Martha was only 5 years old here, and she still had her silver teeth. When they finally fell out, and a new, white tooth appeared, she said, "Oh mom, I didn't know I would have white teeth. Isn't it beautiful? I thought my teeth would come in silver." She also still had her leg braces. Janice was about 7 months old in this picture. She has little tubes in her nose, called "stents." They were there to try to keep her nasal passages open. She already had an encephalacele pushed back into her brain which had been in her nasal area. And...she still didn't have her cleft lip and palate repaired, but isn't she an absolute doll anyway? I just love this picture.
Evening Prayer.
OR maybe I should call this:
"See No Evil, Think No Evil, Speak No Evil, Smell No Evil." Rita, Roger, Charles (my grandson), and Marc trying to fold their hands and pray. Poor Roger, never could get those hands right, ha, ha. December, 1997.
Here is a typical picture of me, mom to all these kids. I go by adoptn on the internet. My face is always red, so don't ask me where I received the bad sunburn. Sometimes I just say I've been skiing in Colorado, that is more impressive than saying, "I just have a skin problem." Oh well, my family is used to it by now. Roger is snuggling up to me.
This is one of the most, if not the only, most loving, most patient, and most wonderful husbands in the world!! He is holding our 5 month old daughter, Rita.
Here is another picture of me/Mom. My brother took it up in the mountains, at what used to be my folks' "mountain house." Janice was a bit chilly at first, so had her hat on, but soon she was playing in the spring water. This was taken in 1996 I think.
