Maybe.......

Katie has the most to share this past week but I have to start out with a story about Coy. Coy likes to eat, there is no secret about that although I will say that his volume has slowed down from the early years. He is still a good eater. He likes to take his time when he eats (he is easily distracted and looks around a lot while eating). That is a good thing, we could learn from him, but we usually end up waiting on him to finish. On Friday night, we went to Cici's and ate pizza. Everyone was finished and Coy was still munching away. I asked him by saying "Coy, do you want us to leave you here while you finish and then come back and get you in a little while??" and his response to me was a sheepish grin, a thoughtful pause and then......."maybe." We all shared a big laugh with that one.

Katie broke her collarbone on Saturday night. We had some friends over and she was out in the yard running in flip-flops and down she went. Softball season is now over and soccer season is more than likely over. The worst part was that we had planned for her to get baptized on Sunday. Even though she was in some pain, she decided that she wanted to go through with it so she got baptized, broken collarbone and all. Caleb and Katie also got the "opportunity" to get slimmed last weekend too. They each only missed one question and so they were only slimmed once.

Earlier in the day on Saturday (last Saturday) we went to Jeffersontown to visit Gayla, who was one of the ladies that helped us while we were in Ukraine. She is a sweet lady and her voice took me back to that apartment and those days that we spent with her. We didn't get to spend a lot of time with her but we did get to show her our other two children and let her see Coy for a bit. Seeing her also reminds me of the other children that are still over there, waiting for parents, or anyone for that matter, to love them.

Meet The Robinsons......Again

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHAkYrNpqIo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPxyokPPztg
OK.....here are the you tube videos. The top one is Katie at soccer in the church league. The bottom one is Caleb at football. I will post one of Coy at his soccer games soon now that I have done it. It takes a while.
Stacey is out of town tonight. She is going to run in the Indy Mini-Marathon tomorrow. We stayed here so that she could "rest-up". To help pass the time, we stopped and bought the movie "Meet the Robinsons". The other kids did not remember that movie but I remembered it very well. We watched it the weekend before we left for Ukraine. Without going into the details....again (you need to watch it if you have not already), Coy watched the whole movie and when it was over, he said that he was the little yellow hair boy. That gave me an opportunity to tell him again that he was adopted by his mom and me and how we are glad that he is in our family. We sometimes talk about "that lady" in Ukraine because Coy was in her belly but that is as far as it has gotten for now. We don't want to hide anything from him but we try to be sensitive to what he can understand. I think the movie moved Katie that most though. She was able to piece some of it together and associate the little boys in the movie with Coy and his situation. It was very touching to see her make that connection.