Today! And last week, we GOT IT! Our consent
to adoption from our agency! That means....... we go to court soon to
finalize Wiggly's adoption. THAT means we get to be his official
parents FOREVER! THAT means Wiggly gets to be officially OUR SON,
FOREVER! THAT means he gets to be a US citizen. And THAT means we
have to deal with USCIS one more time for one more paper work for
Wiggly. But that's another story.
I thought of jotting down some of our firsts and joys with Mr Wiggly before we forgot all of them so here goes:
he holds out his hands to be held when we say let's
pray (before meals)
he squints his eyes for a second or two and peeps out
of them when we say let's pray (one of these days I'm gonna get that
on camera)
he has now perfected the act of saying please - he
claps his hands and smiles really big... how can anyone refuse that?
before when things got quiet, I would find him into
cabinets and no-no stuff. Now, when things go quiet, I find him in
his book corner, paging through a book or so
just recently, he pulled me close to him and gave me
such a huge hug! With a smile on his face of course!
when we ask for "lovins," he opens his
mouth and gives us a french kiss! Ha! He has been doing this for a
few months now. It used to be we would say bohpoh (Korean for kiss)
and he'd french kiss us. But now he understands lovins and kiss in
English
his receptive language just has gotten so much
better. One day, I was sort of talking to myself wondering where his
bib was. He turned around and walked away and came back to me
bringing his bib over! And here I was getting ready to put on my
stern, tough voice because he didn't come to me when I said "come
here!"
the other day, I told him to go brush his teeth and
he RAN over to the bathroom where we brush his teeth! Seriously! That
about floored myself and UD!
it is a little bit of work getting his teeth brushed
but he tolerates it only to be able to play with his
Debrox bottle (earwax softener)
seriously this guy loves the softener! He takes it
with a smile - more like a laugh. He is hilarious!
We are still waiting on vocabulary explosion, but we
are definitely hearing more English words from him like: clap,
peekaboo, choo-choo, tchu for “shoes,” boo
for “ball,” and,
what sounds like Amen,
he is very much into sounds – animal sounds and now
trying to sound out “vroom,” and “tick tock”
he now points to his nose, ears, cheeks and feet when
asked, and raises his hands when you ask him where his hands are
he loves going to story time at the library. He stays
mostly quiet and just observes at story time but then comes home and
does the actions to the songs we've learned. The last two times we
went to the library, he could not wait to get inside the story room.
He runs to the door, looks back at me, and beckons with his hand and
says “hee-hee” for “here”
he “sings” to himself after I start the song off.
Trying to guess what song he wants sung is a little tricky but I
manage
We've had our “first snow” with him and boy was
it a revelation! He ran back and forth between our patio door and his
bedroom to look through the window, clapping and jabbering away. So I
had to take him outside to enjoy it. I opened the garage door, he
paused for a second or two just looking, then ran out and held out
his hands trying to catch the snowflakes. It was just so stinking
cute! I don't have that on film unfortunately. Had to make sure he
didn't run out to the road without me. Priorities have definitely
changed in this neck of the woods.
he loves jumping on the trampoline – mostly on
cousin J.'s shoulders or held by him.
We've had our first thanksgiving with Wiggly. He did
really well and I was just blessed surrounded with family. He also
played on real drums for the first time ever, this Thanksgiving. That
was a sight to see thanks to UJ!
he LOVES Elmo. Part of that may be that, Elmo is what
I normally borrow for him because it has a lot of singing. He's not
entertained with “movies” without singing.
And for the priceless moment: Wiggly came home with
an Elmo balloon the other night – no occasion really.
Just a Daddy and son moment.
We are just so thankful for this bundle of Wiggliness!
AC
