highlights from our first week

so the boys have been here a week, here's some highlights...

Richard's got the look...this look that says, you know i'm cute, so you know I'm going to try and get away with everything, in fact, i might be getting away with something right now and you don't even know, you are SOOO outmatched parental units...he tilts his head down and looks up with a sly smile, oh boy...

Dominick loves everything, Mandy already wrote about this on our adoption blog, but he loves everything, including:
- Richard's shoes on
- Bubbles
- Daddy getting a drink
- the dog outside

Diapers are AWESOME! whenever we change them, finding that it was only number one is like finding a dollar on the ground outside...yes...and if we find it is number two, well that dollar was attached to a string and some big bully is at the other end ready to throw a pile of number two in your face...yeah, that's about right...

skype is saving my sadness from my family not being here to meet the boys, of course, now Dominick thinks everyone on skype is Grammie, but, I guess that's ok...

bedtime is rough and beautiful at the same time, last night i got to rub Dom's head, and whisper about how much I love him and how Jesus loves him and how happy I was that Jesus brought us together...and he just looked at my eyes and drank his cup as he slowly began to fall asleep...

i love these boys. i have to be honest, this whole adoption process has brought a new dimension to my understanding of my adoption through Christ. I think I've written about this before...at any rate, to realize and believe that I have been adopted, that I have been chosen (no matter how Calvinist that sounds) has brought such a deeper love and affection from and for my God. Thank you Jesus...