Micah Loves Praise Music

Good Afternoon in Alabama and Good Evening in Ukraine,

Today we spent 3 hours with Micah because Luke's group had gone on an excursion. We are not sure where. We took advantage of the time to spend with Micah. He rode his tricycle and ran and played but as the old saying goes "Music will soothe the savage beast".

I got out my MP3 player and put the earphones in Micah's ears. It was amazing how calm he got. He did not want to stop listening. His favorite song is "It's all about You" from the Lakewood CD. He also likes Friend of God. He would dance and sing. He would take the earphones out to hear me and James singing and then he would laugh and pretend to sing. He loved getting on Papa's shoulders and walking around listening to the music. That is the calmest we have ever seen him. It looks like we will be playing praise music in the house all the time.

Not only does he like music but he likes to streak. Like all little boys they will go pee-pee outside and when he is done he likes to run with his britches down. He is a character just like his Uncle Chris. He loves attention and will do anything to get it.

We walked around the orphanage and when we got back around to the playgrounds Luke's group had gotten back. He came walking up and had the saddest look on his face. You could see the disappointment from not getting to spend time with us. There are 2 pictures above of me trying to console him and Micah trying to help me. We had to call Natalia and get her to explain that we had to leave but we would return in the afternoon to play. We gave him some juice and his favorite, Teddy Grahams. He seemed to feel a little better after that.

We returned this afternoon and were planning on spending the afternoon with Luke but when we got outside Micah's group was out playing. Micah spotted us and ran to us. We took the boys over to the new playground we found yesterday. After a few minutes a little boy kept coming over and before you new it there were lots of children and families.

We met 2 families that are here from Italy adopting. One family is adopting 3 children and the other is adopting 1. The kids all played and we had to keep Luke from getting his feelings hurt from kids taking his toys. We had to keep Micah from hurting kids feelings. haha

Micah requested musica so we got the MP3 player out again. This time we brought some headphones. He shared with Luke. His favorite thing to do was walk around the track and listen to the music and he was singing his own song. Luke likes the music also but likes to play more than listen to music.

We had a good day. Please be in prayer that tomorrow all our paperwork gets completed. Our facilitator has to go back to the other city and pick up the paperwork then come here to the inspector. After all that is completed it will go to the SDA for a court date. We ar praying everything is completed tomorrow so not to delay things.

We are really home sick but we know that God has a plan and has put some wonderful people in our path.

Happy Labor Day!