Monday, February 18, 2008

I love to fly with Daddy!








Daddy, lets take another flight around the room.








Look, I can hold my own bottle now.

Yawning

Aaawww....sleeping....

He was showing off this afternoon. He crawls over to the chair, pulls himself up to standing, then crawls up into the chair, then he can pull himself up into a standing position. He then tries to climb up the back of the chair. We don't know where he thinks he is going. He does all this while holding a toy in his hand. He usually always has at least one toy at all times. He is a monkey!!

Bonding day 13 of 15

It is OFFICIAL; Lincoln is completely spoiled at this point. Or so his Nanny tells us. We have been told since we arrived that all kids once they spend enough time with their parents start to get spoiled. Spoiled is the word the nanny’s use to describe their new behavior. They start to act more aggressive while in the room with the Nanny’s. They cry more often, want to be feed first and want to be held more. They steal toys from the other kids. I know Lincoln does this because he does it to Gabriel everyday. When it gets close to the time for our visits they start to get fussy or crying because they know Mommy and Daddy are suppose to be coming soon. Sometimes they have a hard time feeding them because we feed them for some meals and they want us to feed them for all meals. Which is not possible but they don’t understand that. So yes, we were told today he is spoiled! He fell asleep in my arms today after our first visit and didn’t wake up till about 15 minutes before our afternoon visit. The Nanny said he woke up and just screamed and screamed till we got there. He was not crying by the time he reached the play room but it was very obvious that he had been crying. It is OFFICIAL; he loves us and can’t live without us!! Again for me this is happy-sad news. I want him to want to be with us but he also has another four or five weeks of living in the baby house and I do not want that to become stressful for him.

Eric and I had noticed over the last couple of visits that he seemed to be becoming more and more clingy. Wanting to be held and not put down. He actually cried a few times today when we set him down on the floor. As soon as his little feet or butt hit the floor cries. He just wants to be held. Yesterday Eric was flying him around the room and at our morning visit today that is alls he wanted to do. He loves it. We keep telling him it is a good thing he loves to fly because our trip home will be three very long flights back to Boston. We are going to be that nightmare family on the plane with the out of control child. I have no idea at this point how we are going to get him to sit for 10 minutes at a time let alone the six hours each of the flights are. I think I have mentioned before that he seems to have a bit of a jealous side to him. This afternoon Eric was laying on his stomach playing with Gabriel who was also on his stomach. I was off chasing Lincoln around the room. Lincoln hears Eric singing and playing with one of his toys. Lincoln crawls back to where they are and realizes that his Daddy is playing with another baby and with his toys. You should have seen the look on his face. Surprisingly he didn’t make any noise but he looked between the two of them then crawled up a little closer and looked again. After about 30 seconds he just crawled over and sat down next to them and starting to play too. If he could talk I know he wanted to say “That is my Daddy and my toy.”

Over all both visits today were really great. It felt so wonderful having him sleep in my arms this morning. I really wanted to just stay and hold him till he woke up. (I guess this would be considered spoiling.) He got a new change of clothes today. Changing his clothes is really becoming a struggle and takes both of us to do it. He just will not sit still long enough. He loves his feet, it is so cute. I think part of it is he never sees them because he always has four pair of socks on.

Between visits today we just hung out at the apartment. This evening we went walking around the Texho Dom just for something to do. I was hoping once again to find drool bibs but no luck. I seriously now believe they do not use them here. The ones they have at the baby house must have all been donations from adoptive families. I am also searching for hard sole shoes for him. All the ones I find I believe are too big. I just think he could walk better if he had shoes. Oh well, he will have all these things and much more when we get him home.

Oh yeah, last night we finally got our space heater for our apartment and a shower curtain. The shower curtain I will take a picture of it and post it for everyone to get a good laugh. Eric is pretty creative at times. The space heater, oh so nice, we actually got up in the middle of night and turned it off because it was too hot in here. We both got a great night’s sleep since we were not waking up and fighting over the blankets all night long. Life is warm and good again.