What we've been up to...

Things are going well here at the Busby house. Mercy is adjusting beautifully and so is everyone else. We're enjoying lots of lazy days as a family before school starts. It’s amazing how God orchestrates everything and chose for us a child that lived on the other side of the world, yet fits so perfectly into our family. It simply amazes me.

It gets a little rowdy and I love every minute of it! 

She still likes the booster seat and her car seat. Amazing! She thinks the stroller is cool. She is fascinated by remote controls. She’d never really seen one before since we did not have a TV in Uganda. She’s quickly figured it out and stood for about 5 minutes tonight pointing the Wii remote at the TV with her hand on her hip, quite upset that it was not doing anything to change the channel for her. She got pretty jealous earlier in the week that she didn’t have a bicycle like her sisters. So we took care of that and she is rocking a cool Dora tricycle. She can’t quite reach the pedals, but she doesn’t seem to care. We also picked up a potty for her. I’m not really going full-force on potty training until school starts, but she’s already used it a couple of times. Avery has made it her personal mission to get her to go on it. It’s pretty funny to watch. And she loves going to the pool, which is great since it’s been over 100 degrees every day since we’ve been home. I have to be careful to not even say the word “pool” in front of her unless we have plans to go there, or I will continually hear, “Go pool, go pool!”

There is almost the exact same age difference between Emma and Avery as there is between Avery and Mercy. This makes for some great déjà vu moments. The other night in the car Mercy was singing (very loudly). Avery was tired and wanted to rest. She asked Mercy to please stop. Mercy just got louder. Then she said, “Stop the singing!” Emma, who was quietly reading in the back seat, said, “Welcome to my world, Avery!”. Too funny and so true.


Face Painting at VBS Family Night

A couple of weekends ago we made a trip down to Oklahoma to introduce Mercy to the Busbys. We had such a good time. Mercy jumped right in and had a great time with her cousins. And this is the first family photo taken with all of Cody’s family in ages. Of course when you are dealing with Busbys it’s virtually impossible to get a photo of everyone behaving themselves, but that is the fun of our precious family.

Chilling with one of her cousin's iPods

The Busby Bunch

Mercy had her first doctor’s appointment on Thursday. The doctor said she looks great. She is even in the 40% for height and 15% for weight, which is pretty phenomenal for a girl who was not even on the charts a year ago. She’s had virtually no immunizations, so she has a long way to go to catch up. Poor thing got six shots and a blood draw, but she took it all in stride.

I apologize for not having more pictures. My camera has issues and so does my phone. I think God is laughing at my desire to get back to America to the comforts of life. Since I’ve been home, our internet has been going off and on, which also means our home phone has been off and on. Then the other day, I thought we had TV issues because our satellite wouldn’t work. Turns out Mercy had unplugged the receiving unit. By the way, it’s a bit embarrassing when you call customer service only to find out something is unplugged. Then I dropped my phone in the toilet, so I’ve been without a cell phone for two days. It’s now somewhat operational, but only half of the keyboard works, so don’t expect any texts from me, at least not any that make sense.