Where we last left off was all of us getting sick right at the beginning of the US outbreak of Covid-19. Luckily, we think it was just a bad flu/cold combo and we're all doing great now.
Today we celebrated that Joshua has now gone halfway around the sun. Even though next week won't bring the finalization of the adoption like it was supposed to, we are so incredibly blessed. Sometimes I feel guilty that in the midst of all this upheaval, uncertainty, and pain that I have so much joy at my new circumstances. To be home with him during these months feels like a second maternity/ paternity leave for us. It has always been our dream to work from home together and now for a few precious months we can do that. (We seriously aspire some days to be hermits, lol.)
So here are some Joshua updates. In the past month, he has learned how to roll over and now rolls all over the family room floor but only in one direction! He gets so frustrated when he ends up against a chair or a pillow and can't get himself into reverse. Silly boy.
He's getting to be a MUCH better eater. We've had some days when we nickname him our baby bird because we can't get the food to his mouth fast enough and he keeps his mouth open waiting (sometimes very impatiently, lol). We can't wait for his appointment next week to see what he weighs.
He's back to sleeping through the night. Now that he's rolling, his sleep was really thrown off because we could no longer swaddle him. Most often now he turns himself over and sleeps with his little bum in the air.
With all of the changes to our schedules, it's been "interesting" to try to juggle teaching from home with his schedule. He's gradually able to play in the playpen for longer chunks of time, but there are those days when he's off or just wants to be held, so we pass him back and forth as we're run back and forth to our computers for meetings. I'm hoping things will normalize because so far fitting it all in seems really daunting.
Our new adoption hearing is set for June 10th on his 8 month birthday. Today we celebrated by lighting more of our old adoption papers on fire in the fire pit. It was so nice to see adoption fees and our unused adoption profiles go up in smoke as we held our son. Thank God and his birth parents for giving us this gift.
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| Watching old adoption papers go up in flames. So cathartic. |
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| Joshua's first fire in the fire pit. |
