"Both abundance and lack of abundance exist simultaneously in our lives as parallel realities. It is our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend...when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present- love, health, family, friends, work, joys of nature, and personal pursuits that bring us happiness- the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience heaven on earth."


Jun 13, 2010

Day 1 in Boise

I know I promised you more pictures, so here is our first day in Boise. For those of you who haven't heard yet, we are adopting a 5-year-old boy named Dillion (pronounced Dillon) and we met him for the first time this weekend. He's a sweet little boy with a bubbly personality. He and Halle are like two peas in a pod when they are together.

Our first stop was the zoo. We thought it would be fun to go feed the giraffes, but after the first giraffe swooped down with his tongue to steal Halle's lettuce, neither one would really get close. So here I am feeding the baby giraffe.
That little hand was as close as Dillion wanted to get it. Good thing the giraffe has a long tongue.
Most of the time, we just played on the toys, which was fine too.But they also wanted to feed the goats. Dillion was frustrated when the big goats would get the food when he was trying to give it to the little ones so Neal distracted them long enough to share.

Good job Dillion. You did it. It was scary for him at first, but once Halle started doing it, he realized it might be ok.

Dillion is pretty protective of Halle. She fell behind him getting up to the slide, so he held the line of kids up until she could come up and be next to him (they're the two at the front). I just noticed in the picture that the kid behind Halle was holding his arms up so no one ELSE could get through.

After our time at the zoo, we headed back to the hotel to go swimming. This was one of Dillion's first times swimming, so he was hesitant to get in at first. But he did finally get the hang of it and had fun in the water with us.
Note to self though - tomorrow we will get a floaty thing like Halle has because he's a lot heavier than her, even in the water.