Sunday, September 19, 2010

A Blur...

A friend aptly said this morning, "Your week sounds like it was a blur." Yes, I'll agree. :) A good blur though... Tony was able to make up "date with dad" day with our Kindergarten son on Thursday morning. His class was scheduled for Wednesday but Tony could not make it having been in Texas for Leadership Network. I took my two from the Primary to school late so Eyasu wouldn't know what he was missing. I figured the unexcused tardy was worth it. Meanwhile, we'd arranged with his teacher to make it up on Thursday... what a blessing!
Eyasu gave his papa a card and a picture he'd made... precious....

Some gracious friends and musicians have been helping put together a recording project of original music of mine. The CD project is called "Defend the Orphan" and I'm really hoping it will be available by Christmas (working and praying :-). It will be a fundraiser project for our Abba Father Ministry that helps relieve the financial burdens for families who are adopting. Stay tuned for more details... Here are a few glimpses of our time in the studio...
Of course, all of my kids will appear on the album... My Ukrainian four all read some (well, actually repeated since they aren't fluent English yet - ha) of Romans 8 for the song, "Not Our Home"... Joshua wasn't interested in reading. He just wanted to sing. You can see his video on my Twitter and Facebook pages - ha...

Friday evening we had good friends from New Orleans come up (as well as one down from Boston) to grill out with us. It was a treat! The kids had a blast staying up past their bedtime and playing hide-n-seek outside in the dark - ha ha.


Saturday morning it was time for some football. Eyasu had to call his cousins and speak a little Amharic with them.
My girlie girls loaded up their dolls, coloring books and umbrellas to survive the heat and game... hilarious...
These are two peas in a pod... they are the entertainers of the family - ha...
James played a good game. When it was over he, my precious son, said, "Papa, we won our football game! We had three home runs!" It was hilarious. He's learning.. :)
We're taking advantage of what warm weather remains... plus, the swimming pool has provided some good one on one time with our children (something that is increasingly a challenge with 5 kids)...
Joshua has been swimming now 4 or 5 times since being home. His fear of the water has quickly subsided as he wants to just dive in along with his siblings. However, he has not quite grasped how to keep his head above water, sinking like dead weight. This makes me a little nervous to get out of arms reach from him. He, of course, wants to break away and "see if he can do it"... no fear... Well, that's how James was when we first went to the pool. He just jumped in the deep end without a clue how to swim. I had to jump in with my clothes on last summer to get him. James and his sisters are like fish now and I trust Joshua will be the same eventually...

Hope you all had a nice weekend!

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