Falling Behind

We've had a busy couple of days, and I'm falling behind with pictures. 

Thursday, the boys and I picked Elizabeth up from school and headed out for a drive.  My dad had a business trip up in Northern Va, so we went up to meet him for dinner.  We threw paper airplanes in his hotel room for about an hour, then headed to Chick-fil-A.  We didn't have a whole lot of time as Elizabeth had to get up for school the next morning, but we enjoyed the time we had.  Of course, I forgot my camera, so I didn't get any pictures.  :-(

Friday, Elizabeth came home very excited about having participated in Jump Rope and Hoops for Hearts at school.  With all of the snow days in the beginning of the month, they missed the original day.  She came home with a big Hot Wheels temp. tattoo in the middle of her forehead.  It stayed there until Sunday night.

Sweet pics of my oldest and youngest

Josiah playing

Saturday, we again headed up to Northern VA...this time Daddy came along, too :-)  We had lunch with Ms. Kristen, then spent the evening with the Barnes family.  We had a great day spending time with friends.  I didn't get many good pictures, though.

(I think Josiah took this one)

Goldfish

Would you like some Goldfish?

Elizabeth would!  This picture makes me think of one of Paula's songs.  "Little fishy in the sea, unsuspecting as can be.  Then along comes little me.  Nom nom nom nom nom" :-)

I've got two teeth in!  Food looks so yummy!  When do I get to have Goldfish?

The Eyes Have It

I tried to experiment some with getting eye shots today.  My camera isn't much more than point and shoot...even though David has tried to buy me better cameras several times.  So they didn't turn out the best, but a few are still kind of neat.  Do you know who's eyes these are?

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1. David, 2. Isaac, 3. Demarie, 4. Elizabeth, 5. Josiah, 6. Elizabeth, 7. Isaac, 8. Josiah

Yeah, we've been watching the Elympics*

Josiah and Elizabeth skiing

Isaac exhausted from trying to watch Olympics and Maryland Basketball with Daddy...at the same time.

* So, Elizabeth has this thing lately where she starts a lot of words with a long E sound instead of the correct vowel sound....Elympics, Edult (adult), Edoption (adoption).  We keep telling her that just because her name begins with an E, doesn't mean she can make every other word begin the same way. ;-)

Happy Valentine's Day

Sometimes we are happy.  Sometimes mad.  Sometimes tired.

Sometimes the message gets a little turned around.

But we hope you always know...

and we are so thankful for you!

Blessings, from the Babers

Saturday

Today we were blessed with the chance to meet some other transracial adoptive families.  Several were even involved with Ethiopian adoptions.  We drove about an hour to hang out and let the kids play.  We don't mind driving, and will definitely try to join the group again.  But we do hope to meet some other families in our town, as well.

Isaac was a charmer today.  He did a great job just hanging out and smiling.  He's becoming a lot more vocal, and just chatters on...especially when his siblings aren't around (I can't blame him.  It's hard to get a word in when they are near ;-))  When he was in the play area, he yelled out at the kids to come pay attention to him.  He has had a rough couple of evenings lately as his teeth have been coming in.  He's been using the pacifier a bit more than I would prefer, but it's better than some of the other things he could be gnawing on. ;-)

Josiah has been doing a lot of cheesing lately.  Heehee.  I'm trying to be better about taking candid shots instead of always posed pics.  When we told Josiah that one of the girls was from Ethiopia like him.  He seemed surprised.  Everytime we mention Ethiopia, he says, "Like Me!"  I am excited that he is starting to grasp more about his background.

Elizabeth is quite the poser for pictures.  She's missed having school the past couple of weeks, and is excited to go back.  She is waiting to lose her top middle two teeth, and is constantly wiggling them.

My Sleeping Babies

Wednesday - another lazy day

Watching some morning cartoons

Giving Diego some love

Making faces

By the way, I'm going to say that Isaac officially had his first tooth break through.  I think it was Monday.  I've been feeling his rubbing his gums to try to help them feel better.  It's hard to get a visual, because he just won't hold still long enough :-)  The second tooth on the bottom seems to have a corner poking through, but not the whole tooth yet. 

Tuesday- still home

It was a Wii playing...

Pajama wearing...

Baby swinging...

Trio block building...

kind of day.

Funny Faces