Our Kids (An email we received from Joanne about Lillia and Anabella)

Greetings to all our faithful readers! We have been really missing our kids these last couple of days. As long as we are progressing in our adoption, and feeling like each day is one day closer to coming home, we have been ok. But, since Friday, we have been sitting around, making no progress on the adoption. And so it has made missing Lillia and Anabella that much harder. So, for a change of pace, we decided to include here an email we received today from Joanne (John's mom) about our girls. They seem to be doing just fine (much better than us!).

From Joanne....
Good Morning, at least it is here in Big Sky:

Just read your last posting, how discouraging. As you wrote only God can work things out the way they are intended to be.

We went to Lillia’s favorite store yesterday, Costco, however she did tell us that Home Depot was also her favorite store. We were privileged to have Anabella throw a temper tantrum. It was actually quite hilarious, however it did not get her what she wanted, which was to be carried. She only wanted me to carry her and I can only do that for a short period of time, she is rather heavy. Gramps eventually took her to the truck. She is quite the little character. She is getting a little bit of a cold and is really sleeping a lot.

Nate Bartlett stopped here overnight and Lillia was totally thrilled. She jabbered away to him and he just nodded his head from time to time, as he couldn’t understand a word she was saying. We are doing fine with her speech, most of the time we can both understand her. Lillia helped me bake a BD cake for gramps this morning and now she is outside helping him put the posts on the front porch.

Anabella has discovered a great fun thing to do, feed Nika her food piece by piece. Last night I thought she had done so well with dinner, her plate was totally clean. I was on the phone to my parents and Gramps was watching her, however she had fed what she didn’t want to the dog. She thinks it is quite fun. This morning she started to feed her the cornflakes one by one. From now on Nika will be outside when we eat. Both girls are being really good with the dog and she is being super good with the girls.

John, Dad would like to know what is supposed to be happening on your house, who should be there, etc. We may go over in a couple of weeks and check up on things. We are kind of waiting to see what your plans end up like. Lord willing you will know by the end of the week what is happening and how much longer you will have to be over there.

Well must run and get a few more things done before Anabella wakes up. Have a great day. Love M & D, Lillia and Anabella