A New Name

The twins have been so excited to share with everyone at church their new names. James had quite a time getting his 4 names in order, but now that he's told 100 people or so, he's got it down pat.  He is really into making conversation with people about the adoption and the courthouse and everything.  People have been wonderfully supportive of the twins excitement and it's good to see them feel like the church is "their" church and the people are their extended family. One couple asked if they could be their surrogate grandparents, which suites everybody just fine. A lady we barely know attended the meeting at our church last night and brought a little gift for each of the twins. Missy's is a cute stuffed bunny that says an evening prayer. She's so thrilled with it.

There is a series of meetings going on at the church and my family is heavily involved in the children's meetings. The twins LOVE to go and I do believe they are learning a lot!! They love Sabbath school, too and they are starting to be able to really tell us what they learned there each week. Although I'm not ready to move on from last week's verse, the new verse of the week is:

The fear of man brings a snare, 

but whoever trusts in the Lord shall be safe. 

Proverbs 29:25

I'm thinking this verse is probably more for me than for the kids. They could give a hoot what anybody thinks about anything. Inclination leans towards the feelings of the given moment when you are a child. It's teens and adults that struggle with putting human opinion in it's proper place.

Here's a fun photo taken at the church open-house of all our adopted kiddos.

P.S I just noticed I called Anna-Joy Missy. It's natural... besides I call her that in real life ALOT, too!~