Blessed

This week Emily is well into her routine. She moves and twists every two or three hours. I love watching her moving from one spot to the other. It was funny that one morning David was playing piano while I watched my belly button fluctuating like a fishing bob, suddenly a hill was built up and blocked my view of the belly button. The hill was so prominent that I was sure it was either her bottom or head. David joked, "she was sitting up to listen to the music!"

We bought more things for Emily: 159 classic video tapes collection for kids. Each tape costs less than 70 cents! Neither David nor I watched those movies when we were little. But we heard about all the titles. David said, "Can you imagine all three of us sitting in the couch watching these Disney movies?!"

I'm so grateful that I'm feeling great so far except the swelling feet and legs in the end of the day. I had to alternate between standing and sitting frequently. But that's really not a big deal. I'm also thankful for our friends who sent their early baby gifts. It was such a pleasant surprise to see the packages waiting at the door! And the very first package was from our Friendspeak readers!

Tom came over for dinner Tuesday night. His mom was in the hospital. He just had a long day. So David invited him to our house. Besides Tom, we saw another guest who was not invited: it was a big gray cat of our neighbors. See what he was doing:












Andrew and Jamie came over for dinner Thursday night. They are missionary couple in China. Starting next month, they will begin to work with Gary and Danita. We really enjoyed the evening with them. By the way, David and I made the fried Okra. It was delicious! Andrew especially liked it. Jamie were more interested in the baby books about teaching babies languages. Below is a picture of us. David, George, Andrew and Jamie are going to meet with LST on Friday talking about the future plans. Gary sent out a link to some pictures of the adopted children at the Paralympics: http://picasaweb.google.com/jacksongardan/ParalympicWeekend908#











This week's the Bible verses are from Phillipians. David was trying to learn how to pray from Paul by studying his prayers for others. "And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ—to the glory and praise of God."