It's only the 10th (and Happy 15th Birthday to Mary today!) and the year seems really busy. Jack started kindergarten last Monday. He is in the same building as Bethany but they are in different classrooms. He seems to be happy that he is going to the same school with the girls, but we've been called twice by the school so far when he has had breakdowns, crying for long periods of time. Both times he was able to calm down and stay at school. One of the time he lost it because the zipper on his beloved Superman backpack broke and could not be fixed. He is such a brave little boy, we know he will be fine, but he has been through so much in the last 2 months.
And he had to spend the morning of his 2nd day of kindergarten at the cardiologist. This was his first evaluation with the doctor who had reviewed Jack's medical information from China. They did an EKG. This did not go over well with Jack, who was already a little upset because he didn't get to go to school with the girls that morning. They would have done an echocardiogram but Jack was just too upset and the doctor said he recommended just waiting six month until he gets more settled in and then do it. Anyway, things look fine right now, no murmer heard, no treatment expected, just periodic monitoring. Very good news.
We received a treasure from China recently. Thanks to the ongoing efforts of our agency, we received a Lifebook for Bethany, made by her orphanage. There are pictures and little stories about her activities from 2005 up to right before we met her in May 2007. It is just amazing. We are trying to figure out the best way to preserve this as it's on thin paper and the photos are glued to the paper. We are just very grateful to finally have this huge piece of her history.
We met Jack for the first time two months ago today. Overall things have gone pretty well, though we are still having issues with the three of them getting too wild when they play. Someone is always getting hurt or getting left out or something that requires a lot of crying and comforting. It's good to get back into a schedule after the extended Christmas break and weather problems. Work has been very busy, there is homework and housework and always something going on, but we are very glad to be finally settling into being a family of five.
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Your year has started out busy! Hope it settles out some on all fronts! Glad for the good report on Jack's heart!
Hey - thanks for the update! Looks like Christmas was a good time, and the medical on Jack is GREAT NEWS! Like you - we're trying to settle back into a normal schedule, the Holiday's really messed up Braelyn's sleeping, but we're making progress back to 'normal'!
hugs -
aus and co.
Hi,
I am Mom to Wyatt- also from the Hefei orphanage. I saw that you are trying to figure out a way to preserve your daughter's lifebook. Wyatt's is a mess because the binding completely fell apart, so I have kept the pages in order. We have a baby jelly beans site, and I have been scanning the pictures, saving them on a flash drive and loading them onto the site which I will eventually have saved on a keepsake CD. Once they are all scanned, I may build a photo book with My Publisher, and put the comments that have been translated in Englih with the pictures so that he can have them in a safe, hardbound form to be able to enjoy them. As for the originals, I will store them in three-hole punched scrapbook page protectors and put them in a binder. -just some ideas. I too and big on figuring out ways to keep these precious memories safe. -Tamara
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