Random October

I had planned on adding a lot of pictures to this post but that will have to wait because it seems I have run out of photo space on my blog and I have to purchase more space if I want to add more pictures. I knew this day would come, at least it will only cost me $5 a year. But here are the pictures I was able to download. They are from Chusok, the Korean Thanksgiving celebration we had with our adoption agency, Dillon Southwest. It's always great to be around other families who have adopted from South Korea. Anna really enjoyed it this year and came home asking if we could please move to South Korea because she really likes their fans, their rice, and she wonders what the houses look like there. I am very happy she is embracing her culture and I hope we can continue to develop that in her. 

The adoption agency had special visitors fly in from South Korea. The first three Korean women you see here pictured left to right are all foster moms. They take care of the babies until they are ready to go to their forever families. The woman on the far right is an intake worker and she works with the birth mothers when they make the choice of giving their babies up for adoption. Anna's foster mom, Mrs. Lee was not one of the visitors that came. We hope some day to be able to meet her. And we are not sure if this particular intake worker was the one who worked with Anna's birth mother.

Taking a bow.

There were also Korean dancers.

We were able to have this woman write Annagrace's name in Korean, or Hangul as it is more appropriately called.

Anna found this very interesting. 

Moving on, Jadon found this praying mantis the other day and kept it for a few days. We took a picture before Jadon let it go. 

Michael was out of town on Sunday and the kids and I decided to sleep in and do church at home. We do this every once in a while and we really enjoy it when we do. I had the kids be in charge this time and they each had to come up with one thing to do. Jadon decided to do an experiment and explain how when we sin, it separates us from God. He demonstrated this with water, pepper, and soap. When you put a drop of soap in the water, the pepper clumps together and moves to the other side of the bowl. I'm not sure what components represent God, sin, and us but he did a pretty good job explaining it to us.

Anna told us a Bible story (from memory) about the farmer who puts three of his workers in charge of his money while he goes away. Here she is saying, "and he gave the first man 5 talents..."

I followed up by reading the Bible story.

Camden chose to give us all communion and since we didn't have any grape juice, we pretended to dip the bread in the juice. Camden explained about Jesus dying on the cross and how the bread represents the skin that was broken.

Anna played Jesus Loves me on the piano. 

And that's all folks! I had so much more random October pics I wanted to share but this will have to do until I buy more space. See you after I make that purchase!