Even though we still don't understand why things went the way they did with the adoption and still struggle in our minds and heart with how to grow our family - things in life are GOOD. Zeke is growing and learning so many new things every day. He knows he's becoming a big boy and is always wanting to sit at the big table to eat and do everything else that big kids do. He's learned all his letters and some numbers and shapes and it's hard to believe with the amount he's talking and doing that he's only a year and a half old. And at the same time, I find myself thinking "What!? He's a year and a half OLD?!" I know when his second birthday comes I might cry. That feels like the official crossing over into kid-life from baby-life. Time to quit counting his age in months. He'll be "tall" instead of "long" and if I know Zeke he'll be talking in 3 word sentences by then! Hah, just kidding... Kind of...
Things in ministry are going well too. We're doing this thing where I started having a few of the kids from church over on Tuesday afternoons to learn to cook and bake. We've made cookies and this week we made pizza. Next week they say they want to make blueberry muffins! My specialty! Maybe I'll have them smash up some blackberries to put in too. Nothing like a blueberry muffin with some smashed up blackberries in it!
With all the drama in the neighborhood and the church about what to do with the kids and how to help them, I just want them to have a safe and loving place to be - even just for an hour or two. We're having awesome fun and eating yummy food. And hopefully they are learning something about cooking! The kids took tons of photos of the cooking but just now when I tried to load them on the computer they disappeared from the camera! You'll have to wait til next week for some pics.
