Pardon the cheesy title - I couldn't resist.
This past Saturday we had Tali, and Stan and I decided to take our little crew to the Kansas City Zoo. I haven't decided if we were brave, crazy, or both.... but our adventure that COULD have been semi-disastrous (because Isaac is pretty unpredictable and Tali is still a little extra emotional) actually ended up being a really fun day! Isaac slept the ENTIRE time we were at the zoo... about 4 hours. It was so wonderful... and Tali enjoyed helping Stan push her stroller as much as she enjoyed seeing the animals. :) I think the kangaroos were her favorites - same as last time she and I were there together. She loves to hop, hop, hop like a kangaroo. :)
The new polar bear exhibit at the zoo (new as of this past July) is REALLY cool. The polar bear (Nikita is its name, I think.) is absolutely magnificent.
As a side note, Tali is doing better and better every time we babysit her. (We are keeping her every Saturday while her mom works.) We had her both Saturday AND Sunday this past weekend because her mom worked some overtime. Sunday she successfully NAPPED at our house (she has had a hard time doing that the last few times we've had her). Praise the Lord! Huge breakthrough. She is still more emotional than she was when she lived with us, but getting less so, and more like her normal, happy-go-lucky self every time we see her. She still SPRINTS to us when she sees us, and still cries when she has to go back to her birth mom, which breaks our hearts. Our relationship with her birth mom has improved dramatically and I feel like we've built a good deal of trust with her. We are trying to be supportive of both of them and just be a consistent source of stability and safety for Tali as much as we can. It is still really hard, to be honest.... Our hearts, and our arms, still ache for her every day....we miss her so much. As much as we adore our sweet Isaac, our family feels incomplete without our Tali-bug. We trust that God will continue to heal our hearts, and hers. Hard journey. But He is faithful. And we are thankful to get to still be a part of her life as much as we are now.
Anyway... here are some pictures from our zoo day. In case you're wondering, it's okay for me to post pics of Tali on our blog now. :) Sooo, here ya go!
Stan = Super Dad! He should have a cape! :)
The monkey says, "Ooh ooh, ah ah!"
The polar bear swam right by us! So cool!
The polar bear's habitat is soooo beautiful!
You can see him up on a rock in the background.
Checkin' out the kangaroos. It's so cool because there's nothing separating them from us. They just stay back in their little area somehow. :)
"Push! Push!" (Which translates, "Let me push! I wanna do it!")
The aftermath! :)
More aftermath. We are exhausted! :)
1 comment:
Precious! Thank you for sharing photos of your beautiful family. I will be praying for Tali. We still see our foster daughter who was returned almost two years ago and it can still be a tearful goodbye. Some days it doesn't seem fair that these little ones have to go through so much change, but we trust in a God who loves and protects them more than we ever could!
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