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Thank you for these wonderful kids. A year has passed since we have adopted them and everyone is doing pretty good.

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Joey has joined a football team and has started taking guitar lessons. He is quite good as both. Joe has also visited his parents a couple times and he talks on the phone with them about a couple times a week.

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Mary has grown so much in the past year. She is a sweet adorable baby, who has already learned how to walk and knows a couple of words. The older siblings love to play with little Mary. When Mary is older we are going to let her meet her biological mother.

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Gilad picked up English quite quickly although, he still needs help with it sometimes. He still enjoys watching tv and reading. He talks on the phone with his grandmother every couple of weeks and is going to go visit her in a month. We have let Gilad keep his religion and we have also learned more about Judism.

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Uzai picked up English even faster than his older brother did. He is still shy, but not as much as he was when he first came to us. He is very happy to have two cats and we are probably going to get him his very own cat soon. He has also talks to his grandmother every couple of weeks and is going to go visit her in Israel in about a month.

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Patti has also adjusted well. We have signed her up for art classes and she loves them. She is also getting pretty good at drawing and painting. She has seen her parents a few times over the year and sometimes talks on the phone with them. She loves having so many brothers and sisters now.

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Kaitlyn gave birth to a beautiful baby boy, who she named Caden Michael about five months ago. She is a great mother, but she is still in school, which is important since she wants to get a good job one day so she can give Caden the best life possible.

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Thank you for these six wonderful children. We look forward to adopting from you in the future.