The Waring's Journey: Our Day At The Museum

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Our Day At The Museum

Thought I'd share a few pictures from a trip to the museum I took with my friend Susan, Addi, Levi, and her great nephew Ethan. We had a great time and enjoyed our morning together. Outside it was really warm, foggy and although the snow was melting there was still ice on the trees and bushes.

Levi was not too keen on the big stuffed polar bear and even with me holding him, was not too happy. LOL

Addi and Ethan

Addison

Levi showing his teeth like the dinosaur's.

Cool reflection of him, huh.

Ethan looks as scared as the rabbit

LOL

Levi was on the move and couldn't stop too long for anything. He was so excited. If Susan and I stopped to look as something, Levi would shout..."Hurry Mom!!!, Hurry..You HAVE to see this!!!" I thought he might have a small heart attack, his heart was beating so fast with excitement.
He was WAY TOO CUTE!!

Susan with the boys

The trees were so pretty.

Levi ridding the Jayhawk. Yes, we are big KU fans.

Getting two young, goofy boys to smile is almost impossible. :))

This was a art structure that the campus spent lots of money making. It looks like a tornado of dried sticks. I guess it's pretty fitting for Kansas. Most people around here do wonder what it's like inside one. .... Welp, now we know, minus the wind. LOL

This is looking up from inside it.

Me and the kido's

We had a great time and can't wait to do it again. I know Levi and Ethan would like us to go back every Saturday, if not... just move in and live there.

hahaha

It truly was a lot of great fun, but my favorite part was just watching the excitement from the kids.

That made my day... Kids are AWESOME!

Thank you Jesus for the one's You've given me.

5 comments:

DDawson said...: Our kids LOVE that place and ask to go back all the time. We even have our own photo of the boys on that Jayhawk...we are starting the indoctrination early. lol! I think we may have to take a trip to Lawrence to see that tornado thing. That is awesome! Looks like you had a great day. We should plan a day for you to come join us on one of our free kid activities around KC. Lots of fun!; January 26, 2010 at 2:21 PM
Angela said...: AWESOME! Love how he was excited! Miss chatting. You can email me anytime! Love, Ang; January 26, 2010 at 8:33 PM
Mayshell-Ann said...: I love the pictures! Especially the one of Addi she is so sweet. I love my former roommate. Loved the pictures of the plants circled with ice. You have an eye for finding beauty in rare places. Love you!; January 30, 2010 at 1:49 PM
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Our Hope To Adopt Embryos

Hi, my name is Tracy and here is our story,

My husband, Richard, and I have been happily married for 21 years. Early on in our marriage, we were diagnosed with complete male factor infertility. We have been blessed with three beautiful children through separate open adoptions. Bailey, now 17, was born during the time of our lives when my husband and I were grieving the loss of our only pregnancy from donor insemination. She was born when our baby would have been. Her birth was like a healing salve to our hurting hearts. Once we discovered that the Lord could fill our aching arms with such delight through adoption, we began to pray for the Lord to bring us another child.

We hoped and prayed for 6 years when Addison was born. She is now 11. In the time of waiting until the Lord brought our second child into our lives, He did an amazing work upon our heart towards opening our relationship up with Bailey's birthmother. We started out slow and before we knew it, she was a full active part of our family. Today, she is my best friend and we share many of our life experiences together. When Addison came into our lives, her birthparents were already friends that we had known for some time and loved dearly. Keeping the doors of our relationship open throughout her adoption was easy and our hearts today love them with even a greater love than ever before.

Levi is 3 and we just had his birthday party with many friends, our family and his birthmother and her family also. Reiko, his birthmother feels like a daughter to us and her presence in our family is wonderful. She has recently birthed another son named Heidern (pronounced Heiden), that we consider our grandson even though he is Levi's 1/2 brother.

We love all of our birth families very much and have contact with them on a regular basis. We have five birth families for our three children. Keeping everyone up to date with all that goes on in our family is much easier done with updates on our family blog.

For me, the road to motherhood for the past 21 years seemed only possible through domestic adoption. Now that the Lord has opened my eyes to embryo adoption, the longing to birth is again revived and stirred within me. The thought that there might be a way to hold a child of mine without traveling through the pain of another person, is something I look forward to. I love my children so dearly but I also know that their birth parents felt deep sorrow during my greatest time of joy (their birth). That realization is so hard on my heart because of the love I hold for them.

As a profession, I am a labor doula. I watch families birth without sorrow and it is so different than what I've witnessed with the births of my children. I pray that the Lord will allow me to experience this side of motherhood and to have joy without sorrow as our sweet new baby/babies come into our lives. We are praying that the gift of someone's embryos would be this for us.

We are so excited to meet and get to know the family of the embryos and make them a part of our family. We promise to love and cherish the children that come from them and the door to our hearts and home will always be open for you to get to know the children born. Honestly, there is nothing more precious to us than the lives of our children and the hope of the children to come.

We will continue to pray for this dream to come true and place our hope and trust upon the Lord to continue to build our family. We know that in His perfect timing He will bring us our precious little embryos, and bond us to (hopefully) you , a beautiful genetic family.

I have a life verse that has encouraged me throughout our journey.

1 Peter 5:10

But may the God of all grace, who called us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

Waiting for the joy set before us,

Richard and Tracy Waring.