About our Journey

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Lee and Tami have been married for 22 years. We have two daughters the old fashion way, Savannah is our oldest daughter, she is 23. Alyx, our second daughter is 17. And we have five children via God's gift of adoption, Graci, who came home from China to join our family in 2007, is 7, and Dax, who came home from Guatemala in 2007 to join our family, is 6. Thad and Kamby joined our family in Dec. 2009 from Ethiopia. They are both 4 years old. Susi, our latest addition, came home from China(Aug. 2011) is 6 years old.Now we are on our way back to China to bring home our precious 3 year old son, JJ.

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Too Cute Not To Share

Dax turns 5, celebrating at Sunday school with cookies


No matter what Susi is doing, she will always stop to smile for the camera


Bed time story time, my five with their friend, Ava


Dax loves playing in pud


So does Graci


This is Thad's burrito. When it was served, believe it or not, it was wrapped tightly and completely looked like a burrito


Sweet Kamby, she is a charmer


Hard at work, Kamby is really focusing


Silly girl


See ya mom


The three musketeers, they are best friends!


Hands down, corn on the cob is Susi's favorite food


Kamby doing a little Kareoke while sitting on the potty


That ready to go as soon as he goes potty. He would do awesome with the sqatties in China.


The baking crew - Alyx, Serenity, and Graci made peanut butter cookies, ginger cookies, and brownies. YUM!


Baths in the backyard. This is actually the first time we have showered them in the backyard. Alyx had just mopped the floor inside and I didn't want them tracking through it plus I was really tired. So we just hosed them down, lathered them up, right out on the concrete slab. They loved it! I hope none of our neighbors were watching.
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Susi's 1st Month Home

First Sunday at church and Sunday school


First haircut (with us anyway)


First pancake/waffle Saturday with Daddy


First babydoll


First movie/campout in the playroom with brother and sister


First 'pud play' in the backyard


First 'pud play'

First burrito (she loved it and ate the whole thing)


First tea party


First ping pong game (with us anyway)


First day of home school


First stick on fingernails (with cousin Serenity)


First bath/shower in the backyard after playing in the new sandbox

We have had a wonderful first month with our girl. She is a pure delight! Every time I come home or go in to get her after sleeping she flaps her arms, bounces up and down and squeals, "MOMMY, MOMMY, MOMMY!" It is quite precious! Susi is super smart and a very quick learner. She is catching on to English, using her words, and memorizing Bible verses, she loves to learn. She started Awana cubbies a few weeks ago and absolutely loves it. She was so proud of earning her vest and book after memorizing her verses. Saying her verse to her cubbie leader (who happens to be her big sister, Savannah) was the first time she really spoke to others voluntarily. Now she asks to say her verses. We thought that Susi would like to use her wheelchair around the house but she prefers to crawl and scoot. She can get up to the table by herself, into her reading chair, and up to her desk. She is quite independant, but if given a preference she would like mommy to do things for her. One of our routines she picked up on very fast was looking in the mirror. After, I do the girls' hair they look in the mirror and we say "whoooooowhee, how pretty is _____________? So pretty!" She asks every morning and every night if she can look in the mirror and she gets a huge smile on her face when we whoooowheeee her! Susi just loves all her siblings, she continues to adjust to Thad a little more than the rest but she loves them all. Thad's style of love is a little rougher and more abrupt than the others. She is now down to just flinching when he comes to hug and kiss her (and zerbert her). He even gets her to zerbert his tummy now in exchange for NOT zerberting her. Thad's zerberts tend to resemble spitting a little more than zerberting. Susi doesn't get why we find it so charming, ha-ha! All in all, it has been a great months of firsts and we are looking forward to many, many more!
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