Saturday evening after everyone was back home from festivities we actually slept all night and decided to go to church and Sunday School. It felt amazing to be back with our church family, worshiping with them and introducing Zander. He loved worship and thought it was time to play during sermon so he and I spent that time him getting to know the church halls. Sunday School was great because he stayed in our class and Tim sat on the floor playing with him. He just fit so seamlessly into our life at church also. God is the most amazing and truly knew where this little guy fit and how blessed our family would be to have him. That afternoon we crashed hard for 9 hours and our sleep was bad for a couple of days. We are slowly getting back into the the swing of sleep though.
Zander is THE busiest, antsiest child I have ever seen. He thinks our house is just another hotel I believe. He is so used to being on the go with us either each meal, tours, planes, etc. and he LOVES to go bye-bye too. Everything and everyone is so new to him, he's been exploring and learning things by leaps. He's saying about 10 words now, walking everywhere, and mimics about everything we do. He knows some sign language taught to him by his foster family and he knows mama & baba (mom & dad), but he is an extreme daddy's boy. When we ask him to do mama, he looks at us, cracks up and will do the sign for mama, but then say baba and then he starts giggling knowing he's messing with us.
He opens everything he can. Doors, drawers, cabinets, lids, whatever, but he doesn't get into anything inside...YET...He just enjoys opening and shutting things. He's learned light switches, sliding and regular doors. The hardest thing right now is sleep patterns, his days and nights will probably be like that for quite a while. Here is a short video to share with you of him getting into cabinets. Enjoy!
Day one without daddy. Well everyone's (Zander, Tim, Carmen, Alex and myself) started at 3:15 am. We had breakfast at 330 and played a lot. Richie rose around 5 and Alex went back to bed. Poor Tim had to start back to work today and left around 6 am. Zander fussed a bit when he left, but mainly wanted to go bye-bye with him.
I started back with childcare this morning with 2 brothers (11 & 5) until they start back to school on Monday. Zander isn't quite sure what to do with these other kids yet. We went back to bed for a couple of hours and now the trick is to keep him awake until at least 7-730 pm to help him get into a routine.
I was so excited about our first day together and had plans to take pictures at the park. NOT! He really liked the picnic part (because it involved eating I believe). Then I tried to place him in a toddler swing, he fought until I actually got him in. My experience with all other kids is that if they don't like something they've never tried, get them to try at least 2 x's. Well, he stayed in the swing less than 5 minutes and wanted out. Then I tried him swinging on my lap, no go. We then tried the kiddie slide, no go, we tried the rocket rider, no go, then the merry-go-round. He actually stayed on that for about 5 minutes with me going slow. I let him just try to wander to whatever he wanted, but he didn't like the big open area. We told the park bye-bye with a smile.
We then got to visit my cousin and he was fine for a couple hours. Daddy is home now and Zander is throwing a new tantrum because he doesn't get to climb the steps. We'll see how the rest of the evening progress, tune in tomorrow for an update!
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