Our family is also trying to do more for the needy in our community. Prior to adopting Josiah, we would often go to the local community center to help make lunches for the hungry of our city. We haven't gone very much in the past months and it was great to have the chance to go again this morning. They didn't need our help for making lunches today, so we were assigned the task of sorting out donated warm clothing that people would be able to take to keep warm this winter. An about 8 year old boy came up while we were sorting out the coats and told us that he was in the rain this morning without a coat and he was so excited to see all the warm clothing. Things like that really put things in perspective. There are so many people right in our midst that just need a few minutes of our time to show them God's love.
Josiah's surgery was a little over two weeks ago. His surgery went really well. It lasted over 3 hours but he was still able to go home that same day. The recovery for this surgery has overall been a lot easier than the palate repair. He didn't have to be on a special diet and didn't have to wear the arm restraints. The main tough thing has been cleaning the stitches multiple times a day, which must hurt a lot, cause Josiah screams like we are torturing him every time we do it. His nose isn't healing as fast as the lip, and I'm a little worried about some open wounds inside his nose. His lip was really swollen the first couple days, poor guy, it just looked so painful! Now the swelling is pretty much down and his lip is looking a lot better. Should be interesting to see how the scars heal up.
Not much going on with our adoption paperwork.... our homestudy is still not finalized.... Our social worker went on a much deserved vacation for two weeks, but came back and went to work on writing up our home study. Now it is waiting in the inbox of the person at our agency who reviews the homestudy. She is supposed to be coming back to work tomorrow after a couple weeks in China. So hopefully it will be reviewed quickly and then we can go onto the next step of our preliminary application with US immigration. Our hopes of having all our paperwork sent to China by the end of the year are diminishing, but it could still happen.
I'll leave you with a couple pictures from the past few weeks.
The kids hard at work carving and painting their pumpkins.
Josiah enjoyed painting his pumpkin too, despite only being a couple days after his surgery.
All dressed up and ready to fill up their buckets with LOTS of candy.
Josiah's first time trick-or-treating. After about two houses, he got the idea of what was going on and really got into running from house to house to get candy! He got to the point of not wanting me to go to the door with him, and wouldn't even let me hold his hand going up and down steps, which made me a little nervous because I didn't want him to fall on his newly healing lip!
Hannah and Joel started horseback riding this week. It is through this really cool non-profit organization that gives kids the chance to learn all about horses and best of all, it is FREE!
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