Picture update

Things have been moving along at a fairly normal pace the past few weeks, so I thought I'd just put up a few recent pictures.The children all like to climb on Timothy or myself at the same time. We sure love them! The mattress you can see in the back ground is the "jumping place." We put it on the floor in the living room and that's where the children can jump and jump without getting into any trouble. (They love to jump - on couches, beds, chairs, etc. - so we had to provide a constructive place to get their need to jump met.)A family in our ward at church were able to get sealed in the temple a few weeks ago, so we decided to take the two hour drive up to the temple to view the sealing and take the children to see the temple. They're not able to go in, but we had some nice youth from our ward watch them outside while we went in. The children loved the temple and are looking forward to going back when we can have them sealed to us forever!
Our sweet boys!

We are waiting on a decision from the judge about Hyurm's legal case - his birth-mother's rights. I guess the judge has 30 days to decide, so we wait. We're are hoping and praying that the birth-mother's right will be terminated and that she doesn't decide to petition the decision. But, we'll see how it all goes.

The children are learning and growing like crazy! We are so proud of them and amazed at how fast time flies. They've already been with us for six months and have grown and changed so much in that amount of time.
Hyrum trying out pasta. He just loves to eat table food, but still enjoys the baby food too. You may not believe this, but Hyrum, who is only 9 months, is trying to talk. He says things all the time that amaze us. He's been saying, "Mom" and "Dada" consistently for about 5 or 6 weeks now. He also says, "All done," "baba" (bottle), "Hyrum," "Beta" (Becka), and "ca-ker" (cracker). And he repeats us when we talk - he's repeated, "I love," "poo-poo," "diaper cover," "thank you," and "bye-bye". He is amazing! He's also doing the army crawl really well now. He can get whereever he wants to go in the house now- except where there are baby gates. :) He's also started pulling himself up to a standing position now too.



Miss Rebekah is learning and growing well too. She's talking like crazy and we can understand most of what she says. She's communicating regularly in two to three word sentences, but she has said a six- or seven-word sentence - I can't remember what it was, though. She runs and walks well without tripping nearly as much as she used to. She's learned how to jump with both of her feet off the ground and loves jumping on the "jumping place" now. Her hair is growing lots too. This picture was taken just after her last hair cut. I'm keeping it short until the hair on the top of her head is as long as the rest. She's just about ready to start growing it out - as long as I can keep up with her curls.

Brigham is at a stage where he isn't learning and growing quite as fast as his younger siblings, but he's still progressing nicely. He notices everything. He likes to play with the other daycare children that come over - especially the 5- and 8-year old because he wants to be like them - but he also likes playing with the two-year olds that come over. He loves church and asks almost everyday if we can go to church on Sunday. He's learning to pray and just today I caught him kneeling down outside saying his own little prayer aloud - it was so cute!

We've had a great six months with these chidlren - and here's to another 16-18 years with them!!