Our 1st pool day

We got the pool up. What an endeavor!! It isn't quite done but it is done enough to swim in today! We are so blessed that someone offered to give it to us. The kids had a great time this morning AND my house is quite clean since I gave them all jobs to do before we could go outside to swim in it!

Here are the 3 that came out first. They realized it was "a Wii day". I recently made the rule that you can only play the Wii on the weekends. I know, I'm a mean mom, but it has solved the problem of them CONSTANTLY asking to play it.

Yes, there is Joshua's eye patch, "Argh!" The new has definitely worn off. He doesn't care that he looks like a pirate anymore. He has one eye that is considerably worse than the other. The eye Dr. has been watching that eye in case it started to shut down/ wander for 3 years. Our last appointment resulted in Josh having to wear the eye patch for 2 hours a day. Doesn't sound too terrible to me but it certainly is to him. Poor baby, always something!

An update on the paper chase to Samuel:
We are STILL waiting on our I-800A approval from immigration. We got caught up in all the employees at USCIS taking their summer vacations so a 45 day wait turned into a 70 day wait. Our case was supposed to be reviewed Friday so maybe next week we'll get our approval and can be closer to having our documents to China. Then we can start waiting on our LOA!!

We knew we were going to be about $6500 short for this adoption so we started praying for God's provision. He led us to Both Hands through LifeSong for Orphans. We will get a team of friends and family together and we will all ask people to sponsor us to work on 3 widows' homes. The money raised will all go directly to the costs of Samuel's adoption. The work day is September 17. You can follow along or give a tax deductible gift on this site.

We can't wait to see how the Lord blesses these widows and provides to bring Samuel home!