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Dear Friends and Family,

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Michael and I have thought long and hard about this decision. On August 13th, we decided to adopt twins from Germany! Airiella Burgen and Christopher James have become a part of our happy family! Airellia has black hair and deep, brown eyes, and Christopher has dark brown hair with very light brown eyes. Both were born on March 20th. They are almost 6 months old! Alysha and Kristin love to play with Christopher and Airellia very much! Donovan, however, has been really shy. He misses his sisters a lot because they always go play with Chris and Airellia more often now. Michael and I are just hoping that Donovan opens up more to them.

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While all of this is going on, we decided to adopt a kitten for the children to play with. She is a beautiful Manecoon named Mistique! Donovan loves Mistique the most, I would say, because he's too shy to open up to the new twins. Hopefully, he'll grow out of this.

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Donovan is now in first grade! He is learning basic addition and subtraction right now, and he's really good at it, too! His hair is getting longer, too. His hair is growing into a little bowl cut a little past his ears. I'm in shock with how fast it's growing...I guess he got that from me! :)

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We'll send you some pictures shortly!

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Love always,
Heather, Michael,
Donovan, Alysha, Kristin,
Airellia, Chris