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From yesterday... Fun moments at a children's museum: - Adrianna and Scott diving into the bubbles - Abel enjoying the magnets - Getting to make a craft with Adrianna (which she wanted to make for Abel)  - Abel giggling on the see-saw - Realizing that the last time we came, Adrianna could walk through the tunnel that she now has to crawl through - Finding Abel looking so handsome and grown-up - Adrianna exclaiming: "I love worms!" - Adrianna asking Scott to take off her training wheels, and then conquering our street with her bike - Adrianna making bead crafts for our new neighbor girls - Finding some new delicious recipes for Adrianna to enjoy  ... Like quinoa poppy seed crackers: Yum! Wish I could do today's, but there seems to be an uploading problem with the blog... Will try to be back tomorrow!

 From yesterday... - An answered prayer: My father-in-law providing the means to visit my mom, my sister, and her kids for a few hours; he just happened to need to travel up to a spot that was almost equidistant for both my sister and me to drive and meet up with each other - Abel naming all the family members in his photo album that we sent to Ethiopia before we met him - Adrianna making name cards for her cousins she was about to see again - A perfect resting stop at the John Deere tractor store - Grandpa finding a couple of goodies for the kids - Getting to meet my newest nephew - Abel going "fishing" with a stick - Adrianna playing some sort of Little House game while her cousin T made a tepee - Cousins together again  - The property we visited having so many wonderful wagons for the kids to play on - Capturing a moment that looked so familiar - Sharing Adrianna's gluten-free, dairy-free coconut donuts with the family - Finding two brothers l...

From yesterday... - Celebrating one year with Abel (See one year ago  for more.) - Celebrating one year of Abel's growth and development with us - Abel climbing to the top of the jungle gym in the blink of an eye  - Abel learning to ride the tricycle in the backyard  - Adrianna setting up "centers" in her room for me to do with her: game, craft, reading, water, etc. ...And numbering each one with a sticker - Scott taking Abel aside for some attention when Abel felt left out - Adrianna recalling to me the red fox facts she heard from her magazine And from today... - Adrianna and Abel making cup music this morning - Abel watching Adrianna get on her cowgirl boots for the western theme at VBS, and running to his room, pointing to his shelf and saying, "Abel's boots?!  Abel's boots?!" - Week two of VBS at our church - Having enough supplies for all the kids at VBS, even when extra kids attended - Watching one of the teachers use a Grover p...