Questions/Observations.

1) Writing your feelings on paper is very therapeutic... but putting the papers on a box and burying them? I'm not saying it makes no sense. It could be a ritual or symbolize something, but the GREENS don't even say why.

2) One of the papers said that TIMOTHY was going to have the same kind of humour UNCLE BUB has. We only see him joking once and he does it with UNCLE BUB .

3) The rest of the family seem a little surprised at TIMOTHY during that lunch and... that's it. They don't really question why they didn't know about the "adoption" until that moment. And nobody else seems surprised. Actually, do CINDY & JIM have any friends? I don't remember seeing if they had.

4) Don't JONI's parents find out that TIMOTHY kicked her? Why didn't they do anything?

5) When TIMOTHY tells his parents that he kicked JONI in her face, they ask why. He says she tried to take his socks off and the conversation becomes about that. They don't ask him if he at least apologized. He doesn't, by the way. JONI shows him her birth mark and immediately starts acting friendly. Oh, and why was she then introduced as an entirely different person (she allowed him to keep getting bullied by putting a cherry on his head; he tricked him into looking at his feet)?

5) Halfway through the movie, the adoption counselor tells the GREENS that their time is up. They insist on finishing the story and she replies "OK. It's your time". Isn't also yours, lady? Don't you have other things to do?

6) How does TIMOTHY having leaves on his feet prove that his parents came up with the new pencil? They don't even check if they're glued. I know that FRANKLIN didn't know how to answer the question, but that's no prove.

7) The ending is terrible! TIMOTHY was some kind of test for CINDY & JIM?! His life as an individual was meaningless?! Whatever magical source it was that created him wanted them to bond only to take that bond away through the worst thing a person can go through (the death of a son or daughter)?! And a test for what?! To realize what they had to improve on?! Parents get better by making mistakes! They don't need a practice dummy before a real kid; they need a real kid from the start!