Saturday, March 3, 2012

Intriguing study

In the midst of some engagement with some down-on-adoption folks, I cam across this study:

Warning: it is dry - being loaded with appropriate statistics.

However, it does show some promise for community (not government) response to local increases in local orphan needs. And it does take some of the blanket negative out of orphanage care.

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Help these families

There are 16 children waiting in VietNam all who have parents waiting in the US for them. Please sign the petition and help them come home!!!


http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.petition2congress.com%2F4665%2Fbring-home-bac-lieu-orphans%2F&h=d2524

Friday, February 4, 2011

a little update


This isn't a breaking news post. Medko has been growing like a weed on MiracleGro! He is almost entirely out of 3T clothes. His speech is also improving dramatically, especially in his willingness to string together full sentences, even trying for multiples. Unfortunately, a lot of his enunciation is not especially clear, so we are still running down near 20% understanding of the words he is using. Super fortunately, he hasn't yet gotten frustrated with us. He is still sticking mostly to functional and concrete questions and requests - after a particular cracker, wondering where Tam or other missing family member is...
Here the boys are enjoying playing at Uncle Daniel & Aunt Toni's house with their golf clubs and one of their dog toys. Far more enjoyable than boy toys, age appropriate or not!
We have decided that most of the Disney movies are off limits for a while. There are too many sneaky instances of disturbing scenes or bad behavior (esp word choices for Tam). "You want a piece of me?" from Toy Story is now a common phrase just before roughhousing begins. Which all by itself is okay, but following the heroes' leads into hitting, not so much. So it's back to Wonder Pets, Ni Hao Kai Lan, Go Diego Go, etc.

Monday, January 24, 2011

We need your help!!!

Our boy's photo is in the top 10 of a photo contest for JCICS, TWICE!!!
and he's not even in the double digits %-wise yet. Clearly, the fans of two of the little girls have been mobilizing longer than us.
It's time to get serious!
Feel free to leave a comment too...

http://betheanswerforchildren.wordpress.com/2011/01/18/sweet-child-of-mine-photo-contest-choose-the-winners/

Obviously, we think he's super cute, but they must have too - they put two pictures of him in the top 10 :)

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Friday, December 31, 2010

2010 pics...




Hoping for a year full of laughter and peace!! It has been so long since I posted pictures of the boys I thought I would end the year on a high note....

Night-night



Obligatory pictures (no relation to the story)


So, after the night time story is over, Tam goes off to climb in his bed. Barry manages to hold Medko like a baby and rock him for 15 seconds and sing something silly to him. He responds with a great grin and a slightly slurred (delirious from no nap?) "I'm so happy". WOW!! There's three little words to rock your parental world!

After singing him the ABC song (breaking a several month streak of Baa Baa Black Sheep), we climb into Tam's bed and he asks: "what that is?" He's pointing at the mist coming out of the humidifier. Barry explains it's water vapor, Donna that it makes the air moist. Tam nods and answers with: "Like chicken." And he doesn't even know how hilarious that is! Though he certainly enjoyed our laughter.

What a just plain great night!