A few months ago, Collin became hooked on the Thomas and friends website. He loves to play the games on it but, of course, someone (usually daddy) had to help him navigate the site on a laptop. Erik and Collin would do this while I made supper. Erik would let Collin press the keys and move the mouse with his help. With a lot of practice (this became part of the nightly routine) Collin has become really good at using the computer on his own to play his games.
Now he is allowed to play his games on mommy's pink laptop on his own. He needs help getting to the site, but once there, he gets around pretty well by himself.
This morning we had a post-placement visit with our social worker. For those of you not in the adoption world, specifically China, this is one of 3 post-placement visits that China requires. We had a 3 month visit, today was our 6 month visit, and in September we will have our final 1 year visit. The China adoption authorities like reports on how the child is adapting to their new home and family. The social worker we had been working with for the past 4 and a half years is now working with foster families so we have a new adoption social worker. I'm sure she loved getting our file because we have been told several times from our previous social worker that ours is the biggest file in their entire office..we don't doubt it!
The visit went well and the social worker, accompanied by an intern, got to know Collin and commented on his outgoing personality as he was trying to get them on the floor with him to play trucks. I only had to apoligize to the worker once as Collin was tossing around a play hay bale that smacked her right in the head..oops. Good thing it was at the end of the visit and not one of her first impressions!
What Collin is doing now: lining up his trucks and filling the backs of them with trains.
Has it been 6 months already? Wow! Seems like yesterday we welcomed you home at the airport!
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