She knows her name
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Friday, 16 May 08 - 05:42 PM (GMT) By Amy Moore in Family |
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It is amazing what medical advances have done in our family. I never dreamed of having a child that could not hear anything. But I am seeing more and more how I am thankful that God gave her to our family. I have learned in the last few days how much we take for granted. With all of our other children, I just talked to them, and they learned. With Mariah it is different. We have to have talk and talk and talk some more. For Mackie that is not a problem, but for the rest of us, we get tired of repeating and repeating and repeating this to Mariah. However this week is has paid off. Mariah is now responding to her name. She has also learned what "Kitty Kitty" is. When we say her name from the kitchen when she is in the living room, she will turn her head to see who is calling her name. This morning I was upstairs leaning over the rails calling her name. Mariah was sitting on the bottom step, and I started calling her name. This was a little mean because she has not learned to localize sounds up and down (usually we do not have to do that). But she was looking all over to see where her name was coming from. It was so cool, and we got a kick out of it.
Here are a few pictures from therapy yesterday. We were learning the "pop" "pop" sound....
It's between me and Him!
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Thursday, 15 May 08 - 02:08 AM (GMT) By Amy Moore in General |
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ANYWAY
People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.
The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Be good anyway.
Honesty and frankness will make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.
People need help but will attack you if you help them.
Help them anyway.
In the final analysis, it is between you and God.
It was never between you and them anyway.
* Kent Keith originated this poem in 1968, and Mother Teresa placed it on her children's home in Calcutta in a slightly different version. As a result, many have attributed it to Mother Teresa
Orphans
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Monday, 05 May 08 - 10:07 AM (GMT) By Amy Moore in Adoption |
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What does your mind do with numbers like
143 Million orphans around the world
500,000 in the US foster system
250 in my back door!
Lots of prayer! The church has dropped the ball in taking care of these numbers, we have to take responsibility, and do our part, whatever it may be, but we all have a part to play!
Mariah's new friend
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Tuesday, 29 April 08 - 09:55 PM (GMT) By Amy Moore in Family |
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David loves to be outside, so it is no surprise when he brings in things. On this day, he was amazed with the caterpillars!! I thought it would be fun to see what Mariah thought about them. I think her face speaks for itself!
A trip to the zoo
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Friday, 18 April 08 - 02:03 AM (GMT) By Amy Moore in General |
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Today was a great day after the night I had last night with Mariah’s implants. I do have to say she has managed to totally destroy one of them, and they will have to go back to the company for repair. But on a lighter note, we had a great day.
Today we went to the Riverbanks Zoo. I took my neice, and our 5 down to Columbia for the day. Not to far of a drive from here, and well worth it. I am not sure if I have ever been before, well I should say, I don’t remember ever going, but I think our kids will make sure we make plenty of trips back there. We all had such a great time. Mariah really enjoyed seeing new things. She has become very vocal now that she can hear, and today when she would see new things she would call out to them. I will have to post tomorrow each persons favorite, and a picture. But I can’t remember everyone’s favorite, and I am sure not going to call them back down out of bed just to post it. So here are a few pictures of us at the zoo.
Admission to the hospital????
