Oh, happy chaos!

Lena, Morgan, and Parker seem to be getting along just fine... Morgan dressed up as "Little Lena" complete with her cell phone and sunglasses. Parker got in on the dress-up fun also just after this photo.





Lena has been soooo wonderful with the girls. She is very patient and loving, plays and reads with them, and does lots of snuggling.





(I tried to get a nice photo with my new "daughter" but look who snuck into this photo.)

The funniest thing is the relationship between Luke and Lena (hey, that almost sounds like "Luke and Leia"... cool, maybe she won't notice if we start calling her that!)... Oh, sorry... those two are so hysterical together! The teasing and loving little "jabs" at each other make me know she really is a part of the family already. She's the big sister he never had- and he really needs someone to boss him around sometimes! Jalen loves to watch those two go at it!


Great father/daughter shot!



Won Kun and Lena have done quite well together, too. They've hosted several little get-together/parties as they share many of the same friends.

It has been a *very* busy time for us with four teens, a tween, and a little princess. We have one in drama, two in basketball, two in power lifting, two in Life Teen, and six with rich social lives! We have put a lot of miles on the family "bus" recently but have even enjoyed just driving all of the kids to different events, often multiple trips a day. Some of the best conversations happen trapped in the car together. :-)

A word that keeps coming to mind lately is "chaos"... but not the kind of chaos that's in John and Luke's current favorite movie, "Dark Knight"!! This has been what John and I call our "happy chaos." There are times I am mentally counting kids to make sure I know where they all are, who's in charge of them, and how they each are getting back home, or buying snacks to have 2-10 more kids over for the evening, or talking around the dinner table for a long time about anything and everything, and I am enjoying this time in our lives more than any other. I am more often ditching other responsibilities temporarily to take time to enjoy my hubby and each of the kids in different ways and I'm starting to look at ways to ditch some responsibilities altogether. I see how fast time is flying and it's definately got me thinking...

Thanks for reading!
Kelli