Beautiful Umbrella's

Steve's cousin Chantele and daughter Victoria stopped by to say HI to the girls. They brought them gifts and I would say one of their favorites are the Umbrella's. The funny thing was they saw these about a week ago a Wal-Mart and wanted them. Steve and I asked them to wait till it was warmer. So they were happy to get them.

Thank you Chantele and Victoria.

Jennifer and kids brought gifts

WOW! Jennifer a friend of ours from town stopped by tonight with her two kids and they brought the girls lots of learning tools. Books,Flash Cards, Wipe off books and the Leap Pad that helps with reading. She knew exactly what we need and was very helpful with answers on how she had already been through teaching English to older kids. Thanks Jennifer for all your help and the wonderful gifts.

The girls are really excited to go back to school tomorrow. Macy was eating popcorn and when Steve said time for bed as we have school tomorrow she jumped up and was happy to go to bed. WOW! I hope she is always like this.
Tonya

Macy's Doctor appointments

I had forgotten to go back in and let everyone know how Macy's doctor's appointments went. She Weighted 47 1/2 (Which is in the 45%) and her height is 45 inches(which is in the 10%).

She got blood drawn and her TB test, she was not happy about these, but she had these laying down and now I wonder if that was most of it. As she got three shots a couple of days later in her arms and never even had one tear she was so brave.

Glad to have shots over for a little while. Macy will need more the middle of March but until then we can take a break from them.

Macy and Mylee got Mail!!!

Macy and Mylee got their first mail today. They received Valentines cards and stickers from Grandma and Grandpa Davis. They had fun opening the cards and then they stuck the stickers on paper, that are now hanging on the fridge. Please see below the new masterpieces on our fridge. Macy's are the 3 together and Mylee's are the two.

Thank you for sending the cards, they really had fun with these.

Kids had fun going to Grandma and Papa Siewert's

We took the kids to Grandma and Grandpa Siewerts yesterday. They got there first valentines presents and they had a good time riding the new 4 wheeler. Did not even seem to mind the cold. They just wanted to keep riding.
Here are some pictures of the fun.

This was there first trip to a grandparents house.

4 kids and really busy

I can not believe that the girls have already been here for a week. Having 4 kids has been really busy but oh how we love them.

Having younger kids in the house has really kept us busy and I told Steve they will help to keep us young!

It still does not seem real, that they are here, even though we waited 18 months for this to happen, we knew we were going to wait a least 12 or 18 more to get them home.

God is good! We are so blessed to be able to have them home with us already.

We had Widelene's doctor appointment today, and I felt really bad as she got 4 shots in her legs, a TB test done on her arm and blood drawn from her arm too. She did not try to get away or kick but she cried really hard.

She weighed 34 1/2 and was 40 inches tall.

Tomorrow we take Widline in for her appointment and go through this all over again.

I talked to our adoption social worker yesterday and let her know our concerns about the girls names. We love them and think they are beautiful but it is so confusing for everyone else.

So she agreed that it would be OK to change their names. She said to introduce their new name with the name now as a middle name and say them together. Then later drop of their name now and just start calling them by the new name. So we started doing this and the girls are already picking up on the new name.

Widline (7) we are calling her Widline Macy so then later she can go by Macy

Widelene(4) we are calling her Widelene Mylee so then later she can go by Mylee.

As you see it has been busy and we have already visited school too.

Here are some pictures of our trip to get the girls and some from here.

Tonya

Home as a family of 6!!!

We flew to Miami on Tuesday and arrived in Miami at 12:20 in the afternoon. We then sat in the office of refugee at the airport till they confirmed that the girls were on the plane. They landed at 6:30pm.
We then went to "His House" the shelter that would be housing the orphans till we could be granted custody of them. We were then told at 8pm that we should go back to our rooms as the kids would need to go through customs and this would take several hours so they would not allow us to see them that night. They said that at 10am the next morning they would allow us to visit with the kids while they processed the paperwork.
Around 10:30 we were taken to Widelene(the youngest), we keep asking when we could see Widline, as she was placed in one house and Widelene in another. As Widelene came there from customs at 10pm and Widline did not get there till 2am.
They would say they would bring her to us but then another hour would pass and no Widline.
Finally after about 3 hours of this I was about to go crazy! I told Steve if they do not have here to us within 30 minutes then I am going to call Holt. Steve seeing that the momma was not happy went looking for her by his self as we were not getting any answers. He found her and before he could get her down the road to me I met them half way. I was so happy to see her.
We did not get released to take them from the shelter till 3:00pm
We stopped quickly at Wal-mart thinking we would take them swimming in the pool, but was to cold. So we went to the group meeting with the other adoptive parents and then went out to eat.
The girls and I slept in bed together last night and we had to get them up at 4:30am to go to the airport to come home. So they were out at 7:30 tonight.
It has been a big day flying and seeing their brothers whom they attached to very quickly.
Life is good and so is God. It still seems like a dream that they are really here, we love them so much.

We are leaving to get the Girls!!!!

I got the call yesterday at work about 1:15, that it was time, the girls we coming to Florida tonight around 9pm. We are flying out this morning at 6:30 from Des Moines. Hope to be back on Wednesday but not sure yet. Yesterday Febuary 1st was Widline's 7th birthday and the last she will have to celebrate with out us.