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Thursday, 17 April 08 - 03:25 AM (GMT) By Amy Moore in General |
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Ok, no not really, we didn't go to the hospital, but I did think I was going to voluntarly admit myself to floor #7 aka psych ward! Why.....well, Mariah has found her ears. She can have them off her head and totally disasembled in less than 5 seconds!! That means in her mouth, magnets missing, and pieces everywhere. So, today I decided it was time to listen to her processors again for the second time today because she had one in her mouth. After listening, I could hear things going on in the rooms around us, but I heard a lot of static! LOTS. I knew then that Mariah's audiologist was going to get us to switch out her processors to her back ups. No problem, that would be no problem on a normal day. Today however, since we had been gone this weekend, they were not in the table where I keep them ALWAYS. They had not made it back up the stairs at all. Madison had put them on the table for me to take upstairs but Mackie thought it would be fun to play with the thousands of dollars processors! God provided them, but that is still a lot of money!!!!!! LOTS. So I went on the mad woman hunt to find them. Could not find them anywhere. Went to eat. Grounded the kids from life until we all found them. I went through everything in my house. I even tore sheets off my bed....ok, yes I know they would not be there, but it was one place I had not looked. I searched everywhere in the living room where they had been, but could not find them anywhere. I started feeling my throat get tight, and felt like I could not breathe. Now I have only had one panic attack, but I know that I know I was close to one. I went downstairs and pleaded with God please show me!! Just please. I am here alone taking care of my 5 kids, and I am loosing it! Really loosing it. I looked down on a toy, a walking toy....YES A TOY. And there wedged between the two parts, were the processors. I just had to sit down and take it easy for a little while. So, I did not have to send myself to the hospital, however it might be nice to have four padded walls for about a day!
Tomorrow we are off to the Zoo. Saturday Mark will be HOME....not until midnight, but HOME.
Here are a few pictures where I found the processors.
Friday night slumber party
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Tuesday, 15 April 08 - 04:24 PM (GMT) By Amy Moore in General |
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On Friday night the girls had a sleep over with one friend each. We have some friends that were moving into a new house. I had told them that I would keep all three of their kids while they moved all weekend....until I found out it would be the weekend that Mark would leave and be in Honduras. Needless to say, I did not think I could handle 8 kids alone. So, the boys went to her house to help in moving, and the girls came with me.
We had a great time together. By the end of it we were all exhausted. I got to catch up on some HGTV, and the girls played upstairs. Here are some pictures of Madison and Mallory being silly.
Incredible Day
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Saturday, 12 April 08 - 02:36 AM (GMT) By Amy Moore in Family |
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I have to admit you will notice that I will blog a lot more this week than most weeks. Mark is in Honduras for 8 days, so I try to update everyday so Mark can see what we have been doing. When he is gone, we try to plan our school field trips, to give us a little something to do rather than being in the house all day. Today we decided to go to Discovery place. Because we are memebers of the Nature Center in NC we are able to go there free. So, we started out this morning, yes all of us....5 kids. Really it is not that bad taking all of them out. They know how they are to behave when in public. We went to a couple of shows and got to pet a few weird creatures. After a long morning, I could tell Mariah was getting hungry. So, we went to the place on site to eat. I guess I could not read signs because I went in the out way. But....a really cool thing happened. It was defiently a God thing!!!! I was walking with my crew, and I heard my name called out. I tured to see a friend Michelle. Well, this is just not my ordinary friend, we have a very special bond. About this time last year Michelle and I met in Asheville to introduce ourselves in person. We had written on email for many months. I met her to see her little miracle boy Benjamin. Long story medium length, Benjamin is from Guatemala, and had the same foster mother that Mariah had. Honestly when I saw the two of them together, it was almost more than my heart could take. I thought I was really going to loose it in front of everyone eating. Little Benjamin was SO precious to Mariah (see photos below). Now I have to mention that Michelle does not live even close to Charlotte for us to run in to each other. I know God just put us together today! I needed it. Who would have thought two little ones that are from a different country that was raised for several months by a very precious lady, would run into each other in Charlotte. This was our little Discovery today!! What a blessing.
Happy Birthday!!!!
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Monday, 07 April 08 - 03:53 PM (GMT) By Amy Moore in General |
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Happy Birthday Mark!!!! Today is my wonderful husbands birthday! I am so thankful to have him as my partner in this journey called life!!! What a journey we have been on together. I would not trade it for anything in the world!
So.....Happy Birthday Mark! I love you!!!!
(Mark with our other daughter in Honduras. He is going to visit her on Friday!)
Article in the paper
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Sunday, 06 April 08 - 02:24 AM (GMT) By Amy Moore in Family |
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Mariahs story was in our paper. Here is a link to it....enjoy!
http://www.gastongazette.com/articles/amy_19029___article.html/mariah_mark.html
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