Day 653. Last night I was so exhausted, I made it to bed by 12:30 am. The past few days have been really intense for the little ones, and so it was 8:30 before I opened my eyes. Emmy was the only one I was hearing. They were all awake, though, and slowly came out of bed.

Day 652. Last night the kids went to bed at 9 pm, and I had so many pictures from our trip, it ended up being 2:30 before I got to go to bed. As you can imagine, I was very tired today. But so were the kids. We got up at 8:15 today, so later than usually, and Emmy was the only one I was hearing.

Day 651. Today they are a year and 7 months old biologically. Last night I went to bed at 12:30 am, and this morning we got up around 8 as usual. After breakfast, I took them downstairs where we worshipped God and prayed and then read Bible stories.