1 week home

In some ways it is hard to believe it has already been a week and in others its hard to believe it has only been a week since we welcomed home this cute little guy.



Little man loves to nap on the floor!!!! Silly kid!!!! He just gets his blanket when he feels

a nap coming on and sticks his 2 little fingers in his mouth and sleeps.

The past few days MaMa has enjoyed some snuggle time during nap time but

James is pretty independant in his sleep.

The second day home we knew that this kid would never be in a crib....this kid can climb!!! His report said that he has always slept on a mat on the floor and will wake up to make sure his foster mother is sleeping next to him. Since this little guy has lost so much already we decided that we would try to keep the sleeping arrangements as close to what he was used to as possible. We took the crib down and put the mattress on the floor and rolled out the trundle bed and put it right next to it.

By day 3 he was going to bed between 7 and 8 and waking between 530-630. We have bene trying to get him to stay up a little later and then wake up a little later but when this boy is ready for bed he is ready.

He ususally takes one long nap ( 1 1/2 hours) or 2 short naps (30 minutes).

He loves his big sister and she loves him. He gets so excited to see the bus bring her home each afternoon. She definitely is learning to have more patience ....and in time he is going to be learning that we don't push sister or hit her.

James has learned 2 English words this week.

Balloon!!!!

Hi!!! he loves to say Hi when he sees someone. At the park yesterday he pointed and said Hi to two teenage girls. His face lights up and he smiles so big when he gets a response.

James is much smaller then we imagined and all his clothes are a little big.

Here he is watching his new favorite show ....Yo Gabba Gabba!!!

And here he is practicing to feed himself some yogurt. When he first came home

he hated the highchair and now he loves it. The only problem is all the boy wants to eat is Kka Kka ( Korean for snacks) ALL. DAY.LONG. Not only does he want to snack he is picky and wants what he wants when he wants it.

I have not been able to get him to eat a veggie at all - he spits it back out!!!

He loves yougurt, Bananas, and cheese.....chicken nuggets and pizza.

He spits out dumplings, most noodles, gim ( seaweed snacks that every other kid coming home from Korea usually loves). He wouldn't even try the jook I made. Oh, and the Annie's organic bunny mac and cheese he spit out and threw from his tray... If he doesnt want to try he just shakes his head back and forth.

A whole lot of toddler meal preperation happens but very little gets eaten.

Bath time is hard.... really hard. He wont even go near a bathtub.

We have been washing him in the sink and while he looks calm here I assure you that this is NEVER the case. He just hates it so much....he hated it in Korea and hates it here.

We are trying to ease him into in slowly and baths are VERY quick in the sink for now.

Right now he isn't the happiest camper. He awoke sick last night and had to go to the doctors this morning - ummm, he liked that almost as much as he likes baths.  Croup!!!! He is miserable and cranky which is so not like him. Hoping in the next few days the smiley little boy is back and the sickies are behind us all. ( 1 week home and Anthony and I had stomach bugs, I have a sinus infection, and now James has croup)

Welp, thats all we have time for tonight.