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Handstand ABCs

A couple of years ago when I was pregnant with Caedmon I enrolled Leighton in gymnastics at our local recreation center. It was actually “Mommy and Me” gymnastics which is a lot of fun when one is 7 months pregnant. I did it because Leighton was very timid and hesitant climbing and exploring and very […]

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Giraffe Feeding

There really isn’t a time or stage that my boys have gone through that I haven’t liked or enjoyed. Whether its been the itty bitty stage with frequent wakings and feedings but special little snuggles, to the first smiles, to first steps, to the active and talkative life of a pre schooler. However Caedmon has […]

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Month of Love

We welcomed the beginning of February with snow and cold temperatures. This month is all about love. I often feel like it is too commercialized and too fake, but it got me thinking the other day. I had spent some time looking at the waiting children on one of the adoption site and I realized […]

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Working Hard

  For Christmas my brother got the boys a red truck that they can drive around the yard and my parents got them matching wheel barrows and garden tools. They couldn’t be happier. Any day that it is decently nice (a term used loosely, basically if I can bundle them warm enough they its deemed […]

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Dear Edric

Dear Edric- Hey sweet boy! We got updated photos of you today and from looking at the photos you got a copy of the photos that we sent in with our file months ago. We’re your new family! I mailed you some photos in your first package but I don’t think you’ve gotten them yet. […]

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Adoption Update

If you guys can please be praying, Korea has not set their quota yet for this year of how many EPs they are going to approve and grant. EPs are Emmigration or Exit Permissions. Typically it has been about 10% fewer then the previous year (although they fell short of their goal by close to […]

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Lego Fire

For Christmas Leighton got a Lego Firehouse. And not just any Lego Firehouse, a Lego Firehouse that came with 753 pieces to be exact. He was so excited after he opened it Christmas morning he didn’t want to do anything else. It was so fun to watch his little eyes light up. And so he […]

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