Are you her Mom or Dad? NO, pray for her then!

This is National Adoption Month and many of you know how close to my heart adoption and orphan ministry as a whole is to my heart! I have ALWAYS had a soft spot in my heart for it but once God called me into the journey myself I have learned so much more about how important it all is, as if the Lord TELLING us in His Word to care for them was not enough. Shame on me for not understanding more before. Anyway, A little girl is in DANGER and she needs a home NOW! She is 4 years old and if someone does not step forward SOON to commit to her she will be sent to an institution and NEVER have a family. She will be unadoptable if she is transfered. Please please look upon the face of this beautiful little girl.

LERA
- Born: August 7, 2005

Lera is a gorgeous little girl with blonde hair and blue eyes. She is 4 years old. She is quite high functioning, and doing very well. She has flat feet and a systolic heart murmur, but no major heart conditions. She is able to walk and climb, she eats by herself, dances, and understands and follows directions. She has also been transferred to the regular class, so she is living and learning with her typical peers.

Lera lives in Russia and if a family does not commit to her within the next few DAYS, her time will be up. She will be sent to a mental institution where she will then be unadoptable. She will spend out the rest of her days tied down to a crib... left there to die. She will get no medical care, hardly any food, and no love. She will never have parents to call her own. My heart aches just thinking about it.

There's a grant of $1,000 available to the family that adopts her. To hear that her time is running out is painful Lera deserves a chance to live, to be happy, to go to school and have friends and have a mom and dad to hug her and kiss her owies and soothe her when she has a bad dream. She deserves a chance to be a ballerina or dress up like a princess for Halloween, if she wants to... she doesn't deserve to be tied to a crib and left to die. Just because she has Down syndrome.

Here are the specifications for Russia:
* 2 trips
* Both parents for first trip, about one week
* Both parents travel for 2nd trip, approximately 14 days
(One parent may leave after the court proceedings are finalized, after about 5 days.)
* Total program and travel fees under $25k
* Fee includes a $1000 orphanage donation
* Only one child can be adopted at a time
* Married couples and single mothers may apply

There is also a $5000 grant through Reeces Rainbow that will be available after the adoption is final!

Could you be Lera's parents? She's waiting...

What happens when a 2 year old wiggles...

and his Mama is not a professional Haircutter!

THIS!!!! At least he is only 2 and doesn't know that he is scalped! I did not even really plan to cut Noah's hair. I had been thinking about letting it grow out and just keeping it cut around ears and the back and front from getting to long but letting it all grow to that point so I can run my hand through it when I rock him! It was just starting to get back like it was before the BIG oops the last time. I am so not good at this! Uggh. Anyway, I had to cut Bobby's for work. Thankfully Bobby likes is scalped basically! I do that well! lol . So after Daddy was done Noah had a fit to have his done, he was smacking the chair, pointing at the clippers and signing please! So I gave in and did not plan to do much, well he decided to wiggle and things went a whole other way and once it happens in one spot we are commited to continue! lol Bobby thinks it looks great and says not to worry. I am thinking how much longer it will be till I can play with his hair. I am sure Bobby would say to me he is not a girl! lol

Just thought this was a cute shot of him showing the hair, or lack their off! lol



sooo cute!


Well, our I-600A arrived safe and sound at the new lockbox place in Texas. I have no clue how long it will take to get our fingerprint appointment and then our approval letter because it is all so new now having to do things this way. Other adoptive families have shared with me they are worried it will slow things down and I am praying against that.



Here is my signature confirmation! That you Lord for Fedex and tracking so I KNOW and don't have to worry until I hear something from them!


Before the haircut fiasco I had been planning to post these pictures from Saturday with some catchy post title like EEK! I can't find Baby Noah! Where is he? I think a combination of the fact we are growing like a weed and also have a few clothes now that look like a big boy Noah is looking so OLD to us. Bobby came home the other night and Noah was in a onsie Shirt and blue Jeans and he said "HE LOOKS 4! lol Not quite but it does seem like it! He is 29 pounds and wearing 24 months clothes now! He can still wear some 18 months clothes and even size 12 months pants but if it is a one peice especially it is 24 months now! Anway on to photos :)


He is helping me by vacuuming with his puppy vacuum! How I wish that thing worked!


Saturday we walked next door to our Neices 13th Birthday Party!


I thought this looked so cute him walking holdin Daddy's hand!!



Noah loves to walk outside! :) I so love my Sister in law's yard with the white picket fence :)



See! Doesn't he look like he is grown! This is a new thing wanting to sit in a regular chair! :)


Isn't that adorable! He is sitting there with his hands in front of him on the table watching Melissa with her cookie cake and candles! I was a bit worried he might try to grab for the candles but he just watched Aunt Michelle light them all!


I love this shot!!! :)

After eating and presents it was outside to play in the yard! Noah was the youngest by a few years and to boot the next oldest is quite a big guy for his age but Noah still had a blast! :)


I love this picture of him walking :) He looks like such a big boy! :) WHERE IS MY BABY PANDA BOY??


He loves slides! Look how good he is doing! :)



This turned out to be a neat shot of him landing at the bottom of the slide!



Is that not soo cute! :) Don't know why but I just thought it was adorable :)



and I love this one too, Usually I really love the smiles best but for some reason this one jumps out at me!



This was amazing to me! He sat on a big boy swing and he let Bobby push him a little and held on!!! Now he flips on the baby swings at the park so this so surprised me! :)


Such a big boy! My baby is growing fast!


I LOVE this shot of him on the swing! He is having such fun and smiling up a storm! ;)



This is Logan (Noah's cousin) and Noah just a swingin!


Hanging out in the house with the guys! :)

And I wanted to share something I made with some of the pictures we have been given of Jeremiah! : We have not gotten a new picture since early september so this mama is really really praying for an update SOON! I know we are blessed to be in a program where we get updates at all but when you are use to once a month or a little over when the day of the month you are use to comes and no picture or update its hard, I have now passed that twice! I am thankful to have all of you who read and comment and encourage us on in the journey. This blog in and of itself is such a miracle to me. It is a way for me to share with all of you who are praying, who have become our friends, and who have fallen in love with our boys right along with us, but it is also a way to share with our boys someday what we felt and thought and wrote while we waited. I don't know if Jeremiah will ever be able to understand the words I write here but we do believe Noah will be able to understand the ones we wrote in his journey and still do now. I feel like in alot of ways parts of these posts are letters to my sons, especially the parts I have written to them at the bottom but even the parts that I share with all of you.

Anyway what do yall think of our youngest son??

The Many Faces of Jeremiah Harold Sisemore!

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Jeremiah, my sweet Frogie Boy! Mama misses you so much, I know the day will come and you will read all these things and wonder how I can miss you before I have even met you in person, held you, touched you, but oh I so do. I ache to hold you, to smell you, to stroke your skin, to feel your hair and see is it rough or very soft, to KNOW if you are ok, if you are sick, sleeping, hungry, sad, lonely, or happy and laughing. To see one of those amazing smiles directed at ME and to be able to smile back at you! To get down on the floor with you and spend time together. I don't know how I will ever explain to you and your big brother how I could love you when I was paper pregnant and you were not physically in my body, but you both grew in my heart. God put that love for you there from the second he shared with us that he was giving us each of you! Right now this time seems so long and so hard, this working and waiting, but it is really just such a short time in eternity and I have to trust that God's timing is perfect and that God will get the glory for all the miracles that already have and are continueing to happen to bring you home! I love you frogie boy and we are coming soon. Until then catch my kisses in the wind!