Khoa enjoying the Pool.

Here are a few short videos of Khoa today at the pool. He is too cute!!!

Lots of Good Things happening.....

We are so excited. We now have an Indiana Birth Certificate with Khoa's full name, listing us as his parents. It's a wonderful piece of paper! He also now has a social security number and we can FINALLY finish our taxes. The courts in Indiana offically recognized Khoa's Vietnamese adoption as a full and final adoption in Indiana also. Which basically means that the Indiana courts agreed with all of the Vietnamese documents and that the adoption is now listed in Indiana as full and final as of December 7, 2006 (the actual day of the adoption in Vietnam). On January 30th, 2007 Khoa's name was officially changed in the Indiana courts and legally has our last name. It is a wonderful feeling and we are so glad that we are done with the adoption paperwork! Praise the Lord.

His English is improving and we can understand most of what he is trying to tell us. Sadly, he no longer speaks any Vietnamese. I really wish that we could speak Vietnamese so that he wouldn't forget it all.


Erin now has her drivers license. Yikes!!! Am I really old enough to have a daughter that can drive? I guess so. She's only driven by herself now two times. It is so scary letting her drive away without anyone in the car. I told her yesterday that it took every ounce of Faith I had to let her leave. I just have to trust that God will keep her safe.


Betsy is so funny. One minute she is so good with Khoa and then the next minute, they are fighting like, well....sister and brother. Okay, since they ARE sister and brother, I guess that makes sense. :-) Anyway, Betsy is so good at teaching Khoa things. She has helped him learn to count to ten, how to sing several songs. She has even some how learned the one and only song that Khoa will sing in Vietnamese. She can sing in word for word and she is the only one that can get him to sing it. So sweet!





Here are a few pictures that describes Betsy and Khoa's relationship.....it's a "love, hate" relationship!

What's in a name???

I’ve decided that the hardest part of coming up with a blog entry is the Title. I mean if I give it some hum drum title, then the post may come across as boring. Please. As if I would ever write anything that was boring (ha ha…just trying to be funny). Seriously, I really do stress out about what the title of the entry will be…it all started when I was writing updates for our adoption blog. I love reading other blogs with fun titles. I want to have that snappy, eye catching, funny title. I’m sure the most memorable post in the adoption blog was the one titled "God, the Vietnamese Mail System, and a Hoochie Mama!" How’s that for a title! I AM rather proud of it. Okay, since it took me like two stinkin’ hours to figure out how to put the link in above, I’m going to call it quits for now. I hope that my posts are interesting enough that you’ll check back in to read what I’ve got on my mind.