Over a week

I can't believe we've been home with the boys for over a week! It seems like longer in some ways- they really fit in well in our family. Shane and I are a little nervous if this is the honeymoon phase- Kalid (pronounced Kah-leed) and Abuzaid (pronounced A boo- z eye ed) have adjusted so well and besides the fact that they still speak pretty much no English, they are just like Jonah and Landon. We have been so blanketed in prayer through this whole experience. K and A have had so many people praying for them for the 5 months since we've known about them. Actually, I started praying for them before we knew who they were too- so that's a lot of prayer for our boys!! I know that's part of it. There will be hard times- there's hard times being a parent- period! No way getting out of the tough stuff! But, we will continue to seek God's will in our lives and in the lives of all 4 of our boys and know that He is sufficient for all of us.
So, health-wise, they're healthy little boys! Kalid had mild pneumonia and both had horrible coughs when we got home, but with some antibiotics, their coughs are gone already- yea! Blood work all came back great- all the testing they did in ET was accurate, just incomplete. TB test was read today- negative! HIV, Hep B and C, all the other 'bad' stuff you might think of- negative! We had to get 3 stool samples for both of them- yes, that's a total of 6 stool samples- the things we do for our kids! I turned in 3 of them to the lab last week and was getting ready to take the other 3 in to the lab this afternoon when our dr. called and said to just throw them away- we already had results (really, after all that work? Just throw it away?!:)). They have pinworms and some other thing that I don't know how to spell. All 6 of us get to be on medication since they're contagious things.
But other than that, which would be very uncommon if they came from an orphanage in Africa without something intestinal, they're healthy!!!

The other thing I've been thinking about (sorry this is long today) is how happy I am that we ended up adopting 2 kids. I think the transition has been easier in part, because they have each other. I'm almost positive, that if it was just Kalid, the transition wouldn't be so smooth! It's helped him so much to have Abuzaid there. Of course, there would've never been a time where they would separate siblings, but we didn't go into this saying siblings- it was just a God thing.

I better get the boys in the bath- last night they played in it for a long time and came out pruney- they just kept looking at their hands with amazement. Abuzaid ran upstairs saying, "Apoppa, apoppa!" and showed him his hands. It's the little things in life. Love all 4 of my boys and am excited about the possibilities in all of their lives!!!