Introduction
In a previous post entitled Adopting Older, International Children, I addressed a number of issues when adopting older children internationally. Everything I discussed in that post related to making the child feel comfortable in a home environment including food, sleeping arrangements, language and touch. What I didn’t address was issues relating to venturing outside of the [...]
Archive for June, 2008
Adopting Older, International Children – Part II
Posted in Adoption on Thursday, June 26, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Reflections on a First Father’s Day
Posted in Adoption on Sunday, June 15, 2008 | 9 Comments »
As I sit here on a quiet Sunday afternoon, I reflect back on the last 8+ months of our lives and realized how blessed we’ve been. I’m celebrating my first Father’s Day and life is good.
At this time last year, we were only dreaming about what our lives would be like after adoption and [...]
Name Decision and Update
Posted in Adoption on Monday, June 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Names
Our previous post about last names for the children sparked a bit of interest from those reading our blog. Several of you provided comments containing some great ideas and we’ve taken them to heart and considered each seriously.
After several weeks of discussing, thinking and reading your comments about the final names for the kids [...]
New pictures from Tuyên Quang
Posted in Adoption on Saturday, June 7, 2008 | 7 Comments »
We got some pictures from our nanny friends at Tuyên Quang to Evan & Caylan today:
Mẹ Lieu (the head nanny) with Luon and Phan (two older children at TQ)
Mẹ Ngoc (Lieu’s sister) with Luon and Phan
Good News
Posted in Adoption on Friday, June 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
One of our friends here in Seattle is leaving for Vietnam to pick up her 12-year old daughter in Cần Thơ. She has been waiting so patiently for such a long time. Unfortunately, she doesn’t have a blog. We wish her the very best in her journey to Vietnam and can’t wait to meet her [...]
