Foto Friday

Melissa | July 23, 2010

Wait for it…

Gotcha!

Did you ever…

Melissa | June 21, 2010

…spider swing when you were a kid?

Foto Friday

Melissa | June 4, 2010

We travelled for Memorial Day weekend.  Not sure what I was thinking when I suggested it.  It turned out traffic was not bad.  Go figure.  The kids got to eat cup cakes that when put together made a flag.  They also hung out with cousins. 
 
 
 
 
When we returned, we hit the ground running with end-of-the-year activities.  [...]

Noses are for…

Melissa | May 8, 2010

Our speech therapist has us working on functionality of things with Ty.  Like cars are for driving, bike are for riding, etc.  We were reviewing while we watched PJ play baseball (well while we were at PJ’s baseball game when he wasn’t playing):
Me: What are your ears for?
Ty: Listening.
Me: What is the chair for?
Ty: Sitting.
Patrick: [...]

Not Me! Monday: Airplane Day Edition

Melissa | April 26, 2010

Not-Me-Monday is a blog carnival started by MckMama. Hop over to her blog to see what others have NOT done this week.
I did NOT travel to the other side of the globe to pick up our third child, take hundreds of pictures, and only get one of our whole family of 5.
It did NOT [...]

Korea book

Melissa | April 18, 2010

A year ago, we were on a plane to pick up Ty!  Not sure how we did it, but we (all 6 of us) left 48 hours after receiving our travel call.  I made this book as a Christmas present for my mom and mother-in-law.

Click here to view this photo book.

From the mouth of Ty

Melissa | March 24, 2010

At prayer time tonight…
Ty: Jesus,  dank you I had… What’s dat called ‘gain, Mom?
Me: What is what called again?
Ty: Pich
Me: Pitch?
Ty: No, piiiich (pinching fingers together)
Me:  Pinch?
Ty: No.  Missue.
Me:  Miss Sue?
Ty:  Yah.  Dank you ‘at Miss Sue today.
Me:  Ooooooh.  Speech.  Is that what you were saying?
Ty:  Yah.  Dank you I had pee-sch today.
Less than a [...]

Foto Friday

Melissa | March 19, 2010

The sun has been out the better part of this week and my feet haven’t seen socks in a week.  Besides flip flops, great weather makes me happy because great weather makes great pictures!  Our first afternoon out enjoying the sun I noticed something that was definitely picture-worthy.

Ty playing constructively (pun not intended).  Not whining.  Not [...]

Baptism Pictures

Melissa | February 24, 2010

Would you believe me if I told you that Ty’s been home for 10 months this week?!?!?  It’s not the 10 months that gets me.  It’s how close 10 months is to a YEAR!  In some ways, I can’t believe it’s been almost a year that we were in Korea.  In other ways, it feels [...]

Adoption Aside

Melissa | January 6, 2010

As Ty picks up more grammar, phraseology, and vocabulary, we are becoming a bilingual family.  Our second language is Ty-ese.  While receptive and comprehensive abilities have made huge improvements (our therapists and specialists say they’ve never seen such a large jump in such a short period of time…then again, maybe because they’ve never worked with an [...]