Rice bin and new pictures of Bella's buddies`

Bella got some new pictures of her buddies from her first home.. Bella and her Daddy like to look at the pictures of Bella and her two little buddies together. Bella hands her Daddy the picture frame so they can both look at her friends. It really is so cute... We try to keep some pictures out for Bella to look at of her friends...

Thanks Carolee and Peepers~ Bella loved playing in her rice bin today.. So did all of the children. Our grandchildren also liked it. They had rice all over the rug and floors. But it was so much fun for them. We were very happy that Bella liked the rice bin. She was playing with the rice.. Yay Yay Magdalena~ Bella. Bella had rice in her tights and onsies...What fun it was..

Bella having so much fun in her rice bin... She let the kiddos know that this was her rice bin. She doesn't like to share yet.. We keep trying... But we know one day she will share with the children...

Natalia and Elena ~ If Bella could talk she would say that she misses you two very much.... She loves to look at there pictures...

~Magdalena Faith~"Bella"

~Our beautiful little princess~

~Look at those big eyes~

~Bella and her big brother Jake~

She loves to sit on his belly and then put on his sun glasses. Sometimes she wants Jake to put the glasses on her for her. But he tells her she can do it. Then she will put the glasses on her own face. It is really cute to watch them.

Here are some new pictures of ~Magdalena Faith~ "Bella".

Yes , we have made the choice to keep her first name. We think it is beautiful so we will use Bella as her nick name.. A beautiful name for a very beautiful little girl..

~Bella is home two months today~

~Bella at home and loving it~

~Our little Magda~Bella at her old home~

Bella has been home two months now and she has changed so much. She is really getting to be a big girl now. We are so happy to have Bella as part of our family.

We all love to share~ That is what we are doing this week. Mom and Megan went to the doctor yesterday and got meds. Today our older daughter Amber took our grandchildren to the doctor for shots and check ups. Well quess what `Camren and Natalie both have strep throat. They were surprised about that. So Amber called to tell us they have strep , so we called the doctor and got the kids in . Well Bella , Andrew and Dad all have strep throat also. So the only ones not sick~ yet are Mckenzie and Deztany. So we sure hope they don't get sick also.So we are taking it easy or trying to. Things still need to be done , even when we are sick.

We are all tough`we will be better soon.

Happy Anniversary of your Adoption Day Megan

Happy late anniversary of your adoption day Megan.. Megan and Mom were sick and had to go to the doctors yesterday so we never got to have her party. We will have it when we are feeling better.. We both got put on some meds. So we hope we are better soon..

We love you so much Maggie~~ She is mommies little buddy~~

Important people from our trip to get our newest daughter.

These are pictures of very important people to help with the adoptions of special needs childen .
These ladies work very hard to get everything done to get the children matched with a family. Then they get all the paper work done and help with a lot of other paper work to be able to bring our children out of there country , into our country. We are so greatful to these two special ladies for all of there hard work. Our daughter was so worth the trip out of our country to get her. We love her so much and really enjoy teaching her everything we can. Bella is learning pretty fast and we are so happy with all she can do already..

Inportant people from Adoption day ceremony. We are very grateful to all of these people for believing in us to raise Bella. We pray that all will believe in us again to adopt from Bella's birth country `this year we hope. We have the perfect little angel picked out already.

`This is Vlado and his wife Svetlana` we rented our apt: from them while we were in there country. They were so nice to us and showed us how to live in there country. They also took us sight seeing . We are so glad to have these two as friends.. We sure hope to see them again~ We hope this year...We will see. Hello: To all of our friends in Bella's birth country.

Also great news to www.findingourbutterflies.blogspot.com. They got great info: on going back to adopt a second time from Bella and Kristina's birth country. I am so excited for them , i had tears in my eyes. The little boy they are adopting is so cute, i got to see him when we were in country. He sure is a handsome little guy. They will be the first ones to be able to go back to adopt a second time from this country. YAY YAY YAY!!!!!!!!! They will start the path for all of us.. I will be praying for them and for us to be able to travel by the end of this year...

We are also praying that Carolee and Christina and families waiting for there travel dates will hear something very soon. They are expecting to travel in Feb,2009. We can't wait to see these two little ones come home very soon. They are two beautiful little girls, just waiting for there parents to hug and hold them. Also give them some big kisses.

I will be saying lots of prayers for all.

About the Presidents~~

We are learning about the Presidents this week. With today being Martin Luther King Day. Then tomorrow the Inauguration of Barrack Obama. We will be watching the TV all day tomorrow to see what we can learn. Here is what we learned today.

We asked all the children these questions about the Presidents here are some of them.

We went over lots of info: today about the White house and Presidents.

These are Deztany's answers to the questions?

1.What do we call the Presidents wife?

Answer~ Lady Bug

2.Who protects the President?

Answer~ guards

3.Where is the capitol located?

Answer~Washington DC.& Wisconsin

4.Who is our President today?

Answer~ Nixon

5.Who will be President tomorrow?

Answer~ Brocko Bomba

6.What do you think the President will do for our country?

Answer~Save the city

7.What city?

Answer~ Butte

8. What color is the White House?

Answer~ Tan.

Deztany is very serious when she answers these questions she just can never remember anything for very long. That FAS/ is like having holes in her head, it goes in and out very quickly. But Deztany tries very hard to do her school work. She just can't remember much of it.

We have also been trying to teach her money and to tell time. Both are not doing very well sticking with Dez. We so love her dearly, she truly is beautiful.. She just has to try harder than most people.

~Bella started therapy~

Baby Aubrey taking a bath in our sink. She is getting so big so fast. Isn't she just beautiful` we think so .

Bella working with Dixie and daddy watching. Bella did wonderful for her first time with Dixie.

Natalie ` our granddaughter sleigh riding with PaPa and the children.

The kiddos on the hill waiting to go down again. What fun they had .

Lots of news!!!

Bella started occupational therapy with Dixie. We have not seen Dixie in years, she used to come to our home when we had foster babies. We sure did miss her. Dixie had Bella laughing and working her muscles. Bella has really low tone. So we will be working on that a lot. But that was no surprise , we new that.

Bella has been to see her Dr. a few times now. She got 4 shots on Monday and she was not very happy about that. Bella ran a fever for a few days from the shots. But she is feeling better now. Bella is doing good eating from a spoon as long as we are working the spoon.She doesn't want to hold her spoon yet. Today Bella started having sippy cups so we are putting the bottles away, I hope.

Bella got her letter that was from the President of the United States that says she is a US citizen. We framed that for her. Bella also got her US social security card and we went and applied for her passport today. So in 2-4 weeks Bella will have a passport. We will be so happy to see that. Bella is doing so well with our family, we would love to go back and bring one more little girl home . We do know which little girl we would love to bring home.

Our homestudy is good for two special needs children from the same country and so was our I171H APPROVED for two special needs children with down syndrome. So they both are still good. So we would like to be able to go back before the end of this year if we can get approved by the Ministry Officials to do so. We sure would like to be able to commit to this little girl and start working on fundraising ..But we need to wait to see if the M.O will give us the go ahead to do so. So say a few prayers for our family to be able to go back and adopt one more little girl. She is very beautiful and looks alot like our Bella "Faith", they would make great pals. We would love for Bella to have a sister just like her to be able to grow up with.

On another note , we have beeen very busy ths week. Our son and granddaughter are here visiting us this week. So we have had 9 children and 4 adults in the house most of the time. Yes we love it this way. We love when our house is busy and going all the time. The children have a great time playing together and dad/ papa took the children down to the park to sleigh ride. They had a lot of fun with him.