The many names of...

So many of you at home know our newest addition as "Gideon"...and this is what he will be called once everything is finalized and we are all in the US together as a family. What's funny is that to just about everyone who has known him here, he is "Moses". This is the name he was given at the Babies Home (LHBH) when he first arrived. Unlike many of the children there, he has been there from the beginning of his life--probably at a day old or less. He came to LHBH because he was found under some bushes near a police station. A "good samaritan" discovered him, turned him in to the station, and the authorities turned him over to LHBH. You can see the similarities between our "Moses" and the biblical Moses.

We'll probably tell that story again at a later time but about the name... So now, anytime we are around anyone who has known our guy for any amount of time, he is Moses. For us and the other families we are staying with, and anyone who asks, he is Gideon. I actually came up with the name G-Mo because I said that he had an identity crisis. This didn't help because now we also call him G-Mo from time to time...it's become a joke!

REGARDLESS, our GIDEON (Moses/G-Mo) is precious and he'll know his name soon enough!

By the way, say a prayer for Mary. Her flight just left Uganda and in about 30 hours, she'll be back in S'port! Of course, then she'll be a "single" mother to our boys back home and I'll be a "single" dad to Gideon here. Praying for the day when we are all under the same roof!