We started on Monday with going over to their foster home. I got to see Shiloh meet them for the first time! The older little boy was ADORABLE! When he saw us, he just reached out his arms and yelled, "Hello!" He has such a love for life! Shiloh was so into playing with the toys and the boys that at one point boy #1 was trying to get him to pay attention to him and not the toy! But, Shiloh really was great with them, wrestling and just laying on the floor getting to know them. It was great! We did not want to leave...... So! We came back the next day for more playtime. We took them to McDonald's and had lunch. That was fun, too, actually having them out with us all by ourselves. The baby wanted to be near us the whole time and you could tell he felt safe in our arms--which is good! We are going to work very hard on bonding--a word you hear lots of in any adoption.
Today was Physical Therapy and Horse Therapy day. The boys have an hour of this each week. We met their therapist and got to see what sort of things she will do with them. Then, I road up with foster mom to the East Mountains to take them to their horse therapy. This is where they build up the muscles in their core to get more balance and strength in their hips and legs. The boys are improving and enjoying the therapy at the same time! It was great day! Shiloh will get to go next week with them.
All of this is moving quickly for state adoption standards. We are just following along and letting God led us to the next step. We'll go as far as He allows with hopefully having the boys in our home forever.
Thank you for your prayers! Please keep praying about the next step which is a hearing on Jan. 5th regarding their future.
And for just one amazing note, I have to say that by some miracle....we did a lot of nesting this weekend. We put the boys' room together, we bought a Christmas tree, spent a couple of days figuring out how the tree lights were going to work, put up outside lights, decorated the tree, and the inside of the house, rearranged our garage, packed up about 10 more boxes of stuff for storage and whew! we were done. This is more than we can normally do with 5 kids! So, it was a productive weekend!
It was especially fun for me getting to decorate a boy's room, since I have had the bedding packaged up for 4 years now, knowing that one day we would have a boy that would use it!!!
We'll try to post more this week.....
Jenny
PS I added these ads onto the page to get a little more cash....we'll see what it actually brings in. Please let me know if you see something that shouldn't belong! Thanks!
2 comments:
How exciting! So glad that the boys seem so open to you both. I totally see Shiloh wrestling with them on the floor. :-) God is good. I will keep praying. Love you!
I am so excited that you are sharing your adoption adventure! You have an awesome family and so much love to give. I continue to pray for you all. Enjoy those little boys!
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