HAPPY BIRTHDAY KUNCLE

Sunday was my oldest brother's birthday and I have been neglectful of getting pictures of Emily with her uncle. So this will be a post about Emily and her Kuncle.

No, Emily was not the first neice/nephew to name him as such. The first nephew did that, and the other 4 have followed suit and it seems to suit him well.

Emily has made up a sign language sign for him - it is a sign for sucker. I took her to see him and he tried to take her sucker, and she would tell him "no, no, no".

He also has taken her to see ducks, so now when he calls her and she hears his voice she says duck.

On the lighter side, and heavier side here are some happpenings around Emilyland:

Emily and I leave brite and early tomorrow and will fly to N*shville for Thanksgiving with Granny. Daddy and Poppa are staying behind and holding down the fort. I will post pics when I get back.

On the heavier side, Donnie is having surgery for a ruptured disk in his neck on Dec. 3. Please pray for him. I am really concerned about him. I just hate it that I am going to be away from him for Turkey Day.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!

SEED DOG

Emily pronounces her "F's" as "S's", thus the title. I was on the phone, and had the gate down and she decided the dog needed to be fed. She would fill the bowl and dump it on the floor and refill it. When this becomes her responsibility to feed the dog daily, I am going to remind her that she LOVES to feed the dog. Notice her intensity - now is that Donnie or what!!

Some other updates on Emily:

She can count to 3 ....in English and Spanish!!! Thanks to Dora for the Spanish

In October she doubled the amount of teeth. Since Jan. she had been getting 1 tooth a month, in Oct. she got about 8!!! We were just a little grouchy.

She continues to amaze us with what she says and how well she is able to communicate.

We went to the mall last Friday and she had her first Icee. Yum Yum!!! When she ate all she could she still enjoyed it...she dumped it on herself and had a ball playing in it!!

We are potty training. Some hours she is at the potty every 5 minutes, and then we have days when she won't go to the potty at all!!! I can always tell which days are going to be bad potty days. She has a potty book and she will read it out loud "NO peepee!!"

We are also working on colors a little bit. Blue seems to be her favorite color. She calls her blankies baby. We have red baby (which is red) and pink baby (pink). You can ask what color they are and they are blue!!!

NATIONAL ADOPTION DAY

Today is national adoption day. Today also marks three years that we began this journey - and what a journey it has been!!





Believe it or not the Bible has a lot to say about adoption and infertility.





Look at the story of Moses. The government said that all Hebrew babies were to be killed. But God had a different plan for Moses. How do you think Moses mother came up with the idea to put him in a basket, and float him down the river? And what about Pharoah's daughter? Do you think that maybe she was infertile and wanted a child? God moved on both of these two women's hearts.





And then there is the ultimate adoption. When we accept Jesus as our Lord and Savoir, God adopts us into His kingdom, and we become heirs to His throne!!





It is just amazing to me that God created women who could not have children to raise a child, and a woman to give birth, but not be able to mother it. It is so hard to comprehend. But I know that neither one is lesser in God's eyes.





God calls us to take care of the ophans. The statistics of children in need of a home is staggering. Please pray for these children. And for those of you waiting to adopt, I am praying for you, that He will give you peace during the wait, and that He would loosen whatever is tying up the process.

I SUPPORT ADOPTION

IN CHINA LAST YEAR

Here's our Princess overlooking the city of Changsha, Hunan China.

And we think we work hard. Yes, he is delivering 5 gallon jugs of water on his bike. Count them.

Hunan is famous for its embroidary.

This is inside the Forbidden City. The architecture of the buildings is amazing.

This is a count down clock to the Olympics. It is across the street from Tienamen Square. Donnie was taking this picture when we got seperated from our group - yes, LOST in Tienamen Square!!

Just a few pics from this time last year. I am still working on getting our pictures sorted out. I hope to be able to put up a link to the "Electronic albums" so that anyone who wants to view our pictures will be able to do so.

The whole trip to China was really incredible. I remember thinking before we left just how overwhelming it was. It was overwhelming to think that we were actually going to China, and then bringing a baby back on top of that!!! Most people don't even have a desire to go to China let alone the opportunity.

Donnie and I have great love and respect for China, and it is our hope and responsability to give Emily the same. We have a beach ball that is a globe, and we have taught her that she was born in China and lives in the USA. She knows where both are and she also says China if you ask her where she was born. I also showed her Australia and told her that I wanted Daddy to take us there, so she knows where Austraila is too LOL!!

HAPPY GOTCHA DAY

Here she is today in the outfit that she came in. This was the outer layer of 3 layers of clothes.

Happy one year anniversary of Gotcha Day to my sweet Emily. My how you have changed in 1 year. Nov. 5, 2007 is a day you will never remember, but a day I will never forget. I don't remember you not calling me Momma. Gotcha day was not a very happy day for you a year ago, but I promise it will be a happy day from now on. I love you sweet girl.
Love, Momma

AS CUTE AS CAN BEE

Did ya guess Bumble bee? Check out the pics. I didn't get very many photos and none that were real great, but you get the idea. She had a good time her favorite thing is the inflatable jumpers. She also loved that there were boxes and boxes of candy sitting on the floor. I don't give her hardly any candy, so the fact that she got to rummage through boxes of candy, she was in heaven!

Last year at the fall festival, we were running over with excitement, as we were leaving for China the next day. We decided to stay up all night (We had a 6:50 am flight), then go out for breakfast on our way to the airport. We knew we would see lots of drunks, and boy did we!! Our goal in staying up all night was that we would sleep quite a bit of the LONG flights the next day.