We’re another step closer to going home. We mostly had to
just wait through the day. Our tickets are for tomorrow and then we finally get
to make the last step to our final city of this China Tour.
D with a new friend, G barely visible up to left
We’re another step closer because we got LB’s passport
today! Now In Guangzhou we deal with the American side of things to make all
this copasetic (satisfactory) on that front.
Dancing on the street corner
We’re another step closer as we seem to finally have a break
through on the temper tantrums. Today he actually controlled himself enough
that we actually were able to let him have what he wanted. After that happened a
few times in a row, it seems like we may have progress on that front. Now it
doesn’t happen every time, but…
At breakfast at our hotel in Zhengzhou
We’re another step closer from fear of the water. I gave
him a bath the other day and he was really getting bothered by the rising water
(the whole inch I let it get to in the tub. Today we went to the pool and the larger
boys had a grand time. We went to a mostly empty hot tub with a remnant 4
inches of nice warm water in it. It was all I could do to get him to walk
around in it. After a while he started throwing one of his tantrums, but couldn’t
flop himself down as he likes since there was water there. He settled down
after a bit when G came over and pulled him down into his lap. I thought “uh
oh”, but after a few moments LB realized it wasn’t so bad, settled down, and
started putting his hands in the water. It wasn’t long before he was having a
grand time.
Looking the other way at the table
We’re another step closer to this family thing being a
little more real to LB. He now gets excited when I ask if he wants to talk to
Ma Ma (that’s the Chinese way of writing it in English characters) and he
starts heading for the computer. He also gave kisses out for the first time.
D got one first, and soon they were handed out to everyone, with a
flourish! He gives a cute little quasi pucker, gets you on the lips, and then pulls
away with a dramatic “Mwaaah!”
Taking great delight in putting his brother's clean underwear over his head
Finally, we’re another step closer to the day when he
hopefully will grasp what it meant for him to be adopted into our family, and then
hopefully understand even more what it means to be adopted as a son into God’s
family.
O, and there’s one thing I don’t think we’re one step closer
on, and that’s getting a translations any more accurate (or are they???)
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