And We're Off

Well, here we are... The story so far is not the way we would have written it, but we are trusting that God has a beautiful ending in mind for our special little guy.  Our minds and faiths have been spinning for the past week as we had received news of a medical condition that our son is dealing with.  With communication between countries knowing what is going on and trying to get him treatment has proved difficult.  But we are trying to trust.  I read a story last night about Lazarus and his sisters, stating how Jesus could have come when they asked and healed Lazarus, avoiding his death.  But he didn't.  He didn't because He was ready to reveal himself at a new, deeper level to his sister's.  Deeper than they had known him before.  We are struggling with this.  My prayer is that is where God is for our little one.  We covet your prayers and support as we leave on this journey, and will try to post as often as possible while in Addis.  Thank you all for your love through this.

~Aaron and Laura

Respond Ministries Road Race





What a blessing!  Our orphan ministry held its 2nd annual Road Race this weekend and Yedidiya got to be a part of it!  He had a blast running in the kids 100 yard dash.  We weren't sure what would win out, his competative side or his social side.  Silly question... his social side.  You can watch him run with one of his "buddies".

Happy 3rd Birthday Yedidiya!!!

For those of you still out there, a pictorial update of our little guy who is now 3!!

It's been awhile...

We still haven't heard much on our second adoption, and I know it has been too long since I have shown off our lil' pride and joy. They get so big so fast. So for those of you still out there...

Prayers...

This blog has been devoted to the journey we are enjoying with Yedidiya, and in time is to turn into our journey to bring home our daughter, Zahara. While I thought I would be writing more on that journey by now, truth be told, we haven't seen much movement and are now expecting it much later than we had originally hoped. We just recieved an e-mail from our agency changing the wait times for infant girls from 7-11 months to 11-18 months. They also stated that "wait times currently show a trend of increasing". As we were hoping to have a referral for our little princess by Christmas, this was almost heartbreaking for us as the trials of the adoption process are again setting in on us.

We humbly ask that you would pray for us, for our little girl, and for Ethiopia that God would continue to be in control and do things in His perfect timing and that we would have the power to trust in him.

Thanks for being there for us.

Happy 2nd Birthday Yiah!

Happy Birthday Yedidiya!!! We love you!!

Two at the Zoo

For his 2nd birthday, we took Yiah to the zoo. He loved the animals and telling us what noises they all made (especially the lion and the monkey). I think his favorite animal though was a snake, and his least favorite was the swan (in his defense, it nipped his hand twice looking for food. It was a mean swan). And while the animals were all well and good, the absolute favorite 2 things at the zoo...

the carousel and the choo-choo (of course)!