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Tuesday, May 29, 2018

Home 10 Months



The update this month includes some fun activities.  The sun has started to shine and it has heated up.  So there is more outside activity, which Judah loves!

He is making great headway in potty training.  His vocabulary has grown.  He still gets really frustrated when we don't understand what he wants.  He is able to say the names of all is siblings now.  He had short versions of their names, but now he says "Evan" instead of "Ehhh".  And "Becca" instead of "Behbeh".   He's more frequently putting two words together.

Backyard play is the best!:



Age old practice of peeing outside


 

He has started to use a fork well this month:


Sometimes ya just gotta shove it in

Sometimes, Judah sleeps with his eyes cracked open, ewwww!

THIS BOY LOVES HIS PIZZA!!!




First Corn on the Cob!   Nailed it and proud!

 

 Learning Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes...

 

Plays until he crashes





Fun play at our church playland.





Bringing the Red, White and Blue for Memorial Day
 




Books and reading have continued to become something Judah enjoys!




He turned THREE this month!!!!


 
 


ALSO got to celebrate that one year ago this month, we received Judah's referral-

I have a few glimpses of our reactions as I got the phone call and then shared the info with the family...  Sadly, the littles were out of frame when I made a video.... so no pictures of them.


I took that pictures of myself right as I hung up the phone and looked at the referral info they sent. I saw Judah's picture.   My tears were a mix of surprise, excitement and joy.
 I drove directly over to where Drew was working to surprise him with the news. That was SO FUN!  *Now remember, he was growing his beard out for our Beard Be Gone Fundraiser to finish raising funds for the adoption. 










Monday, May 28, 2018

3rd Birthday!






Judah has been smitten with balloons since the day Drew and Anna met him in China.  His love of balloons has remained one of his favorite things.  So, we celebrated his first birthday home with us in Balloon Fashion!   A baker's dozen of helium balloons throughout the house as well as blown up balloons all over and of course balloons on his cake.  Red has seemed to be his favorite color so we did a lot in red.  Grandma Sugar made his shirt with balloons on them.  He is learning to hold three fingers up to represent how old he is and says "free" sort-of :)


There was no holding him back when the cake was coming and we were singing to him.  He was excited and I think felt very loved.









We celebrated and loved on Judah and had a great 3rd Birthday!