November Changes

Hey Family all over the world,

I want to do a quick run down of the events that have happened in the last 2 months.

In the 6 weeks while I was away, a lot of construction was done on the baby house. We got a new roof  and our play room was expanded. It looks so wonderful and now having worked in our new playroom with the kids it had been such a blessing. There is a year between our youngest oldest, and our oldest youngest (i hope you can follow that). It is great to have two separate areas for the movers and non-movers. We even have tile in the rooms now too which is much easier to clean than the old carpet we had before.

Multitasking with EJ and A

We have two new Babies! Baby EJ and Baby A came through Impact Africa. They both arrived at just a few days old. They are now 6 weeks and 9 Weeks old.

EJ

Baby A is all done with pictures

Since we have two new babies, it means we had two adoptions!

On October 19th my Little Minnie Mouse was united with her forever family From Sweden.   Well, Im not sure what else to say about it.....
    As Nicole sent me pictures and told me stories of the day it seems like they are so in love with their little girl. I sat in bed at 4 in the morning waiting for some sort of news or pictures. All the Aunties constantly kept me updated and told me how settled she looked and how close she was to walking when they came back to visit. Warms my heart to hear all good stories. To be honest, with her being so stubborn and a little difficult, I expected it to be a rougher transition but it seemed like the Lord kindness and sovereignty was in the midst of the transition. Maybe my absence did help?
 
Im sad that I wasn't able to be there. I feel like I missed out on something special getting to meet her new parents and experience her transition. I definitely think there was a reason why I wasn't there. God coordinated the timing so perfectly that I missed the adoption and the visit after to the baby house being in America. Im not angry about it  more sad but, I wish I knew why I couldn't be there. Maybe ill know 5 years or 20 years from now or maybe its a question ill have to ask God when I stand before Him in heaven. God always knows best right?!
I hope they can see how much I love her and what a special bond we shared over the 14 months together. I loved her as if she were my own daughter and I hope it shows.

*I really enjoyed our shopping trip before I left to buy her adoption outfit ; ) 

Laying in her Mommy's Arms

Baby T (tiny t even though she is far from tiny : ) Went to her family Two weeks ago! She is our second youngest adoption going at 7 1/2 months.
Her birth mom signed her adoption consent the week that T was born and so her adoption went very fast. I wish I could give her birth mom a big hug! What a selfless sacrifice to put her own emotions aside and do what she knew was best for her daughter. She is so courageous.
T’s new family is super cute. They live locally here in Joburg and the best news of all is that they love Jesus!!!!!! (Just to clarify, just because they live 90 min from us we wont ever see her again. JHB is still huge. There might be a greater chance of running into them than lets say than one of our kids in Europe but thats all )  T is super smiley when she is happy and very unhappy when she is bored or frustrated. Her best friend in the house was Toddler H. I don't think i have seen H love one of the small babies has much as he loved T. So cute.  All the best to T and her cute parents!

The Lord bless you and keep you;  the Lord make his face shine on you and be gracious to you. the Lord turn his face toward you and give you peace. 
Numbers 6:24-26