More Pictures

If only Isaiah didn't know I was taking the picture.Typical Isaiah . . . just hanging out with Zoe Mujinga as she plays.
This is how the boys watched part of the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade this morning.(The laundry baskets were in the living room because I actually did our laundry by myself today! Mom has still been doing much of it. The girls do their own on one day of the week, with my help; and I even have the boys help me do theirs on a separate day. I really like keeping the girls/boys/our laundry separate. It makes for much less sorting.)

Today Isaiah woke up from his nap crying (and wet, which explains why he doesn't have pants on, I was in the middle of changing him - I think he got scared when he woke up). I could tell he just needed held so I held him and was surprised that he fell back to sleep. Clearly I feel asleep as well since I am pretty sure I didn't start out with my face totally smashed against his. :)

Zoe Mujinga took a bunch of pictures tonight. I had to post this one

because it is such a typical moment in our new life . . . After dinner. In the middle of doing dishes/cleaning up the kitchen. Isaiah found some balloons to play with. Zoe is playing with the camera. And I am trying to figure out what the girls were trying to tell us at dinner so I've got the couldn't-live-without-it-Lingala-dictionary out showing the word for "understand" to Claire Muad. The girls kept asking us about something having to do with "Jingle Bells" (they would say "Ben-o-wen, ben-o-wen" to the tune of Jingle Bells). They started doing this after they saw some Christmas decorations on the neighbor's house shortly before dinner. I finally had to look up the word "understand" and try to tell them that we do not understand what they are asking about "Ben-o-wen" so we can't answer if they can do it tomorrow or not!

After "Lion King" had just started tonight. They were loving it.

I went to the store while they watched the movie because we only had two eggs left! I enjoyed getting out by myself. I did some crying the car in the Walmart parking lot, I talked to my sister while I was in Walmart and I talked to my best friend from college on the way home. All-in-all, a good little getaway for me. :)

While I was sitting in our driveway talking , the movie got over and all four kids came out the front door in their p-pops (a very cute sight!). By the time I got in Zoe had the camera out again and took this picture.

#4 Reason to be thankful for adopting older kids: There are actually pictures of Mom (and Mom and Dad together) because the kids can take them!