10/18/2007
Which boy was doing his own thing?
We took "the boys" David, Matthew and Jayden for their now annual photo shoot. This particular shot took about 10 minutes to "capture"...give you one guess as to which boy was constantly running out of the frame?
10/10/2007
Yeah, Baby, Yeah
For the last several years, I have participated in our office football pool. It's $5 a week to participate. Before you think that's a terrible way to spend your money, please note that I won a couple weeks of pools the first year I played. I managed to win enough to pay for that season but also the season's since.
I took one year off and decided to jump in again this year. It had to be fluke, I don't watch football, let alone have a concept of which team is better than another.
Well, I AM BACK ON TOP BABY I am ranked number 1...wooo hoooo.
We'll see if I can hold on to it but for now...WOOOOO HOOOOOO!!!!!!!!
I took one year off and decided to jump in again this year. It had to be fluke, I don't watch football, let alone have a concept of which team is better than another.
Well, I AM BACK ON TOP BABY
We'll see if I can hold on to it but for now...WOOOOO HOOOOOO!!!!!!!!
10/09/2007
My little singer
Jayden has always loved music. In the car, he's been trying to "sing" to Mercy Me, SCC and others since before he could talk. He first started singing to "I lift my eyes" and I'll have to look up the artist because I am terrible at remembering things like that.
Anyways, if we are stuck in traffic and mommy turns on the radio to find alternative routes, a fit is pitched until the CD or Klove is back on. As he gets older, he can sing more words and gets louder. We have added Veggie Tales and now Jack's Big Music Show. Jack is the new current favorite.
Lately we've moved from requesting CDs to actual songs. Let me say a two and half minute song can be repeated at least 10 times between home and school. He also remembers lyrics... I can start a line and he finishes it and with a big smile of course.
Based on all my reading, he'll have to wait until at least 4 before anyone will take him for guitar lessons...yes, I looked and the real 1/2 size guitars aren't cheap, for that matter neither are lessons. Well I have a little bit of time before that of course.
Anyways, if we are stuck in traffic and mommy turns on the radio to find alternative routes, a fit is pitched until the CD or Klove is back on. As he gets older, he can sing more words and gets louder. We have added Veggie Tales and now Jack's Big Music Show. Jack is the new current favorite.
Lately we've moved from requesting CDs to actual songs. Let me say a two and half minute song can be repeated at least 10 times between home and school. He also remembers lyrics... I can start a line and he finishes it and with a big smile of course.
Based on all my reading, he'll have to wait until at least 4 before anyone will take him for guitar lessons...yes, I looked and the real 1/2 size guitars aren't cheap, for that matter neither are lessons. Well I have a little bit of time before that of course.
10/08/2007
update
UNICEF Guatemala is joining the JCICS in it's support of grandfathering the 5000 kids into the current process ...this is awesome news. Please continue to pray. Things appear to be changing by the hour so I keep reading between things at work.
Pray for the families and their children who are caught by this and that they are united forever very quickly.
Pray for the families and their children who are caught by this and that they are united forever very quickly.
Guatemala 5000
This week many, many adoptive families will be calling, writing, emailing their senators, congressmen, Unicef and the Joint counsel on behalf of the 5000 Guatemalan babies who have been referred to forever families here in the States. At the end of this year, President Berger is shutting down all adoptions from Guatemala until the US ratifys the Hague Convention.
Families may just have received a referral or they may almost be complete with their process and regardless, these families would go on hold for an undetermined amount of time. The US is supposed to ratify late spring so on the surface, it appears it would add an additional 4-5 months to the waiting process. There are approximately 5000 children that would be impacted by this...either staying in foster care or hogars.
Apparently this is only the tip of the iceberg... I've spent as much time as possible over the last week researching what I could on-line, especially after the Anderson Cooper show on CNN. Without going into a huge rant, that was some of the poorest reporting I have seen in a very long time. Research would have gone a long way but then accurate does not always sell.
http://www.adaguatemala.org/English/news/
taken directly from the website - please follow the link and read the timeline...
