Another Milestone

It seemed like each time we brought our boys home they were reaching milestone after milestone on a regular basis.  Their first year home, especially, seemed to be full of "firsts".  When Travis was baptised it seemed as if the rest of his sacraments were far, far into the future.  Well, yesterday one of those days arrived. Travis made his first Reconciliation, or Confession.  He has been preparing for this day for the last month. We are so proud of him!  He memorized the Act of Contrition in record time. I was impressed. When he first brought the prayer home I thought to myself, oh no, what if he can't do this?? Silly me. I should never underestimate Travis. He worked so hard on it every day for weeks.  Pronouncing the word "penance" was tricky but he finally got it in the end.  Here he is on his special day in front of our church.

He wanted one with dad....

 and then with mom too!

 After he was done with his confession and penance he got to write his name on a little lamb and add it to this quilt that hangs in the church.  Every child that has made their first Reconciliation in our church has their name on here. I wonder how big it will be by the time Connor gets here??!

 I couldn't get the whole thing, but here is most of it. Pretty cool to see all of those names on there!

 I was finally able to get a close up of Travis' little lamb.

 All done!  He did such a great job, he really is growing up!

 Grammy and Grandpa came to support him too, which was so nice of them!

 In other happenings around here..... Blue continues to make himself at home.  Travis has been letting him play in his batman cave. Blue seems to like it!

 Travis likes to cuddle him up in a towel. It is actually easier to keep him still this way.

 Last night, just before bed, Blue made his first escape.  The story is that Travis was putting him back in  his cage, Blue scratched him, Travis dropped him, then Blue ran under Travis' dresser. After an hour of coaxing and prodding to get him out Daryle and Travis decided to go to bed.  Finally, this morning, they rescued him.  The fun of owning a guinea pig! Yesterday he had lots of fun though ... playing in the bat cave, flying on a fighter jet and cruising around in a garbage truck.  Maybe it was too much excitement?! 

Here is Blue waving good-bye!  Let's hope we don't have any more escaping for awhile now!