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a heart for adoption skip to main skip to sidebar a heart for adoption he upholds the cause of the oppressed he sustains the fatherless and the widow psalm 146 7 9 tuesday june 16 2009 beginning summer eric is now home full time during the summer and i am working a little more which is good in some ways but i definitely miss cohen so much when i am working more we have been super busy as usual found this great place near our house that is a free water park thing as you can see in the picture only been once but the boys cohen and cousin houston loved it we took our first family trip together to gatlinburg and it was so much fun cohen was not too crazy about the rides we tried except for the carousel at dollywood but the place we stayed had an indoor waterpark which was really cool it was nice to get away and relax and just be together oh and the bears in the picture we saw real live wild bears that just came right up to our cabin kinda scary actually but really cool we had a new addition to the family with a k s second baby boy sloan i will get a picture on here sometime hopefully another playmate for cohen yay cohen also is loving playing with aubrynne when we get to see amy and bryan my brother and sister in law and their daughter and they are expecting another girl in october we are blessed with cousins around here he is growing like a weed and we are loving life with him i will say again how in love with him we are and what a blessing he is to us hope you all are having a great summer posted by mandy and eric at 7 49 pm 10 comments wednesday april 1 2009 lifebook today i went out into the garage to find a box sitting right in the middle of the floor it was addressed to eric but i opened it anyway inside the box i found a book called lifebooks creating a treasure for the adopted child i was soooo excited and realized eric had surprised me he said he knew how much i wanted to get started on cohen s lifebook but had no idea where to start it takes you through and shows you how to create a lifebook for cohen with ideas about how to explain certain situations that are specific to adoption to children and stuff like that i love it traditional baby books really are awful for us adoptive parents it asks a lot of questions that are not adoption friendly so this will be awesome to make him his very own book that tells his story from birth and then we can add to it as he grows i am so excited to make this for him to have as a link between his history and his life now and i just think it will be key in helping us familiarize him with so many ideas and to help him embrace his story i love so much that my sweet husband did this thoughtful thing for me but probably more for cohen i ll let you know how it goes posted by mandy and eric at 9 26 pm 6 comments thursday march 26 2009 first birthday party cohen s first birthday celebration was perfect it was a great day as you can see in the picture we had many people present to celebrate is first year of life with us there were many more behind them and it was just perfect not much more to say he was sick a few days before which was sad for him but he is feeling much better now the first picture is of cohen opening his gifts from e he opened them on his actual birthday and that was a very special time for us the highlight being a card from e to cohen very special words from her are cherished by us and will one day be cherished by cohen i am thankful to the great god for cohen bennet and for the year we have spent loving him and look forward to many years ahead of us he is such a joy every single day posted by mandy and eric at 8 50 pm 4 comments wednesday february 25 2009 my first haircut around noon today cohen got in the bath tub his hair well washed and conditioned combed out and ready for our big day at the barber we were ready when we got there he sat up straight in the chair like he d done it a hundred times before he loved touching the clippers and feeling the vibration on his skin he didn t budge while jonte the barber began we did have to resort to some goldfish when we were near the end but overall he did great and sat almost perfectly still unbelievable that this busy little boy could sit that still as the hair came off i really began to realize that this was going to make me sad hadn t thought much about it before right at that moment but as his appearance began to change my heart grew very sentimental all i could think was that my baby is gone he is growing up so so fast i can t stand it karen i almost cried when we left and i was in the car and looked back at him but i managed to hold it together i guess i need to start bringing that tobagon along when we leave the house now as he was working jonte said that cohen now needed a barber name so he gave him the name cheeks for when he is there seeing him and getting his hair cut isn t that awesome he has a barber shop name anyways as you can see below we did some before and after which do you like best posted by mandy and eric at 8 30 pm 173 comments tuesday february 24 2009 a tribute to the afro after 11 months of much enjoyment of cohen s hair the time has come to say goodbye we are sad at our house tonight but i must admit a little excited at the thought of much less time spent with the afro pic and detanglers of many kinds tomorrow will be our first trip to the barber which i will post pics of for sure just for added sentiment i wanted to share with you all some memories of our little man s hair growing experience wikepedia definition of afro an afro sometimes called a natural or shortened to fro is a hairstyle in which the hair extends out from the head like a halo cloud or ball this may or may not include wearing s uch afros long to several times the diameter of the head an afro requires very curly hair i ll never forget that first day in the hospital as we admired him through the nursery glass and the nurse pulled his cap off whoa look at that hair newborn one week old at 2 months old at 3 months old at 5 months old at 9 months old tonight at 11 months old the lopsided afro which is frequent at our house and the very good reason to rid our son of his afro his cousin loves to grab and pull we will miss you little afro although some how i feel we have not seen the end of you yet posted by mandy and eric at 7 40 pm 2 comments wednesday february 18 2009 okay if anyone still checks