Sophia turns 3

Here she is, sporting her birthday presents.

First T-Ball Game

We had our first T-Ball game yesterday. It was crazy hot, but Easton really seemed to dig it. He played catcher, which in T-Ball, means you get to stand closest to the dugout while you kick the dirt around. He is the smallest dude on the team, but he makes up for it with his attitude.

He was also last in the batting order, so that meant all the other team had to do to get him out was put the ball on the tee. That didn't stop him from running all the bases EVERY time he got up to bat though. Rarely was there any one left on the field when he crossed home plate. Three illegitimate in-the-park home runs makes a dad proud. He had the biggest smile every time he came home, which made sitting in the sun worth it.



Here he is coming into home. Notice that no one is left in the field and the ball is sitting squarely on the tee. He ran hard all the way to the end.

And... the smile.

Court Finally

We finally got on the ball and got the final documentation for Addis today. Well, mostly all of it. We still have to wait on a birth certificate and social security number, but we are very close. I freaked everyone out on Facebook by saying that we had to "readopt" Addis. It has a much more technical term, but I didn't feel like sending out all the details with twitter. You only get 140 characters.

To be honest, we waited this long because we had no clue what we were supposed to do. If you don't live in Texas, Gladney doesn't have much for you. We found a great adoption lawyer in town for all of you NWA families that are in process. His name is Keith Morrison, and he was very helpful and has five adopted kids himself, so he knows the process first hand.

Here are all the kids waiting patiently in the hallway before our appointment.


Keith took Addis back to see Judge Mashburn first. Thankfully, Addis has never met a stranger so he was happy to go along.


Judge Mashburn has a picture with every adoptive family he has ever been able to approve in his career. He was a great man and was proud to be a part of our story.



As of today, he is officially Addis Zachary Yeabsera Kennedy.
(This morning, he was legally Yeabsera Zachary Kennedy.)

Pictures, pictures, pictures!!!

Ok, so my husband is completely annoyed with me for this post. I wanted to catch everyone up with pictures and in his opinion I picked a few too many for one post. I decided I like to look at other peoples pictures more than I like to read stuff so maybe you all will agree with me and enjoy the pictures! (This is for you Mo!)

This is Catherine's dance recital...She was so excited everyone came to watch her.



This is part of our trip to Hot Springs...

Can you believe my kids jump off of this? Sophie did it last year before she was even 2!





Rainy day...


Easton started T-ball and LOVES it!


This is swim lessons week. I love that our kids love the water!

For any of you who have read our blog before you have seen the Kennedy family water slide. They have so much fun on this thing!

I loved this picture...

And of course this one...

Waterslide Fun

A Hair Update

It is getting crazy long, though you would never know it. When it gets wet, his brothers and sisters say he has girl hair because it goes down his back.