Party Time!

I just love parties.... especially birthday parties. One of my favorite things at the foster home is celebrating each child's birthday. I love making them feel special and loved. And, it's an excellent excuse to eat cake. When I lived in China in 2010 I didn't really like Chinese cake but now I LOVE it. I think it gets better each time. Maybe southern China cake is better than northern China cake? Or maybe it has grown on me? Or maybe, China as improved their cake baking abilities in the last 3 years. 

 Not to mention that they are absolutely beautiful! Cakes in the states don't look like this (that I know of). I especially love all the fruit on them. Makes it feel a bit "healthier" right? ;-) Ok, not really...

This month, we celebrated this little Angel who turned 1...

 ... and this Precious boy who turned 3.

The rest of the kids don't really care that it's not their birthday.... they just love eating cake!

 "Yeah CAKE!!!"

 Happy Birthday Angel and Precious! I love both of you so very much and love watching God work miracles in your lives.

Laughter

Precious arrived just a few short weeks ago.

He has gone not only to smiling.

But to laughing. 

And let me tell you, his laughter is contagious! 

This my friends, is a miracle.

Right before my eyes.

Seeing this little boy in an orphanage last June and again in January and how sad he was.

It's truly a miracle where he is today.

Glory be to God alone.

Precious

It sure has been a busy week in the Foster Home! Three new arrivals in less than 24 hours... that must be some sort of record around here! I will admit that having three of our little ones leave to join their adoptive families over the last month and a half, it hasn't been the same around here.

 

Too quiet. Much too quiet.

 

But as I stopped over to the foster home the other day, I can see that that is about to change!

 

This Precious little boy arrived on Thursday.

 

He was scared.

Quiet.

Timit and shy.

 

I first met him back in June when we went to visit his orphange which is also the home orphanage of Miracle and Sweetheart.

In June he was lying in a crib.

When we visited again just a few weeks ago, he was still lying in a crib.

That's when we knew we HAD to do something.

It has been an amazing transformation. In just a few days he has come out of his shell a bit.

He still has a ways to go but he is smiling.

And in my book, smiling is HUGE.

He has the most precious smile and I know he is going to blossom and grow.

Precious had surgery yesterday which was successful but will you continue to lift him up to our Heavenly Father for a quick recovery?

The Father who will never leave him nor forsake him.

The Father who has loved him when no one else did.

"For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them."

Psalm 139:13-16