Brothers!

Joshua and Moses have an incredible bond. They truly love each other and Moses idolises Joshua. These two boys stick together! 

When we got our referral, Joshua was 9 years old and when he heard that one of his siblings was going to be a little brother, he ran around the house shouting "I'm going to be his hero, I'm going to be his hero" It was sooo funny.

 As it turns out, he was right :)

(P.S How Moses lost his front tooth is another post for another day:)  )

For our special friend M.

We miss you M. Thank you for phoning and for sending us pictures. Thank you for being such a great friend. We miss laughing with you and dancing to cool music.

We love the Cars bed, it looks sooo good in our room. When you come and visit, we can show you!

Love from A & M

xoxoxoxoxoxoxo

An Historic Day!

What an incredible day. I felt privileged to watch as an African American man was sworn in as President of the United States of America. Incredible.

I think he is a brilliant orator and a very dignified and composed man. Very exciting to watch.

Of course, as Moses turned off the TV at the precise moment when he went forward to take his oath, I had to watch that on the computer later, but it was still very exciting.

Only time will tell about how his administration handles the pressures and challenges of leadership, but for now, I am just enjoying the pomp and ceremony of it all.

Congratulations Mr. President!!

Moses quotes.

Moses makes me laugh.

 Two things that he recently said to me. He is either BRILLIANT (only  just turned three), watches too much T.V with his older brother :) or is just plain f.u.n.n.y. 

As a very good parent, it has to be either the first or the third option above. AND look how adorably cute he is too!

1)The other day as we were driving along, he said,

"You and me mama, ...together we will save the day"

2) We were going into a store and he looked up, patted his pocket and said,

"Don't worry, I've got this covered"

After I had stopped laughing I asked him what he could buy with no money.

"It's pretend money for pretend toys" with the teenage eye roll to complete the picture.

He makes me laugh every single day.

"Three Cheers For my mum. Hip Hip...."

Here is my mum (with Erin and Megan) visiting us from UK last September. She is healthy and vibrant and full of energy.

She returned back to UK with promises to soon return...we always miss her so much when she leaves. When she got back home, she called and said she had a good flight, she was settled in etc.

Imagine my horror when she phoned only three days later to say that she had been out walking her dog and they had been attacked by a boxer dog. It knocked my mum to the ground, bit her all over her arms and legs and also viciously attacked her little Schnauzer dog.

After being in the hospital to get checked out and tetanus shots etc, she seemed OK, although her back was really sore.

To cut a l.o.o.o.n.g. story short, (lots of tests, lots of bloodwork, lots of x-rays, an MRI scan, fainting episodes ) three weeks later she was still in agony and they discovered that she had actually broken her back!! (OK, don't even get me started on incompetent dr's.  How does it take three weeks to find a broken back...????)

When she was knocked down by that s.t.u.p.i.d. dog, she broke her back! 

Here we are in January, four months later and she is doing really well, she is up and mobile. She is still in pain with her back, but there is really nothing they can do about that now. She goes to a chiropractor/physio, she has regular checkups etc, but her back will always be a bit stiff and sore.

Oh, and the dog? The one that attacked my mum and her dog? Well, after she heard that the owners were still letting it run around without a leash (even though legally they had to muzzle it after it had attacked), she actually got the police involved and charged the guy.  I'm still waiting to hear what comes of that.

So, she's alright,  she's doing very well. 

In fact, she has just been on the phone and telling me about a conference she will be speaking at in China in April and making plans to come out and visit us before we leave for Africa. She is a strong and brave woman. 

"Three cheers for my mum! Hooray...."

I'm making a New Year Resolution...

I will write in this blog regularly and put in lots of pictures.

I often make New Year resolutions.

Sometimes I keep them.

Most times I don't.

I'll try and keep this one.....promise :)

Maybe I'll even do a trendy little email notification when I have updates...

Lesley