Sophie's friend

Many of you know Derius.  He's lived with us off and on since his sophomore year of high school (he will be 21 in a couple of weeks...yikes!).  While there were some rough times during that time, he has definitely become an important part of our family.  He now comes and stays us with every once in awhile and we've been helping figure out money, school, job, etc as much as we can.  We are SO proud of the man he is becoming.  Our kids adore him (well, Jackson likes everyone, but whatever).  Sophie tells us often, "Derius is my friend."  She asks about him...wants to know where he is, if he's coming by, if he's staying over...  It's really cute and I think the feeling is mutual (:  I was able to grab this picture the other night while Derius was eating some dinner and Sophie was having her snack.  He kept trying to take her goldfish and they were having too much fun.