Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Our friend Jessica Horton, who is a photographer, took some pictures of Claire for her 6th birthday. She is very hard to get a picture of...so great job Jess!









As you can see, for a 6 yr old, she still has a ton of catching up to do. But, again, she has come so far. We celebrate the little things with Claire, because for her, even the little things are big things. A couple weeks ago, she started clapping on command! It was a huge cause for celebration in our house. We were all so excited and happy! I think we scared her as we erupted into our own thunderous clapping and cheering! She works really hard in therapy learning the most basic things such as "come sit", "look at me", etc... We are working on getting her to wave at us too and are hoping to soon start working on potty training.

Sophie's Song

Our friend Thad Fiscella wrote a song for our little Sophie. How cool is that! He has offered to share the profits from the sale of this song to help us bring Sophie home. If you would like to hear a sample of the song or purchase a copy for your self, please visit: http://thadfiscella.bandcamp.com

Please help us get our precious Sophia home by making a donation!

"Apples for Orphans" You could Win an Apple iPad 2!

AND THE WINNER OF THE NEW I-PAD2 IS......

CONNIE HILL OF BLUE SPRINGS, MO!!!!!
Congratulations Connie!!!

We want to send a HUGE thank you for all the hard work and time invested to sell tickets to Julie Dotson, Lisa McCarthy, Haley Haworth, Janet Wickenhouser, and Carol Lombard. Each of these friends sold tickets in their home state and mailed the proceeds and tickets to us to be entered into the drawing. You guys were truly the hands and feet of Jesus! Thank you!!

We want to thank EVERYONE that bought raffle tickets to help us get sweet Sophie home. Because of all of the generosity and kindness shown to us we are getting closer and closer to finally being in the air to go get our girl!
Have a great evening and God bless all of you!
In Him,
Chris and Leslie