It’s hard to
believe it has been 3 months since I have updated our blog but there really are
not that many ways to say the same thing….we still wait. We haven’t received adoption news but we sure
have news on Oberson to share. : )
To give you a
glimpse of God’s goodness….we snuck away for Labor day to the beach for one
last time to relax and to take in the waves before the rush of fall and the
cool of winter set in before us. Our
family doesn’t even take a chair the beach and we don’t put a thing in the sand
as we spend every moment in the water.
Literally. We are snorkeling for
creatures, digging for something, riding in waves or floating to relax. It is just who we are. As we ate lunch one day we were talking about
how our trips might be different in the coming years depending on how Oberson
likes (or doesn’t like) the water. My
phone beeped for an email and I checked it to find our monthly update from our
orphanage. Believe it or not our update
showed they had had pool day at the orphanage and all the kids got to play in
little pools. They wrote how Oberson
loved the water! He enjoyed having water
poured over his head and stayed in the water as long as he was allowed. Isn’t that just like our God to knit our
family together even when we aren’t together!
Circumstances and things certainly beyond our control are keeping us apart
but God is still working to bind us together and help us be ready for each
other. Will it be easy? No!
Will it be perfect? No! But God is showing us that He hasn’t left us
and He won’t leave us! Together we WILL
bring him home…..it will just take longer than we had ever wanted.
Our September
update brought even more exciting news as we found out that he started
preschool! It is bittersweet. I am SO
very excited he is getting the experience, the stimulation, education, interaction
(I could go on and on) but as a mama of course I want him home for school. I want to teach him myself or drive him to
school. I want to put his shoes on and
walk him to into school. But since that
isn’t the plan right now I am forever thankful for an amazing orphanage that
provides these things for our children!
He is learning to walk in a line, go up and down the stairs, sit in a classroom,
learn his colors, play games….oh all the things that preschool teaches! I just wish I could see him in his
classroom. : )
We again are
blessed with pictures to document the event although we often get the Mr.
Serious look. I’m anxious to see his
smiles and hear his belly laugh again!
Another blessing
that cannot go unmentioned would be his physical development. Our orphanage blesses us with his
measurements each month so we can track his height and weight. All four of us get the tape measure out and
giggle and laugh out loud at how big he is!
Oberson at 23 months was measuring a tad over 3 feet tall! Yes! I
picture him in my mind as my almost-two year old baby but a baby he is
not! But what is remarkable and what one
must remember is where he lives. It doesn’t escape us that our son lives in
Haiti. He lives in a third world
country. Children die every day of
starvation and yet he has grown and thrived under the care of loving
caregivers. THIS is what gets me through
the wait.
We will always use
your prayers as this wait is beyond anything I can explain. And I’ll be bold and ask you to pray for the children…all
three of them! Ashley and Travis have
been patient for 2.5 years now and Oberson is preparing for a huge change (even
if he doesn’t know it). But also pray
for his caregivers. They are holding him
when we cannot, teaching him, playing with him and loving on him. We are thankful he has them.
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A few pictures of Ashley & Travis too! : )
Oh that smooth skin that I just want to kiss!
There's that smile right behind that block! :) Love it! Love him!
Thanks for reading friends! We love you all!