LAST NEWS
The dreadful Ortega law was approved by Congress in its third reading today, Wednesday October 3rd. 2007. The final reading and actual approval will be next Tuesday. ADA is meeting with all lawyers and adoption agencies representatives this Saturday to present the emergency plan. Constitutional challenges are being prepared and we are ready do to everything that is necessary to get the transition cases home and adoptions open for the children of Guatemala. The law could take thirty days to become effective, but it could take more time. It is still undecided.
There is no question that there is a way to make millions of dollars with adoptions. Simply by making them impossible, UNICEF is rewarding our president with a 28 million donation for this accomplishment, with the complicity of the congressmen. UNICEF is using the money of the taxpayers of the First World to eliminate poverty in our Third World country, by eliminating the children of the poor, because as the UNICEF delegate said: the underdevelopment of a country begins in the uterus of a poor woman. Genocide is not a crime of war. UNICEF is showing us how it can be done, without any risk for the perpetrator. We will not remain silent while they do it. That is a promise.
ADA asks of those of you who would want to help adoptions in Guatemala to join your efforts to ours. Contact your adoption agency and they will let you know what can be done.
The concept that adoptions could be forever stopped in Guatemala is gut-wrenching. I look at my little guy and cannot fathom the privilege it is to have him in my life. He is amazing and his birthmother is one of the most courageous people I know. The Guatemala 5000 could lose a second family as a result of what is happening. The countless others whose mothers only want the best will no longer have adoption as an option.
Please, please pray tomorrow that this law will not pass. There will be thousands of children (not just the 5000) who will be caught in the crossfire of this law.
Families may just have received a referral or they may almost be complete with their process and regardless, these families would go on hold for an undetermined amount of time. The US is supposed to ratify late spring so on the surface, it appears it would add an additional 4-5 months to the waiting process. There are approximately 5000 children that would be impacted by this...either staying in foster care or hogars.
Apparently this is only the tip of the iceberg... I've spent as much time as possible over the last week researching what I could on-line, especially after the Anderson Cooper show on CNN. Without going into a huge rant, that was some of the poorest reporting I have seen in a very long time. Research would have gone a long way but then accurate does not always sell.
http://www.adaguatemala.org/English/news/
taken directly from the website - please follow the link and read the timeline...
LAST NEWS
The dreadful Ortega law was approved by Congress in its third reading today, Wednesday October 3rd. 2007. The final reading and actual approval will be next Tuesday. ADA is meeting with all lawyers and adoption agencies representatives this Saturday to present the emergency plan. Constitutional challenges are being prepared and we are ready do to everything that is necessary to get the transition cases home and adoptions open for the children of Guatemala. The law could take thirty days to become effective, but it could take more time. It is still undecided.
There is no question that there is a way to make millions of dollars with adoptions. Simply by making them impossible, UNICEF is rewarding our president with a 28 million donation for this accomplishment, with the complicity of the congressmen. UNICEF is using the money of the taxpayers of the First World to eliminate poverty in our Third World country, by eliminating the children of the poor, because as the UNICEF delegate said: the underdevelopment of a country begins in the uterus of a poor woman. Genocide is not a crime of war. UNICEF is showing us how it can be done, without any risk for the perpetrator. We will not remain silent while they do it. That is a promise.
ADA asks of those of you who would want to help adoptions in Guatemala to join your efforts to ours. Contact your adoption agency and they will let you know what can be done.
The concept that adoptions could be forever stopped in Guatemala is gut-wrenching. I look at my little guy and cannot fathom the privilege it is to have him in my life. He is amazing and his birthmother is one of the most courageous people I know. The Guatemala 5000 could lose a second family as a result of what is happening. The countless others whose mothers only want the best will no longer have adoption as an option.
Please, please pray tomorrow that this law will not pass. There will be thousands of children (not just the 5000) who will be caught in the crossfire of this law.
10/03/2007
Lovin' Jack
For those of you who are not regular viewers of the Noggin channel, let me introduce you to Jack's Big Music Show. Jack (blue), Mary (yellow) and Mel the dog are the characters to one of the best kid's shows ever. The creators were on Seasame Street for years and then launched out on their own. Each show has a different style of music (marching band, swing, scat - some of my favorites).
http://www.noggin.com/ - click on Jack... great website for the preschool set.
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