Our Story...

Sunday, October 2, 2011

It's a slow fade...

It's a slow fade folks, but it appears I'm turning Tiger!

My kids sing the fight song, they wear the clothes,

We bought a family sports pass!

I'm afraid there's no turning back.

From a Bison to a Tiger,

It's a tough change, but I'll do it for my kids. ;)

They love eachother!

They REALLY do.

(The times before now that I said this, it may have been a little bit wishful thinking.)

Felix' class lead Friday assembly for the grade school on Homecoming week! He was in charge of telling the joke. I'm not sure that anyone understood, but we all gave him the courtesy laugh!

He did a great job with "5 Little Monkeys Jumping in the Bed".

He was excited enough to rehearse it for me a few times that morning before going.

He looks like the happiest kid there, if you ask me.

We had a small family party to celebrate MK's three years of living! She's our little firecracker who has made her presence known since day one. We can't imagine life without her! She's full of expression! She's a mommy, princess, dancer, singer, entertainer...

MK's life has been rocked the past few months and I can say today that she's finally returning back to the child we knew before the changes. Going from the oldest, only, top dog to the youngest, sharing sister can be hard on a two year old (and the rest of the family).

The next day we took off for OKC for a little more celebrating. (Blog post to follow...)

The weekend continues...

So, Thursday was the birthday party at home and Friday we load up to OKC. We had adventures waiting for us! Meet Timothy and Paul! They are Felix' friends from his same orphanage in Uganda. Felix was happy to see his old friends who he had not seen for 6 months. We shared our first Chuck E Cheese experience with them.

Next stop Saturday morning was the OKC Zoo. Felix loves animals and had been begging to go to the zoo for months. Besides the incredible heat, it was a good time!

Final stop, before departure was an eye exam from my college bud Jennifer. Great news there for all (even me, who supposedly has a "lazy" eye)! :)

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Miss Teeny

Since MK turned three, we now go to WW for her OT twice a week. She had been a little jealous of Felix going to school, so I told her that this was her school. One of her teacher's names is Tina. Last week I heard this conversation between Felix and MK...
Felix: I go to school.
MK: I go to school too!
Felix: What's you teacher's name?
MK: Teeny
Felix: (cracks up laughing) Teeny!
MK: (yells angrily at Felix) Don't laugh at me!

Sedah

As I was editing pictures the other day, MK looks at the picture of a girl around her age (who she does not know) and tells me that she is her best friend. I look at her questioning and in all seriousness she tells me that her name is Sedah (pronounced Say-dah). Since then I've heard her using the name several times. I guess we have a new friend.

MK...What are you doing?

Roger has been tucking Felix in at night while I enjoy listening to it over the monitor. A few weeks ago this was the prayers...

Felix: Thank you for mommy
Thank you for daddy
Thank you for Jesus

MK: Thank you for mommy
Thank you for daddy
Thank you for pictures

As I listened to tonights bedtime prayers I heard them both give their list of thankfulness and then Roger interrupts loudly...

Roger: MK...What are you doing?
MK: I'm licking you!
Roger: I know. Let's not do that.
(Roger came down to tell me that she was licking his arm all the way up like a cat.)

Friday, August 12, 2011

The more we get together, together, together...

Did you sing that song in pre-K? I'm getting myself geared up for school starting next week remembering songs. We also did alot of "Where is thumbkin..." My favorite was "Going on a Bear Hunt". School starts next Wednesday!

We had a fun visit from my aunt and some of her grandchildren (my cousin's children) last week. Here the boys were riding motorcycles. Boden said they were model 1,000 and 3,000 bikes.