A Picture Says a Thousand Words

All: Can you tell I had way too much fun at the Park? T

Dialogue 2006

Hi Family and Friends -----
As many of you know our year started with a bang….. On January 12th we were approved as a Therapeutic Foster to Adopt Home for the State of Texas’ Child Protective Services and entered the Legal Risk Foster to Adopt program through their cooperative program with DePelchin Children’s Center. However, God had other plans, on January 10th (yep 2 days before our official approval) A’s cousin called us just as we were leaving my favorite restaurant (Applebees in Magnolia) and said I have a friend with a 4 month old baby. She went on to say that her friend needed to have him adopted ASAP and had to leave where she was staying the next day so she would need to have him a home the next evening. Well let’s see how long do you think it took us to say YES? One look at that little baby boy and it was confirmed, this was our child.

We are doing great and enjoy every moment of mommy and daddy life. T has changed our lives drastically; he is the absolute joy of our lives. We are attending Allendale Baptist Church and are currently teaching 3 and 4 year olds in Sunday School. We still have Faith the kitty, she’s 9½ now and does not take anything from our 2-year-old lab mix Josie who thinks T is her baby.

T is so handsome and sweet; he’s 15 months old now and weighs in at 24.5 pounds and is 31 inches long. He just started walking and says, momma, daddy, Osie (for Josie), kitty, Uh-Oh, please, thanks (every once in awhile you’ll get a thank you), see, lights, HUSH (to the dog). He points and says something that sounds like "What’s that?" Our prayer is that T’s adoption will be finalized in 2007 and he will officially (by order of the law) become what we already believe in our hearts….. our SON.

We wish you all a blessed Christmas a time for peace, love and joy. Our verse for this year has been James 1:27: Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this to visit orphans.