Bible

I brought Lily into bed with me just after 6am to try and rest a little while longer. About 6:20, I thought I heard her leafing through my Bible. I turned over to look at her. She was laying on her stomach with her elbows on the bed and her chin propped up in her hands. She would "read" a little, say "bible," then turn the pages. All this transpired shortly before the "potty" incident mentioned above.

Her sitter also told me Thursday afternoon that she is very reverant and takes praying before meals very seriously!

Visit with Daddy

Trying to sit on the blanket while Daddy was folding it
"Trying on" Daddy's sweatshirt and pants


Almost there!

These are from last weekend. I was home sick yesterday, so I had time to upload some pics

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Adoption Day at Hess's Corn Maze

Bethany, our adoption agency, had an adoption fun day celebrating National Adoption Month last Sunday. It happened to be in Harrisonburg, so Lily napped at "Daddy's House" and then we stopped by for a couple hours. The weather was much nicer than last year. After Deanna, our social worker, tied the balloon to Lily I let her wander a bit as I could readily keep track of her. She played contentedly for quite some time until I saw her heading for the corn field. Now, it was a corn maze, but she didn't enter at the entrance. If you look closely at the picture of the field, you can see her balloon.

If I can get it uploaded, I will try to get some video posted.

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Thank you Cristie

Please read this post regarding orphans. http://martinemadness.blogspot.com/2008/10/reminder-of-gods-mercy.html I love Lily so much. I often take for granted that she hasn't always been a part of our family. Cristie also had a WONDERFUL post regarding the upcoming election that you should read if you have time. I have never met her, but we have a link that is so VERY strong. Our daughters spent 5 months living under the same roof in China! Maliah came home to her family just 7 months before Lily joined our family!

ps I took some wonderful pics this weekend in H-burg. I NEED some sleep or I would post them now!

Fall Festival #1

Take #1 - This one might have been the end of the picture taking, but I was in too close and wanted to try again!
Take #13 - She insisted on having her bear in the picture with her. She has been carrying bear around like a baby the last two days. She's even started asking to be a baby - having me hold, rock, feed, etc. She even has the fake baby cry down pat!

Take #14 - Cheesing it up for the camera

Checking out her stash! This was taken horizontally, but blogger changed it for me and I don't know how to fix it- Sorry!

"Signing up" for a cake auction. She did this all on her own. I think she saw the paper and just wanted to draw!

Our church had its fall festival tonight. I bribed her by telling her that she would see Riley (an older gentleman that gives her "Tootsie Rah Rahs") just to get her costume on her. Unfortunately, we didn't see Riley, but Lily got a handle on the trunk-or-treat very quickly. I had a HARD time getting a good picture of her ahead of time though. Eighteen shots to be exact!

Must read and watch

I usually don't post things like this, but this really bothers me!

Follow the link to read what a fellow mom of a Xuwen baby wrote: http://martinemadness.blogspot.com/2008/10/so-many-red-flags.html

How Hard Is It?

Well, let me see if I can give some perspective. Steve would be best at this, but he is a little busy studying.

Two of his classmates have significant others who are 1. an ER doc, and 2. in medical school. They have both commented on what the anatomy professor is expecting of Steve's class. They both seem to agree that this class is harder than what they had in MED SCHOOL!

One of his profs has been out for a week (wife had a baby). The person filling in for class also commented on a couple of things. One comment being that they will never have to know that (whatever that was) in a clinical setting.

Just because you know a lot DOESN'T make you a good teacher!

Well, I had better go. We were supposed to leave the library to go have dinner 15 minutes ago in order to meet some classmates for a movie at 7 p.m. Oh BTW, I am actually in H-burg with out the Bugsmeister! Lily is staying with G and G Robey. She slept well last night. Hope tonight goes just as well!