The Silcock Family Newsletter

March 2008

 

Hello again!  Well we got through the holidays in one piece.  There is always a lot going on for us during the months of November and December, especially this year!  Between special school activities, holiday parties and two new children joining our family in the middle of December, we were pretty exhausted!  We enjoyed our traditional Thanksgiving at Knott's Berry Farm.  With all of the family there plus many friends and extended family we had a big Thanksgiving brunch at Mrs. Knott's restaurant then we spent the day at the Knott's enjoying the amusement park.  The boys also had a fabulous Christmas thanks to some very generous people in our community who went over and above to provide the boys with some extra special Christmas gifts and holiday activities! 

 

We are happy to announce that Parker, Patrick, and Carlos finally joined our family!  Patrick and Parker have proven to be excellent additions to our family.  The boys are 11-year old identical twins who were previously living in the Los Angeles area.  Both boys are super loving with big personalities.  Patrick loves going to school, especially riding the bus.  After school Patrick likes hanging out at the Discovery Science Center or the Santa Ana Zoo.  Parker loves going to the movies and to Legoland.  Both boys love exploring their environment.  Since they spent most of their lives in a sub-acute nursing home setting they have had very little chance to get out in the community before joining our family.  At four years old, Carlos in now our youngest son.  Carlos is a sweet little boy who is adjusting very well to having lots of older brothers.  Carlos loves going to park and to Chuck-E-Cheese.  He is attending special education preschool at our local elementary school.  We are excited to be parenting these wonderful boys, all three are awesome and perfect matches for our family!

 

By the next family update we hope to be able to write about Daniel's adoption finalization.  We will be signing adoptive placement paperwork later in the month and should get assigned a court date shortly thereafter.  Also Yanny's adoptive placement paperwork will be signed this month as well.  We will all be very happy to get these two adoptions finalized.  Both boys have been part of our family for a long time and having that final paperwork making their membership in the family legal will be a giant sigh of relief.  We are also ready to do the read options with Sergei and Alex Daniel who were originally adopted from Russia several years ago.

 

In the mean time, between our everyday activities I am filing out tons of summer camp forms.  This is a very time consuming job and will probably be the focus of my free time over the next couple of months.  All of the boys have at least one camp experience each summer.  They attend camp programs across the state with many of the camp programs specializing in such areas as water sports, acting, science, music, film making, sports and the like.  We make every effort for the boys to attend summer camp programs with their typical peers.  Of course in order to do this, and for the boys to have a fun and successful experience at camp, a lot goes into preparing the camp staff for our boys' unique needs and preparing the boys for the rules and culture of summer camp!  Hopefully by the end of summer we will have lots of pictures to share on the web site. 

 

Finally our second CD called "Team Silcock" is finished.  We will be adding some sound bytes from "Team Silcock" to the web site soon.  If you are interested in purchasing the CD you may go to the following web site link to find both of the Silcock Family CDs :  CD Baby: Search results for “silcock family”   Our family is very proud of this new CD which is full of songs written by the boys and sung by our friend, Dave Nachmanoff.  A few of the songs on this CD are even sung by the boys.  Compare this new CD to our first CD, I think you we see some real growth in the boys' song writing skills.    

 

Anyway, thanks for checking in and I hope to write more in a few months!

 

Ann