Friends

We love spending time with friends! Over Memorial Day weekend we had time to catch up and talk about Micah with dear friends. We don't get to spend time with as much as we'd like with them so a weekend together at a cabin is wonderful!

It's for real!

Have to wait to talk to our social worker until Tuesday, but the mailbox held our 1800 approval. So, it seems our trip to China will most likely fall in August.
This statue that is found in Lancaster is similar to ones found in the city where we will be staying when we process Micah's adoption. We hope to stay at the White Swan hotel.

He said what??

I didn't know Ben knew the phrase, "I'm bored!" but he said it this morning on his first day of summer! How fast can we get those tickets??

Moving on

Ben's last day of school at the Montessori Academy was Tuesday and there was the Arts and Culture Day Thursday. We sweated it out watching each class perform a song and dance from different countries. Ben will have Ms Pearl and Ms Kathy again next year. The school encourages community by having 3-5 year-olds in the same class, keeping them together with the same teachers for the three years.
I mentioned to the teachers and Ms Karen, the director, that we'll keep them posted on how our trip to China will affect school attendance in September. We hope to put Micah in the toddler program at some point.

Duck friends

We visited duck friends and shared some food with them this afternoon. After our bag of oatmeal was gone, the ducks stood in a row looking at us. They must have been disappointed we had no duck food.
This hot, humid weather is good practice for us! When we travel to bring Micah home at the end of summer there will be plenty of hot weather. He is from the southern Guangdong Province.

New thought

Ben really enjoys people. Often his spicy friends will be high energy and action packed. I figured he liked that personality because it's different than himself, who is cautious and particular. He is amazingly like Brad.
Then a new thought hit me this week. Do I look like his friends? If I do, then I probably should sit down a little more.
I spent many years working with Junior High kids. I really enjoy that age group and I have often said it's because of my Dad. He probably could have been labeled ADHD. I loved following him around on our hobby farm growing up. So, spending time with Junior Highers felt very comfortable. So, maybe that's why Ben likes high energy people, too. He's used to following me around. Hummm.

Helping

Ben's class at the Little Gym is wrapping up. His instructors are so sweet to him! His All sports class, that fit in nicely after school, was a great size. Averaged seven kids.
I was cutting some coupons over the weekend for body care items for the local homeless shelter the other day. I like gathering lotions, pretty body wash and underwear that get used for the ladies' birthdays and Christmas gifts. I hope I still will have time to help locally, even if I end up dropping the coupon part of it, after I have two boys to keep up with. I used to pick up clearance gift baskets at January sales but pretty much don't try to do that any more. Ben is a great shopper but...