Monday

Hi all- I hope everyone had a good weekend. Ours was good but I tell you it was really hard to not be able to see our guy yesterday. We haven't even spent 24 complete hours with him yet but we are smitten. We spent a good portion of our day looking at photos of him on the laptop (not to rub in the fact that we get to look at photos and you don't). Carson asked in an email what the hardest part of our time here has been and I have to say that I think that all of us here would agree that it is handing him over at the end of visiting time. I always notice how quiet everyone is as we leave the baby house and I don't think it has anything to do with the fact that the kids are going down for a nap. In my mind, anyway, I am kind of going through everything that we did with him that day and what we'll do tomorrow when we see him. And we had to do the afternoon visitation today because the Michigan couple (Jen- from a town in between Flint and Detroit) had their court date this morning. It sure is nice to have people go before us and be able to give us the lowdown on how it works. So anyway, we had afternoon visitation and I don't know if you have checked out the weather here or not, but it is unbearably hot here. Especially when you are in a room without AC and you get yelled at for opening the windows. I guess that's what showers were invented for. But anyway, it didn't seem to bother our little one a bit. He was just as happy and active as always. His favorite thing is this big blue ball like a pilates ball that has bumps all over it. He loves for me to sit him on top of it and bounce and he just loves the texture of it. But today, I sat him up and held him while Peter rolled the ball to him and then I would catch it for him and he would kick it back. He got so excited waiting for Peter to roll it back that he would flap it his arms like he has getting ready to take off and make this excited "UhAhUhAhUhAh" sound. Soooooo cute. He does the same thing in front of the mirror when he sees himself. And he was super active today too. He can't crawl yet but his does this thing where he pushes himself off with his left foot and kind of launches himself forward. I keep thinking that he is going to nosedive and hurt himself, but he seems unfazed. And we did see him whine today when he got tired. I guess that means he's feeling comfortable enough with us that he feels that we'll listen to what he says and try to fix it. Oh, and I almost forgot, Peter kept putting him upside down and so got a gift of half digested beef and potato stew all over the front of him. Literally it was about a quarter cup of it. Or maybe it was horse and potato stew. I don't know. In any case, it was gross. Mer told me the other day that she got our little chickadee some PJ's and diapers which was super nice. I thought I should let the rest of you guys know too that we have updated info for him. He is now 7550grams (around 16pounds?) and 69cm (24inches?). The info we had before was from last month. We have some clothes for him that are 0-3 months and they fit as do 3-6. And we bought some 6-9 that are a little bit too big but he'll grow into them. Also, he has light skin like us so he looks better in the stronger colors rather than pastels (like the both of us). Anyway, I thought I'd just pass it along in case any one's interested :-) Have a great Monday! -m

p.s.- the blue stuff on his leg is because he is a bit under the weather. he's having bathroom issues and I guess they dripped the medicine on his ankle when there were putting it elsewhere. p.p.s.- if anyone has anything they want to know about K-stan just ask and we'll put it in a post!