Our Adoption Story

Welcome to our adoption story, which officially begins when we jet off to the Ukraine to meet our daughter, Elizabeth Marie, on Oct. 15th 2005. We hope to keep our family and friends up to date with our daily activities through this blog (stands for web log). We are very blessed to have wonderful support systems...our loving family, friends, and our church family. We want to thank everyone for their prayers and concerns since we began this process in August, 2004 and as we continue our journey.

Saturday, February 18, 2006

And the weeks continue to fly by....

A few more pictures of my students (well, I feel like they are my daughters :-) On the 8th we had a Teddy Bear Clinical for Hannibal pre-K children and here are several of the students interacting with the children. It helps to prepare children for doctor visits and to be less afraid. Pictured are Khrista, Emily, Danyell, and Kathy

Riding her pony her Aunt Linda got for her

O.K. so..........this doesn't have anything to do with my daughter, but it is a picture of my students and I wanted to share . On Monday we went to St. Louis Community College to work with their Nursing Division using their mannequin to assimilate real life situations. It was an awesome experience and I was very, very proud of my students and their partication in the activity. Pictured are Laura, Khrista, Teresa, Marissa, and Janet. The lady in red is SLCC instructor Pat and of course the patient is the manniquin :-)

Elizabeth with the kitty my sister got her. Elizabeth has Impetigo (a bacterial infection) under her nose (not serious, but contagious), so she wasn't able to Day Care on Tuesday. She went to "work" with Mommy. I said "work" because mommy really wasn't able to get much done :-) We came home around 1:30 so she could nap and then, since it was a BEAUTIFUL day, we played outside, we rode the 4-wheeler, I pulled her in the wagon, we swang and went down the slide, and we even played in the dirt in the garden....hard to believe it was that warm only a few days ago when the temperature this morning said -1 degree!

"Sit Kitty" She in talking more and more now and says things to her animals like: sit, no-no, stay, and of course she loves to hug and kiss them :-) Here she is sitting the kitty in a bowl.

Making her Dora Valentine cards for her new friends at Day Care :-)

Not the best picture of Elizabeth...but the best picture of her decked out in her Valentines Day outfit :-)

Silly girls...I was taking a picture of ourselves as she grabed my hair, LOL!

Waiting by the door, ready to go on Valentine's Day...with the Kitty Cat from Aunt Holly...she LOVES her new stuffed kitties from Aunt Holly, Aunt Karen, and Meredith...she now has a collection of 4 :-)

I actually took this picture in the dark, but with the flash, you can't tell. She liked to turn the lights off and have the four ducks flashing their lights...it was really cool!

We got these four ducks at the Cancer Center gift shop (of all places) for Valentines Day and they light up to touch or to water. The picture doesn't show it very well, but they were very awesome and it made her love bath time even more than ever!

Even with her sore nose, she is beautiful :-)

Sunday, February 05, 2006

Another busy week!!

Danielle and Elizabeth looking at the lambs

I wasn't sure if I was going to find time to post this week...it is 10:30 on Sunday night! Why is it the weekends go by so fast??? We had a busy week. We spent some time at the hospital since Tom's Aunt Lucille had to have surgery... Elizabeth had her weekly visit to GrandMary and Papa's while I went to class at Mizzou...Saturday it was great to stay home for an entire day...today we went to church, Hardee's and then to GrandMary and Papa's to watch a slide show... and tomorrow....it's Monday again. Elizabeth will be starting at her new day care "The Carpenter's Kids" tomorrow.