Reid and Stefani Adopt

Here's a few other things that I just wanted to post: This is all the kids at an adoption get together we had a week or so ago.  I'm glad Isaac and Esther can be around a few kids around their same ages who also have adoption stories.   This is Esther cleaning the toilet for me.  She was such a good helper with the cleaning last Saturday.  I think I felt a need to capture this moment in case she discovers later in life that cleaning toilets isn't actually a fun thing to do.  Right now, her and Isaac actually fight over who gets to clean the toilets. Some neighbors of ours invited us over for dinner and to go fishing afterwards in the pond out back.  We don't have any fishing gear and Isaac has been very jealous of others he's seen fishing.  So he finally got to catch his own fish for the first time and was very proud of himself. Last Wednesday, Isaac earned a citizenship award at school for demonstrating "Organization." ...

Here's some pix from this year's Halloween festivities thus far.  We have already been to the library's "Truck or Treat," which features cool city vehicles that the kids get to climb in.  The semi-truck horn was going off constantly, as each child got a turn to pull the cord.  I hadn't completed their planned costumes yet, so they threw on some costumes we had kicking around.  Esther was the giraffe, and Isaac was batman.   On Friday we attended the church's "Trunk or Treat."  Isaac kept calling it the "Trick or Trunk," which made me smile so much that I didn't bother to correct him.  I was supposed to be the cowardly lion, but all the spray pain in the world couldn't cover up the leopard spots on the coat we found.  Reid was the scarecrow, and Isaac the Tin Man, and Esther was Dorthy, of course.  It was a fun night.  I think tomorrow for Halloween we will just have the kids dress up.  Although, the kids certainly have ...

What was on my phone this week?  Esther showing a book she wanted to me to read to her, and Isaac playing the 100 chart floor game with me. The family playing board games together.  As a past teacher, I have games and teaching supplies hanging around the house that are not normal for other households.  This means that my 3 year old brings her reading lesson book to my husband at 6:00 in the morning begging him to do a reading lesson with her.  This also means that as I'm working on projects in the spare room, Isaac gets into my old tutoring bag and pulls out random tutoring games, like my 100 chart floor mat.  So we spend time figuring out where all the numbers go and looking at pattern in the numbers.  Luckily, we also have normal games, too.  The kids pull them out frequently and feel as if life just isn't fair if we don't get a good game or two in during the weekend.   I told Isaac I was going to update the blog today, and a...