2nd Saturday

(I took some adequate pictures and the camera disk pooped out on me- sorry)

We had a great time Saturday. I went shopping at Toys r Us Friday night and picked up some toys. My criteria, based on what the boys were attracted to Tuesday at the store whatever it was had to make noise. So 2 hours after wandering around the store I left with 4 pretty good choices.

Saturday we picked up the boys and brought them to our house. Sam was interested in Bowtie at first and petted him and laughed. It was wonderful. Isaiah was more interested in exploring and because Bowtie wasn't interested in entertaining the boys he wandered off and they forgot about him pretty quickly. We showed them the toys and the one I bought was a Tonka race track for little kids. It had 2 soft cars and when you press the button the track goes around, pretty fast, and it makes noises. The boys played with that most of the night. What a hit!

I also bought one leap pad book system and a word whammer by leap frog. They are both educational and will, hopefully, promote language growth, reading and spelling. We found out that the boys are typical in their limits to sharing. Sam got very upset and did not want to share with Isaiah on one of the books and as we were sitting on the floor he had an honest to goodness tantrum. It was exacerbated by the fact that he can't communicate his feelings. One of the things Sam does to compensate is he'll point to things that bother him. For instance he'll "hurt" his finger point to it for a kiss. Then he'll point to his head or arm or whatever for more kisses and attention. When he started his first tantrum for the evening he started crying crocodile tears and pointed to his eye as if to say 'see how upset I am, do you see that you're making me cry'. We rode it out and had he 3 tantrums of varying degrees all evening. Overall things went pretty smoothly.

Isaiah was very sweet to Sam. They wanted to watch Finding Nemo and Isaiah carried the race track into the living room for Sam so we could all watch the movie. It was too sweet and then once later in the evening Sam was upset (not at Isaiah this time) and Isaiah went over and hugged Sam to make him feel better.

Isaiah found a couple of balls in Bowties stuff and started rolling them and throwing them. I had him aim at the front door and he did that for 20 minutes or so and started to even work up a sweat. So they both like very typical boy things. I think I might try to find one of those nerf basketball hoops to hang on the back of the front door.

When it was time to leave all went well. But once we got to Joan's house things were a little chaotic and the boys seemed to not want us to leave. That was hard. It is also hard to believe that we just saw them yesterday. I can't wait to see them again. We meet this week with their case worker and then again with them on Tuesday. We're working every day towards getting ready for them. I'm getting paperwork together to get them enrolled in school, which is a challenge seeing that I don't even know their complete names but we'll get it all squared away.

Please pray for the transition. We think it will be especially hard on Isaiah as he feels pretty comfortable where he is now. We are looking forward to having them here full time so that we can work on the language thing and helping them with just being kids.