6 Months home with Noelle...plus Noelle's Adoption Video

We can't believe Noelle has been home with us for 6 months already! Where does the time go?

Stephanie just came out to the house to do our 6 month post placement visit which went great! That will be off to AWAA this week.

Noelle is learning so much....she can now help count to 5 and copies everything we say : )

She loves to watch Barna (Barney) and Ni Hao Kai-lan. Her favorite thing to do is eat snacks and read every book she owns with her Dada. Of course she loves her older sissy and loves it when she plays with her. In the evening she loves to cuddle with Mama and have a warm bottle of soy milk : )

I know we've said it before, but we feel soooo blessed that the Lord chose us to be her parents!

We love you Noelle!

Noelle ~ Gotcha day Jan. 21, 2008

Noelle ~ July 2008

Noelle's Journey Home.....It's kinda long...38 mins.

Pictures of my girls

After six months we finally found a flag for Noelle to stand beside to take her picture.

Robin & Noelle

A visit from the Steiger Clan

We had a busy but fun weekend! We held the adoption meeting here at our house and I invited the Steiger family to come up and share about their recent adoption of Jordan from Ethiopia. I was so blessed that they came and shared. It was wonderful to see them again. We met the first time last Nov in Mass. at a SCC concert. We both had just received our referrals for our girls so it was neat to see each other now that we have them home! Jordan is a doll!

What a smile : )

We also met Alice another AWAA family who adopted this beautiful little girl. This is just an amazing story of God's goodness. Selam is best friends with Patty and Jason's daughter who will be coming home Lord willing later this year. Who would imagine that two best friends who live in Ethiopia would both be adopted into Christian families who live about an hour away from each other....in Maine?! God is so good!

It was a wonderful day even with the rain! Everyone seemed to have a good time and right after lunch it stopped raining so the kids could play outside while we had our meeting. I was so happy that the other AWAA families came too! It was so nice to see Mike and Kristy and Alice! Thanks for coming!

Thank you Fil and Lenka for coming it was so fun to visit with you and see all your precious children!

I'll post some more pictures when I get them from Lenka.