ITS A BOY!!

Looks like we will be welcoming

Dylan Thomas Gray

to our family

in September!!

We are so excited!

Colin was jumping for joy.

The thought of 3 sisters was just too much for him:)

It seems that we are just working our way through the alphabet...

Anna Li

Bethany

Colin

Dylan

Just 22 more kids to go and we will have every letter A-Z:)

What the Future Holds???

Today we are going to discover what our little bundle of joy is!! We took the kids out of school so we can all find out together. Our appointments at 2:30 so come back and visit to learn more about our new member. Leave us a comment to let us know what you think...

Will you be hearing OR

Right now we are leaning towards:
Boy name: Dylan Thomas Gray
Girl name: Isabella (Ella) but can't think of a middle name. Any suggestions???

2nd Post of the day... Easter Pics!

More Vacations Pictures

As I was uploading the Easter pictures I realized I never posted anything about the last day of vacation... opps! Here's some pictures from our last day in Orlando. Anna Li and Colin visited the Rainforest Cafe with Dad while Bethany and I shopped for some Disney Christmas ornaments:)

This pictures is for Chad. He LOVES Ireland! Maybe we will get to go one day:)

Yes, this is my son entering an Irish Pub... he insisted on the picture because his Dad had the same picture made:)

All Legos... isn't it amazing!! Each kids picked out their favorite lego statue to stand by....

Bethany chose the sea creatures..

Anna Li chose the crab...

Colin chose the Storm Trooper....

and Dad chose the Sea dragon! Great fun but ohhh so tiring. Great to be home:)

A Day at the Doctor

Today Anna Li and I went to visit the International Adoption Clinic. I took off work and Anna Li skipped school because this is an all day process. She was tested once again to see how far she has come since she first arrived in America. Her scores were right where the specialist expected them to be. Of course she will not be on the level of all 13 year old but she is doing good and making progress. It will take many years for her to get where she needs to be but with time and patients (lots of patients) she will get there. We had a wonderful therapy session with the attachment therapist and made great progress with the attaching and bonding process. We have agreed to go back and visit once a month to help keep us on the right path and learn new ways to help make our mother-daughter bond stronger. The physical part of the exam was also good. Anna Li is a very healthy little girl. Next month we will go to the Eye Foundation for her eye check-up and to the orthodontist for a consultation for braces. We completed our visit around 3:00 and we were starving and ready for lunch. I was going to take Anna Li to her parents favorites restaurant when I got a call from my mom..... "Bethany fell and hit her head at school! It had been over an hour and it was still bleeding.... oh, and by the way she was feeling dizzy!" Uhhhh, hello!!! Take her to the emergency room, I will meet you there!! We spent 3 hours at our wonderful local emergency room (NOT)! The fully staffed one doctor was there to take care of every ones emergency medical needs#%&*#!!!!! They finally arrived and took the 2 seconds to look at her and report she was ok (thank God).



Help me figure this out... if the doctor spend 2 minutes with each patient... how come it take 3 hours to be seen. What do they do???? Go play a round of golf and each lunch between patients?



It was a wonderful way to spend my last day of vacation and now I have about 10 loads of laundry to do before bed:)

Sea World

I know this should come last but it is a pain when you have to post a lot of pictures:) Anyway, this is Colin after Sea World. I feel like he looks right now!! EXHAUSTED!!!!

The kids at the shark exhibit. Anna Li was fascinated by the aquarium that you walk through. She seen and learned so much today! Mrs. Raney would be proud:)

Touching the Sting Rays!!!

Look at their faces.... they were waiting in line for a ride but their faces look like they are not so sure they want to ride. I know Anna Li didn't but she was just doing it because Bethany was:) We laughed so hard at the look on her face as she rode some of these rides....shear terror!!! but she insisted on riding if Bethany rode.

Every ones favorite part was the Shamu show! It was fabulous!!!! The kids were disappointed that Shamu the whale did not splash us but I was a little relieved!!

Today was the last day of our trip! I will be sporting a red neck (sunburn) back to Alabama but somehow that sounds appropriate:) Just Kidding!!!!

A Morning at the Pool

Anna Li wasn't too happy about the floaties but... she really scares us in the water. She is convinced she knows how to swim but she doesn't! She jumps right into the deep end then grabs onto the closest person she can find... the pulls them down with her. Swimming lessons will definitely be in her near future:) She had so much fun after she got over the floaties:)

This is the pool at our resort!! Nice:)