more details that we didn't know...
If you've been a reader throughout our adoptions, you know that we were facing a 5-10 day wait on our boys' passports. When George visited the birth city to get the boys registration numbers changed (basically a social security number), he was told that he couldn't do it there, but had to do it in Novograd and Romaniv where the boys were living. He was also told that there were no "old style" passports available so they would have to be sent to Kiev and the waiting periods would apply. Well...George was unable to get it done for several days (because he couldn't find the right person available to help). During that time of trying to get it done, he found out that they were supposed to be changed in the birth city (which happened to be the capital of Zhytomyr region). So it was decided that we would do it the same time we ordered the passports. Well, when we got to the Zhytomyr after getting the boys out to order the passports, he called a friend who happened to be a lawyer and she assisted him with facts that the old style passports were available. When he went to passport office, he dropped a few names and was finally told that they did, indeed have the old passports but if he had changed the registration numbers, then we still couldn't have the passports. Because of God's intervention, he was unable to get the numbers changed so we were able to get old style passports. In fact, we had them within 1 hour! Praise God.
The other thing he told me was that the friend that had helped us get the passports refused to take any money or any kind of gift. She just wanted to help us.
Praise the God of miracles.
Blessed be the Name of the Lord.
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