I have our son! It was a wonderful meeting. His face lit up when he saw me! He was so happy and excited. Someone told him Stephi and I are twins and he said "I know I know! They look just like in the picture!" He also recognized Marks picture and I said "i know Baba!" and pointed at it. He had with his the photo album, toy car, and blanket we had sent. I took another album with me and also some pics we took the day you left. He loved comparing all the pictures of everyone -especially Digger! He has been a bundle of energy. I took toy Thomas trains for him to play with and a Thomas Train backpack and colorin book. He said "I love trains!" and played with them the whole time while we waited for another family to get their child. After all of that, Stephi and I brought him back to the hotel. He had eaten EVERY peice of snack food in his bag and both juice drinks and immediately went looking for more food. he is not thin but not fat. Reminds me of Ben a few years ago -very solid. He does not look nine years old (today being his birthday) He is pretty short, but stocky. He loved Stephis watch so we took him to the market and bought him a cheap one. the streets here are a funny mixture of shops like we saw in Zambia right alongside very nice department like stores. He is very generous and shares everything. We took him to a Chinese cafeteria-style place for lunch and he would have picked everything if we had let him. We settled on fried rice (he LOVES it) and some type of meat on a stick and miso soup and a can of pepsi. He shoveled the rice in like he was starved and would not ever eat again. Then he ate three sticks of meat. Then he took on the soup. Finally he poured some pepsi in his soup and ate it. His table manners are , well, we will work on those. He shared everything with Mama (thats me). Even scooping rice from his plate onto mine and giving me a generous spoon of his pepsi soup. We would not resist buying him a couple of little things in the market -a kaleidescope, a snoopy watch (from aunt Stephi). i will go out later to buy him some clothes because we did not know what size to bring and Im glad we waited.
Right now, stephi has gone out to a local store for milk. he keeps eating. He loves chocolate too. he just mixed his leftover soda and a crumbled up granola bar and is eating it out of a tea cup at the hotel...oh, and watching a chinese soap opera -he preferred that to the cartoon channel-lol. oops, spilled it..wait...
Back now. The little guy cleaned up his own mess! He grabbed a towel and wiped it up then took the cup into the bathroom and washed it out.
By the way, big news here. It seems that his bowel problems have gotten much better and now he is actually going potty! He went here right after lunch. Still needs pull ups but Praise God I really think this is not the terrible problem they indicated. The orphange worker told me that in the past month he has gained some good bowel control. I think he just needs some regular potty training and some good food.
He is BUSY! Into everything -kind of like a toddler. Everything is new and interesting. It is fun watching him. i will keep giving you more updates each day. tomorrow I do the actual adoption registration and he will be officially OURS!! I cannot access my blogspot blog or my facebook account from here. I think they are blocked her in Najing.
just here enjoying our boy. I am in love -again!
(Stacey is not able to post on her blog so I-her daughter Grace-will be doing it for her while she is in China. The things I post are just the emails she has sent me).
Here are some pictures of when Mom first met Josiah!
The above one (when he is in his PJs) was when he started jumping on the bed at her hotel in China!
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