The Silcock Family Newsletter

November 2006

 

 

Well its been a long time since we wrote a newsletter.  We have been trying to keep up with the boys pages as much as possible but completely neglected to keep up with the family updates!   We hope you have enjoyed the updates on the boys in the mean time!

 

This year has been a busy one for sure!  Jim spent much of 2006 in the hospital recovering from a very serious pressure sore.  Ann made sure that the boys visited almost daily and during those visits, Jim spent much of the time helping the boys with their homework.  It was important for both Jim and the boys to maintain consistent contact.  Everyone is very happy that Jim is finally home now, just in time for the holidays.

 

We are all getting ready for the holidays.  Thanksgiving will be our traditional buffet brunch at Mrs. Knott's in the morning followed by a day at Knott's Berry Farm.  We have spent Thanksgiving at the park for eight years in a row.  It is a wonderful opportunity for our whole family to get together with our friends and extended family members.  Traditionally, we have several of the boy's biological family members, former foster parents, social workers, teachers, and family helpers attend.  This makes for a very large party of generally over 100 people!  The boys look forward to this event.  Throughout the year, we spend a lot of time practicing eating buffet style at our local Soup Plantation!  By the time Thanksgiving comes around, most of the boys are experts at the buffet line!

 

The boys are looking forward to Christmas as usual.  The older boys are having a blast decorating the house..  Nikolai, Phillip, Ivan and Michael have spent days putting up Christmas lights outside the house.  With all of the lights, the astronauts will defiantly be able to see our house from space!

 

We are also very excited to announce that, baring any unforeseen delays, we will be finalizing Marc's adoption in January 2007 and Max's adoption in February 2007.  Michael and James' adoption should also be finalized in the beginning of 2007.  We also hope to have our son Alexander home permanently before the new year. Due to court orders of confidentiality, we will not be able to have Max or Alexander's pages back on the site until their adoptions are finalized. 

 

We also getting close to releasing our second CD, "Team Silcock."  We had hoped to complete everything before the holidays but we were overwhelmed with Jim's hospitalization, Justin's kidney transplant, and most recently our consumer, Jose's, unexpected stay in ICU.  We will get back to this project after the new year and possibly see a release date of April 2007.  By the way on this CD the kids not only wrote all of the songs, but also sang and played instruments on a few.  There are some sample songs on the web site.  The latest songs are very cool! 

 

More in 2007!

 

Ann

Ann@Allourboys.com