How time flies...

I now understand the common feeling of adoptive parents when we talk about the wait for our children often feeling excruciatingly long, yet when they're in our arms time seems to go at warp speed! We've been home with Tae exactly three weeks and we can't believe it! Yet they've been delightful weeks. Here's a bit of what happened this past week:

Tae had his first doctor's visit in SLO. The doctor wrote about Tae on the form for our adoption agency, "very healthy, alert infant, excellent disposition." We knew that already, but it's nice to hear it "officially!" We also had our first post-placement visit from our adoption social worker, and she gave us all a thumbs-up! Yea!

We've had lots of walks in the stroller and in the Ergo carrier around town. Tae loves being outside, though he's not a fan of the sun...and unfortunately not a fan of hats, either!

He likes playing on our back deck (which is getting more and more complete!) and eating oranges on our tree -- literally on the tree -- he'll take a bite of an orange while it's still hanging on the branch! The day he did this we also got this cute photo of him with a hat on before he ripped it off!

We're thrilled that Tae is an excellent eater -- he has loved almost everything we've fed him. His very favorite food so far has been -- get this -- Copper River salmon. Good thing the season is over or else we'd have to take out a loan to afford it!

And most importantly, Tae has stolen his grandparents' hearts. My (Jana's) parents were here for three weeks and left on Sunday. They were so good to him -- and us -- during their visit, and we don't think we could have begun this journey nearly as well without them. (Thank you so, so much Grandma Sharie and Grandpa Rod!). We're so excited to introduce Tae to his GrandMary Jane and Grandpa Don and all his aunts and cousins later this month/early September.

Tae does continue to grieve the losses he's experienced, and life isn't always easy for us day to day -- I came down with a cold on Sunday which makes parenting even more challenging trying not to get Tae sick. But overall we are overjoyed with our new little family. Thanks for checking in on us! We'll try to post an update about once a week.

P.S. We did decide on his name (Carol..."Tae Gyu" will work fine! :-) )

Tae (first name, pronounced "tay")

Gyu (middle name)

Schofield (second middle name)

Isensee (last name)