Day 5- Half Way There

Yes, we have made it half way through! It is amazing that we only have five more days to go! Today the girls were a bit on the difficult side, but we made it through after a 2 hour nap!!! :) The plan was that they would got to ballet and gymnastics today, but after tears and sobs of, "But I don't want to go to ballet and gymnastics today!!!!" I decided to forgo the classes and call it NAP TIME! Of course that was a fight within itself for the younger of the two, who will do anything in her power not to sleep. Finally they were both quiet and I was able to get some work done. Around 5:00pm I woke them up... Isabelle had slept the whole time and was well rested while Abigail, you guessed it, did not sleep a wink. However, she was in a wonderful mood and did not give me any trouble the rest of the night. :)
This evening we had a lot of Halloween fun. Angelina was home and we decided to carve our pumpkins that we got at the pumpkin patch! I had both the girls draw a picture of what they wanted their pumpkins to look like, and then Angelina and I carved them. Abigail wanted hers to have triangle eye, a triangle nose, and a smile with one tooth lost just like her. Isabelle on the other had decided to portray her most inner feelings about mom and dad being gone, so she wanted hers to have oval eyes, a nose and a sad little mouth with tears. Although this sounds very mournful, she did it all with a smile on her face and giggling. However, they both are doing very!
At about 9:00pm all six of us kids were able to talk to my parents... They are doing very well and have felt the hand of God truly touching them and those around them. Angelina and I were in tears listening to the stories they were telling us over the phone. The Holy Spirit is doing AMAZING things over in Ethiopia and your prays are much appreciated! Thank you everyone for all your love and support.