Now that we are in a "normal" routine
I haven't been blogging for quite a while. I guess it's because I was mostly writing about the adoption. The other things I wrote about seemed to be not as read, so I quit writing. From time to time I have ideas for a blog but it's not that interesting to me. I have focused more of my creative juices on my sermons the past few months. Also, we are busier.
Silas is fitting in as if he has always been a member of our family. He has made life much fuller for his new brother and sisters as well as our community. Of course Mindy's and my life has changed once again. We have not had any major issues in terms of our family dynamics. Eden went through a short adjustment period as she was no longer the "baby" of the family. (Kind of boring huh?)
Silas has a funny personality. Lately he says "bye" very loudly to everyone that he sees...repeatedly. I have left from the house many times with him still smiling and shouting bye at me. It was hard to leave the first time, but it's easy now! He laughs a lot. He laughs a lot at the dinner table. He is both in love with and deathly afraid of his brother Will. He runs and jumps on the purple chair whenever we start up the vacuum cleaner...and yes...we start it up occasionally to see him run :) Out of the entire population Silas likes older men more than any other group. It's funny to see him choose to be picked up by a grizzly old man instead of a beautiful young lady. (I'm sure that will change!)
He doesn't talk around people too much, however, he will not stop talking when he is sitting directly behind me in the van. He loves to eat. He will follow anyone around that is eating or drinking anything. He drools all the time. He laughs the entire time you change his diaper. He loves putting on other people's shoes. I think he like Eden's the most. He is a dancer. If there is the slightest hint of music somewhere his arm gets going and he tilts his head. He is gangster when it comes to cutting the rug.
Tomorrow we are going to St. Louis so he can have a catscan done on his cranium. We have been told that we will then know if he will need major surgery for future brain growth or if his crooked head causes no problems other than cosmetically. They will put him out as they scan him. We would appreciate your prayers on that issue.
Early in September we will go to court to complete the stateside portion of our adoption of Silas Soldner Boyd. Awesome.
It's hard to believe that exactly one year ago today we were in Uganda for the first of three trips to bring him home and be his forever family. God sure did a lot of work in that time didn't He? There were so many times that we felt completely helpless. But a year later, it doesn't seem like it was all that much work to get Silas home. And here he is - home.
Overall everything is going very, very well.
Silas is fitting in as if he has always been a member of our family. He has made life much fuller for his new brother and sisters as well as our community. Of course Mindy's and my life has changed once again. We have not had any major issues in terms of our family dynamics. Eden went through a short adjustment period as she was no longer the "baby" of the family. (Kind of boring huh?)
Silas has a funny personality. Lately he says "bye" very loudly to everyone that he sees...repeatedly. I have left from the house many times with him still smiling and shouting bye at me. It was hard to leave the first time, but it's easy now! He laughs a lot. He laughs a lot at the dinner table. He is both in love with and deathly afraid of his brother Will. He runs and jumps on the purple chair whenever we start up the vacuum cleaner...and yes...we start it up occasionally to see him run :) Out of the entire population Silas likes older men more than any other group. It's funny to see him choose to be picked up by a grizzly old man instead of a beautiful young lady. (I'm sure that will change!)
He doesn't talk around people too much, however, he will not stop talking when he is sitting directly behind me in the van. He loves to eat. He will follow anyone around that is eating or drinking anything. He drools all the time. He laughs the entire time you change his diaper. He loves putting on other people's shoes. I think he like Eden's the most. He is a dancer. If there is the slightest hint of music somewhere his arm gets going and he tilts his head. He is gangster when it comes to cutting the rug.
Tomorrow we are going to St. Louis so he can have a catscan done on his cranium. We have been told that we will then know if he will need major surgery for future brain growth or if his crooked head causes no problems other than cosmetically. They will put him out as they scan him. We would appreciate your prayers on that issue.
Early in September we will go to court to complete the stateside portion of our adoption of Silas Soldner Boyd. Awesome.
It's hard to believe that exactly one year ago today we were in Uganda for the first of three trips to bring him home and be his forever family. God sure did a lot of work in that time didn't He? There were so many times that we felt completely helpless. But a year later, it doesn't seem like it was all that much work to get Silas home. And here he is - home.
Overall everything is going very, very well.
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