Going Home - Trip #1

We are going home tomorrow. We are going to miss Andrew terribly. We will visit him again this morning and it will be the last time we will see him for a while. Our translator was with us yesterday so we were able to give the caretakers our photo album & his favorite toy and explain to them that we were leaving for a few weeks. They will show him the pictures while we are gone and let him know that we are coming back. We hope to have court in 3 weeks or so but we won’t know a date for a while. Due to Andrew’s small size, the surgery he had as an infant, and the fact that he has bonded so well, our coordinator is hoping that the court will show mercy and give us a date quickly. We have fulfilled the Kaz requirements but there are always new hurdles here and there.

Andrew has become more independent and communicative. He doesn’t talk per se but he does let us know what he wants. He pulls us in the direction that he wants to see when we walk with him. He played with a stick today and thoroughly enjoyed himself. We did not see this side of him the first week here. He has become an active and happy boy. We can’t wait to see more of his personality when we get him home.

Speaking of home - It will be nice to sleep in our own beds, eat food that we can read the labels on, dry our clothes in an electric dryer, walk barefoot in the grass, drive our cars, speak English with most everyone around us, and just a variety of things I have taken for granted.

Paka for now…