One Month

E is now one month old. It’s amazing how they grow so fast. She is already so much more responsive. She is starting to look more like a baby and less like a new born.

We received good news this week. My brother and his wife have been waiting to adopt for over a year now. They were hoping to get placed when we had J. They got announced to over the weekend. It’s a boy and he is due March 10^th. I’m excited E will have more cousins her age. So far J is the only odd man out. All the other kids have cousins on one or both sides that are close to their age.

Their baby will be half black and half white. They were hoping to adopt a black boy, so they are really excited about this. I talked to a friend here that adopted bi-racial children. She said she always gets questions when she is out with her kids. I wonder, without begin disrespectful, if the "Mother at the Swing" (see Karin's blog) might also apply to this situation.

I remember a story from my youth of a bishop asking people to stand if they lived during the life of latter day prophets. He started with Joseph Smith. A chuckle went through the audience in reply. Then he read Brigham Young. To the surprise of the then young story teller one of the aged widows in the ward stood. She had been born a few months before Brigham Young died. I think with the passing of Gordon B. Hinckley perhaps one day E will be an aged widow who will connect a child to him.