in on this blog despite the fact that it has literally been months sense i last posted anything i need help how on earth do you make your blog designs i want to do something different with the template or whatever but i am not computer or internet savvy and am wondering what to do anybody got any suggestions so our first christmas as a family of 3 was fantastic not much to say other than just that it was great to spend time with family and celebrate jesus s birth cohen is 11 months in about 2 days from now he started walking 5 days after he was 10 months and seriously he just took off like he d been walking for years he is getting pretty good at it now almost able to run at times closely followed by a crash i am pleased to report no illness for the little guy no runny noses no cough just great health wise i was beginning to wonder if he was gonna have a permenant running nose yuck but no nose sucker no raw upper lip from tissue wiping no coughing in the night and we are just so thankful for our health over the past few months hmmm what else i think he said dog today and we think he is calling my inlaws dog jack which is his name although it is not completely clear i am finding it totally amazing how much a child changes daily i just will look around and find him doing things that i didn t know he could do its a beautiful wonderful thing to watch and be a part of we went to our first hockey game last week he sat mesmerized by the noise lights and players he absolutely loved it and looked too cute in his preds sweatshirt here are some new and not so new loves of cohen s his daddy attached at the hip literally he is so obsessed with eric that today he was hugging kissing and smelling eric s coat that was hanging on the back of the kitchen chair man he loves his daddy food any food period baby food big people food dog food no just kidding but really he loves to eat and gets really excited and kicks he legs and dances when he eats which leads me to dancing one day in pier 1 i was holding him and kinda dancing to the music its kinda loud in there and he was dancing bouncing up and down in my arms i guess i started kinda bobbing my head sideways and so since then that is his new move that he loves to show off sideways head bobbing its too cute books he has just started really liking to turn pages in books and really loves it these days outside today beautiful day we went outside to eat lunch and see riley our boxer and after like an hour of being out there we come in and he sits at the door and cries because he wants to go back out oh my goodness he is only 11 months old and all boy and our dog riley leads me to dogs as i said earlier he is saying dog and calling the inlaws dog by his name and he has a book with different dogs in it and he kisses each dog as we read he yells at dogs when he sees them kids he also yells in his own sweet way at other kids when he sees his cousins houston or aubrynne he gets so excited and starts kinda hollaring at them and kisses them he plays so well with kids and it is so awesome to watch him interact with other children his age so so awesome okay enough of the list he is just such a joy to eric and i and we are so in love with him sorry it s been a while will definitely try and do better for anyone who still reads posted by mandy and eric at 7 36 pm 10 comments tuesday december 9 2008 adoption birthday cohen bennett is now officially a moore yesterday was a wonderful day we legally finalized cohen s adoption into our family the judge was so kind having us introduce all the people that were there to support and witness this day he then allowed us all to take pictures with him it couldn t have gone better although it was an important day we will never forget and tell cohen about for years it didn t feel like any weight off our shoulders or like something huge had been accomplished excited to be reminded of the gift we ve been given we enjoyed it but the feeling of the day to me felt like a formality and not truly a finalizing of his place in our family i am glad it felt that way i am glad i didn t feel like whew we made it as if i was fearing a different outcome he is ours always has been and we are so in love with him last night i was watching tv and on the show a little girl was sick and needing surgery while the parents stood there looking at their little girl unsure of what would happen with her health i began to think of cohen and not morbidly like what if something happens to him but something just got my mind off on a thought of how deeply connected i feel to him and how that he has just rocked me to the core in terms of love i guess that s just the feeling of being a mom i went into his room with tears just streaming down my face and prayed for him and for eric and i and for every person that teaches or has influence on him i am so glad that i can feel this kind of love it is different than a romantic love or a friendship love it is amazing and i am just so so thankful for cohen and to god for doing what is quite obviously his workmanship on sunday we dedicated cohen at church and the picture with the green overall type outfit is from that day my talented mother made that outfit for him and she made his brown pants he is wearing in the other pictures isn t she great as i said in the last post cohen is all over the place now he does an army crawl but just in the last 2 days he has really gotten good and crawling on his hands and knees he is saying all kinds of new sounds and loves to echo our sounds i frequently find him standing in his bed hollaring for me to come and get him after a nap not mad just like he is saying hey mom i am awake too cute i love this stage he is in posted by mandy and eric at 7 08 am 9 comments older posts home subscribe to posts atom a heart for adoption he upholds the cause of the oppressed he sustains the fatherless and the widow psalm 146 7 9 the moores mandy and eric a hopeful couple in desperate need of god who are on an amazing god sized journey to adopt their first child view my complete profile blogroll lori wescott courtney emily culture watch katie in samoa bethany christian services hope for orphans laurie shaohannah s hope blog archive 2009 6 june 1 beginning summer april 1 march 1 february 3 2008 37 december 2 november 1 september 1 august 4 july 3 june 4 may 1 april 3 march 12 february 2 january 4 2007 28 december 7 november 3 october 7 september 9 august 2