Well I realize its been a while since I up a post here but then I also know that most of those reading our travel blog share our days on Facebook.

Shawn is doing well considering that we have only been home 6 weeks now. He pretty much ate and slept well from the beginning and only had a few cry spells the first week or two at home, which is to be expected and I guess I would have been more worried if he did not cry at all. At least we can assume he was loved by his foster family and the nanny at the SWI. He did bring home some pictures of his foster family but he does not look at them much anymore at all.

This will be his 2nd week in school full time. Initially we only went to school for a few hours and Garry or I stayed there to see how things are going and then we transitioned him to afternoons only. Since he had no prior education we opted for Kindergarten and though he should be in 1st grade its more visual and we do not want him to get frustrated that would defeat him being there. Our system works slow here so we are still working on getting his speech services setup. He loves Kindergarten and does well but we are not doing the bus yet. Too much too fast, even though it would be very convenient, but we may as well bring the boys to school and then pick them all up since Sarah gets picked up in the afternoons as well.

We just had his labs done yesterday to run the full panel of tests to establish medical, so hopefully we won’t have any surprises there. We did have his first visit at the CL/CP clinic this past month and we don’t have any immediate surgeries. When Shawn turns 9 he will need to have a correction done to his bite the lower is too far out and his nose bone needs to be extended. He has only one tooth missing so that is good.

His English has been slow but he does understand a great deal when we talk to him. The kids all get along well, we don’t have any issues with the boys sharing rooms and even Shawn and Sarah can play well together when they want to. He is totally over his fear of the big dog, so all in all we are doing well and everything else will take time and patience and TLC.

Happy Holidays
Angie