Three Days in a Row

Since I am making a photo album out of my blog eventually, I thought I should include these other fun pictures from Wednesday when we stopped by the Lovelands.

 Claire, Zach and Nora

 Lily, Isaiah, Nora, Zach & Zoe

 Love those two sets of brown eyes peeking over the ledge with Lily!

 Reading yesterday with Claire and Isaiah

Yesterday afternoon Owen and Gibson Scott came over (and Maria, too!). While the kids don't look so happy in this picture, don't let them fool you. They had a blast riding bike together and playing at the park!

 Claire and Owen

 Zoe and Gibson

And that is where the fun ended. Isaiah's right shoe/foot got stuck between the purple rod and the spokes. He was screaming and neither Maria nor I could get his foot out of his shoe or his shoe unstuck. A guy walking his dog across the street came over and helped me get it unstuck. Thank the Lord! Fortunately, Isaiah is as limber as a pretzel and he was fine after the initial shock. I honestly think the strange guy being involved scared him more than anything. Isaiah stared him down as far as he could watch him walk away.

Today some friends of ours from Burlington, who adopted Aliya from Ethiopia in June, stopped by to visit.

So, this made day three of my kids playing with other sweet, adopted brown kids (I didn't take a picture yesterday morning when we played a the park with Jaida, too!). And it was very unintentional. I love that this is our normal life - surrounded by adoption and surrounded by other African and brown-skinned kids. What an incredible blessing for our kids to have this gift. It seems so normal to me (and definitely to my kids who don't know anything different), but when I step back, not many people have two of their best friends who have adopted brown-skinned babies and not many people have a church and neighborhood full of adopted kids. It is an INCREDIBLE BLESSING from God!