Meeting Isaak and Jakob...

This past weekend we were able to travel to Philadelphia and meet Isaak and Jakob. They are twins that were abandoned in the DR and Brian's sister, Sharla, has been taking care of them the past 3 plus years. Because of the Haiti earthquake she was allowed to bring them to the states on February 11th. Sharla is now able to do all of her non-profit work in Austin, TX while the twins are able to take advantage of all the opportunities here in the US. Isaak is deaf and so he is now able to be in a deaf school. We all met up at Brian's parent's home for a fun weekend.
GrandDad took us to the Adventure Aquarium and we loved it. Went through the entire place twice in fact. Lindsey was a big help with Isaak and Jakob and they sure seemed to enjoy her as well.
Here is Reece petting a shark.





I was trying to get a picture of all 5 kids and didn't know if I'd be able to get them all to cooperate. Well..as you can see the kids did great - it's the GrandDad we had 'issues' with. :)
The animals were amazing, but the workers were just as fascinating to the kids. Here is Lindsey watching a scuba diver cleaning the glass.


Back at the grandparents, we went on an Easter egg hunt.
Isaak wanted to open each egg immediately and didn't quite get the fact that he would have so much more if he just kept searching for eggs. Gotta love a 4 year old and 'immediate gratification'.

These next two pictures are so funny to me, because the kids were in their p.j.'s and settling in to watch a movie. Jakob saw my camera and kept asking me to take a picture of him. Obviously the others didn't even notice me in the room.

All the kids together for some pictures.
Here's Sharla standing behind the photographer using sign language to get Isaak to smile.
Sharla, Isaak, and Jakob....