All Good Things Must Come to an End

Including Grammy (or 'G-Bee' as Abram has started to call her, which cracks us all up!) moving out of our basement and into her and Ed's recently purchased house in Ames. While she is only moving a few blocks away (five blocks from our current house and two blocks from our new house!), there is a little boy who will definitely be missing his G-Bee. And all the . . .

Fun

Early morning hang-out timeReading timeTLC when Abram was sickMore reading timeSewing timeAbram loved helping Grammy sewAnd of course, lots of playing timeThank you mom for all the fun, the LOADS of free babysitting, help with laundry, help with hair cuts and help with a hundred other things - including coming upstairs to get Abram in the middle of the night a couple weeks ago when he fell out of his big boy bed and we did not hear him (oops!). We loved having you live with us! Glad you will still be close.

Sorry to make you cry, mom, but I had to do this post!

My Birthday

I had to share a couple wonderful gifts I got for my birthday. The first is the famous (to my fellow C-country/Africa adopting moms) necklace.

The second is another necklace I got from my mother-in-law that is purple (of course!). It is a little hard to see the 'T' at the end, but it says, ADOPT. I have never seen anything like this and I love it. Also, her purchase of this gift for me helped feed one orphan for a month. SWEET!Probably my favorite gift on my birthday was getting to watch my boy play with his new train in his p-poppers in the morning. Even though I have been a mom for almost two years now, I can still remember the aching feeling of not being a mom. Which is why hearing Abram say, "watch mommy" is my absolute favorite sound in the world right now.He also got a little electrical Thomas.
We like to have extended birthday celebrations around here. My friend, Molly, came and stayed with us Tuesday night. On Wednesday Jason took the day off. We ate Thai food for lunch. YUM!
I was really hoping Abram would love it. He tried a pad Thai noodle and ate a couple bites of fried rice but that was about it. We'll have to keep trying.
After lunch we went to see the horses on campus (behind Fredricksen Court).

Abram also got to see a train go by (you can see it in the background), which provided double the entertainment.

We had a great time.

Abram's Birth Family

I took everything off Abram's bedroom walls last week to pack them. I happened to set the picture frame of his birth family on the table temporarily. He loved getting to look and touch the pictures. It was a great time to talk about his family in Texas and remind him of how much they love him. And how much we love them, too!