A'isha

Facebook is a great tool, but one of its disadvantages is that once you start using it, you may tend to neglect your blog. After all, if all your friends are reading the news on Facebook, what's the point of putting it into the blog? So, even though we've had a new foster baby since she was born 9 weeks ago, you wouldn't know unless you've been following our Facebook posts. I'll definitely have to try to keep on top of this blog as well as the fast-moving target of Facebook. (By the way, if you would like to add us as a friend on Facebook and we don't know you too well, please put a comment in your friend request since I generally don't accept what look like random requests.)

A'isha came to us via the crisis pregnancy program at Evangel. We don't know much of the story of her mother and family, just that someone was needed to care for her for a while. She's been a delightful baby—everyone remarks how cute she is. The biggest challenge we've had with her is that it takes a long time to feed her and get her back to sleep at night. One or the other of us is usually up from 1 to 2 hours for each feeding (yes, I'm taking my turns too!). Fortunately, she's transitioning down to only one feeding each night. For the first 6 or 7 weeks, though, we were pretty exhausted.

Luke

Luke is doing quite well, especially with his reading. We always read a Bible story at bedtime, but lately he has been asking to read one aloud to us from his easy Bible. It's so encouraging! He's also getting captivated by books in a new way. Until this year, it was hard to get him to listen very long (although we did read all but he last book in the Narnia series). Now, though, we're reading from 30 minutes to even more than an hour after dinner every night, and Luke usually asks for more. We've read Jungle Book, A Wrinkle in Time, Stowaway to the Mushroom Planet, Carry On Mr. Bowditch, a Hardy Boys mystery, and others. We also often find him asleep in bed with his head in a book (not that we want him to lose sleep, mind you). This new love of books proves he's a real Blyth!