My baby lost his first tooth-at a church dinner(5-23-09) and he swallowed it.

goofy kids

Levi watching Caleb and Alex's ball game

Alex pitching- he did a pretty good job!

My neice Emma's 7th Birthday party. Poor Thing- the next day she had her tonsils and adnoids out. Then on Saturday she had to go back to the hospital because she was dehydrated and vomitting. She is starting to do better now.

Levi in a bag

Cody with wrapping paper

Our cat Fluffy-she thinks she is a dog. She goes for walks with us and isn't afraid of our dogs. She just had kittens if anyone wants one.
Alex is learning to mow, he has done a pretty good job so far. He even stopped the mower instead of running over the dog poop

Matthew wanted to help with the yard work- the spreader is empty but he thinks he was helping.

Alex scored 92% on his science test, before he had been getting 20-30 % on them. Science has

to be one of the hardest classes because of all the new vocabulary-especially for someone who is learning english.

Matthew in the tub with his new puppy toy. Grandma Lynne gave him the dog for his Pre-School Graduation.

WE HAVE A DR IN THE FAMILY!!!

My sister Holly graduated this weekend as a Doctor of Physical Therapy. We are very proud of her.

Holly and my grandmothers

Matthew's preschool graduation
Matthew and Murphy (a good friend's daughter)

Jeff's brother was married in April, Here is the new family.

Easter!

Baby Cody and Baby Levi watching the big kids look for Easter Eggs outside.

Alex was baptised at the Easter Vigil, Jeff joined the church, they both made their first communion, and Jeff was confirmed.

Ben asleep at church

Alex and his Godparents, my sister Angie and her husband Scott.

I forgot to mention this in my last post but I want to thank everyone who has given the boys clothes, bikes etc. Alex's foot has grown from a size 4.5 to a 7 since we came home six months ago. So we really appreciate all of the hand-me-downs we have gotten. He is outgrowing his size ten clothes quickly-especially jeans and pants. So if anyone has any 12's laying around we would really appreciate it. We could really use a couple of baseball gloves also so we can play catch with the boys. I hate to go out and buy new ones for just playing catch. Thank you!

A BUSY COUPLE OF WEEKS!
It has been over 6 months since we came home from Ukraine! It seems like we were just there.

Matthew only has two days of preschool left and Alex will be done next week. Alex started hunter safety class last night, baseball tonight and both boys are taking two weeks of swimming lessons starting Monday.

My sister Holly is graduating as a Doctor of Physical Therapy on Saturday, Congratulations!

I have been procrastinating about posting because I wasn't sure how to say this. In the beginning of April Jack moved to Virginia to live with another family. It became clear to us that Jack and Alex should not live together, they both have many "past hurts" from their lives in Ukraine that need to heal. They can not heal when they are together. I know most of you won't understand this, but our social worker and other families who have adopted older siblings will. Jack hated living in the country and his new home is in the city. He is doing well, he calls us frequently and seems to like his new home and school. Since he left I have noticed a lot of positive things happening for both Alex and Matthew. Jack picked on them and impeded bonding, etc. We are starting to feel like a family now. There are many other reasons but I don't feel comfortable posting them on our blog for everyone to see.

Easter Egg decorating, Alex's first time to do this. He did a pretty good job and he loved to eat the eggs-so does Matthew.

Caleb slimed his baby brother!
Levi wasn't too sure about the slime.

Katie's 10th birthday-one week after Alex's!

Another picture of Teddy, Matthew put Teddy here while he took his bath. I like how he propped Teddy on a package of wipes.

Alex's Birthday party

Alex's 11th Birthday!!!!!

I couldn't get the picture with Jack in it to rotate so I didn't post it.

Baby Cody wasn't freaked out by the bunny.

Alex, Matthew and Cody with the Easter Bunny-Emma refused to be in the picture.

She says "the Easter Bunny FREAKS me out!"

Alex won an easter basket at the hunt too-they drew names for each age group.

Alex and his eggs, He really found a lot. The egg hunt is for 0-10 year olds and Alex turned

11 the day after the hunt.

Mattthew and his easter eggs at the prairie estates nursing home egg hunt.

One of my Dad's cow's had a calf but couldn't produce enough milk to feed it. So we have been helping out by bottle feeding it. We enjoy watching how fast a calf grows, his name is Socks because he looks like he is wearing white socks on his feet.