Isaiah's 1st Photo Shoot

He is an All American Boy!



And brother Joey's 5 year pictures...



And our "brother's forever" pictures...




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Exciting Weekend...Buddy Walk, Baptism, 1 month anniversary of being home!

September 18, 2010. The past few years our Buddy Walk team name has been "Joey's Army" but this year we needed a new name. I wanted to hopefully still get use out of our camo t-shirts so a friend came up with the name of "Becker Boys Battalion". Joey and Isaiah had lots of buddies join them for their day.






Sunday, Sept. 19, 2010. Isaiah's Baptism.

Becker Brothers. This was the first group brother picture since Isaiah being home. For a second I thought there was a neighbor kid here when I saw how full the couch was. It's ALL good though. Noah and Austin are usually fighting over Isaiah and one made the comment that this is why we should have adopted two. I said one can have Joey but Joey isn't too in to cuddling these days...only on his time.


Godparents are Jim & Jackie Bitz.

Fr. Ross...our parish priest at St. Philip Neri Catholic Church.

Isaiah's own personalized blanket as a gift from our parish.
I would guess Isaiah is very pleased and happy with his special day. He did great. We bought his baptismal outfit in Nikolaev, Ukraine...his "old" hometown.

ONE MONTH UPDATE. Isaiah's personality has really changed from how I remember him in the orphanage. We hardly ever heard him laugh and now he laughs so easily. I've been working on him keeping his fingers/thumbs out of his mouth and he is on day 4 of finally sucking on a pacifer. He is even trying to put it in his mouth by himself...he is getting close. At night though if I don't have his hands covered he uses his thumbs. Since he no longer spends most of the day with his hands in his mouth he has finally taken interest in playing with toys! This is a huge treat to me as I thought he would have to learn from the beginning like a baby. He loves the music toys the best. He also has decided that he needs to be where the action is...if someone is playing a game on the floor he will be there shortly (or fast, depending how which form of crawl he chooses). He knows how the regular crawl works but doesn't always use it. He's been watching Barney and Signing Times with Joey and he seems to like it. I have a feeling Joey would tell him "too bad" if he didn't like it. The last couple days he's been following Joey around in the living room exploring as he goes. It is so awesome to watch this little boy who once was confined to his toyless wooden pens.

Some days (meals) when I think he is getting better with screaming after his food is gone then it gets worse again. He will bang his head on the back of highchair but as soon as I wash him up and take him out he is so happy again. I don't give in to giving him more food as he had plenty for the little tike he is.

Bathtime is a favorite. There are those times where the bath just has to be short and boy does he get angry! Thankfully he gets over it fast. When I take him in the bathroom and start running the water he gets so excited and crawls over to the tub and tries his darndest to pull to a stand by the tub...he always succeeds. He also tries his darndest to get in but thankfully he is too short yet.

This week Isaiah will be having his first well baby checkup and lots of bloodwork and some x-rays. Please say some prayers for all to go well. His brother Joey will also have some of the routine testing done too. He could use some prayers also.

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