Jonah's Ants

Jonah got bit by an ant a few months ago. Since then he calls every bug an "ent". A few days ago, he comes in from the garage saying "ent, ent" and holds out his hand. When he opens it, there's a dead cockroach. It was all I could do not to freak out! I tried to explain to him not to pick up bugs and certainly don't bring them to mommy :) Gotta love boys!

Savannah Train Museum

We visited the train museum in Savannah while Wanda was here. We didn't realize most of it was outside and its was 100 degrees out. The boys still loved it. They are renovating it too, so by next year it should be even better. The gift shop had more Thomas stuff than Toys R Us. We couldn't get the boys out of there. Clay and the boys posed in front of a steam engine with its tender. (i've seen way too much Thomas).



this is the back of the officer's car.









There was an caboose you could go in and the boys ventured up in the loft.






















And, of course, there was a huge model train that mesmerized the boys.

Fun with Grammy

Clay's mom was here last weekend so we did all the local fun stuff. Here we are at The Sandbox, our local kids' museum. She and Jackson did quite the art work. Jonah would stay the whole day in the sand.

More News From Russia

Our social worker emailed me yesterday and we are number 4 on the list of 25! Clay and I were excited about this b/c we really had no idea where we fell. We also don't have to re-do any paperwork at this point which was also good news. If you're bored one night and need something to read check out the US Embassy in Russia's website at http://moscow.usembassy.gov/consular/consular.php?record_id=adoptions
It tells in much detail the procedures that we will go through when we're there. Most of what it describes will be on our 2nd trip.

Good News From Russia!

We got this email from our social worker today. This is very good news for us. It means things are finally moving along. Woohoo!

We have just confirmed with Dr D that Adopt A Child in PA (one of two agencies accepting Bethany home studies) has received written confirmation of their re-accreditation. This is indeed good news for all those families who have been waiting and other families who are interested in a Russian adoption but hesitated to apply because of the delay of accreditation.

Dr. D will begin submitting the dossiers of waiting families in the order that he received them. Sam will be contacting you if your family needs to update documents at this time. It will probably be a couple weeks before we can determine how quickly submitted dossiers will be acted on in the regions. It is summer and many officials are still on their vacation. We have approximately 25 families in process at this time for Dr. D regions.


Thank you all for your prayers! Keep it up!