p.young and the restless: Our newest cousins

What a joy it was to adopt Tanielu and bring him home to our family four years ago! Recently we have had the blessing of getting to know two of his birth cousins, Leah and Nikki. These beautiful girls were adopted by a family in Idaho. We only found out last summer that they were all related. We finally met them in person at Christmas time. We also got to go to lunch with them last Monday. What a neat family! We feel like we were gifted with a new set of relatives. Tanielu adores the girls. He thi

nks they are beautiful and immediately fell in love with them. I have really enjoyed talking with Kathy, their Mom, about the challenges and rewards of raising a spirited Samoan child. It is amazing how many of their qualites are similar. They have never ending appetites and are very emotional just like Tanielu. They are also strong-willed, dynamic, and have a ton of energy too. We are thankful we have been blessed with these new cousins!

Silly Kid Stuff

January 2009 Anna stands up and starts dancing by our table in the restaurant. I tell her it isn't the place for dancing and she replies: "Mom, its always the place for dancing!"
November 2008 I instruct Tanielu to use his silverwear and not his hands while eating dinner and he casually replies: "Mom, I'm Samoan."
August 2008 Anna tells me she thinks it would be fun to have Hannah Montana as her older sister because then she would have really cool hand me downs.
Sunday July 6, 2008 Anna's teacher gave a lesson on the 10 lepers and taught the children about how only one came back to thank the Savior after they were healed. After class her teacher told me that Anna was the only one who thanked him for teaching class that day. What a special little girl!
Wednesday July 2, 2008 Owen and I had a date night together because Anna and Tani were at the cousins for a sleepover and Rod was working late. I asked him what he would like to do and he chose to get donuts and eat them in Mom's bed while we watched "go diego go go". Later we were talking and I told him how I couldn't wait to see what he would grow up to be because he is such a neat boy. He told me he would like to grow up to be a Dad. Then he said "but I might grow up then get little again because I ate so much junk!"
May 2008 Anna and Rod were having a long talk. Rod told Anna that picking me to be his wife was the most important and best decision he had ever made. Anna replied: "That's why I love you so much Dad!"
Owen age 3 (May 2008) I look outside in time to see Owen's bare buns and a golden fountain as he pees off our second story deck.
Tanielu age 4 (May 2008) while listening to the radio: "This is girl music Dad. It's not rock and roll!"
May 2008 I send Owen and Tanielu outside to play after telling them to stay out of the mud. I look out a little later and see them both playing with the hose in an enormous mud puddle. They were completely covered head to toe in mud. Their smiles were priceless! I wish I had taken a picture but I was too frustrated at the disobedience to stop and enjoy the moment. Live and learn.

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Saturday, May 31, 2008

Our newest cousins

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