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7-1/2 months in the care center, and 7-1/2 months in our home.
Somehow, that boggles my brain just to think about it.
Does that mean, they were this comfortable in the care center, when their lives were once again drastically changed?
Just in the last few days, Kebrom vocabulary has increased. Only, instead of words, it's phrases. When Paul gave him a plastic bowl instead of the glass one he wanted, 'Dad, that's not very nice!' with all proper inflections. Wrestling with Kyra, she was 'tossing' him onto the couch 'this is going to cost you!' He's been imitating Vector from "Despicable Me" lately, hips thrust forward chanting, 'oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah.'
Atsede seems to have had a harder time when I went to help Grandma & Grandpa last weekend. I wonder, does she worry I'm not going to come back? She's been a little out of sorts, hopefully will be much better today. She confessed to Paul, she didn't know what happened to her family in Ethiopia. Ahh, that makes my heart hurt. Did her mom drop the two little ones off & not tell them she wasn't coming back?
I remember older kids at the care center, talking about how new kids would stare out the cracks in the gate. For hours.
I keep telling Atsede...our home is forever. Kebrom seems to accept that at face value, we're enough...he trusts us. He's so sure Dad will catch him when he jumps, sometimes he forgets to tell Paul he's jumping! But Atsede, not so much. She'll have to learn over time, yes, this is forever. Her new family. Her forever family.
Somehow, that boggles my brain just to think about it.
Does that mean, they were this comfortable in the care center, when their lives were once again drastically changed?
Just in the last few days, Kebrom vocabulary has increased. Only, instead of words, it's phrases. When Paul gave him a plastic bowl instead of the glass one he wanted, 'Dad, that's not very nice!' with all proper inflections. Wrestling with Kyra, she was 'tossing' him onto the couch 'this is going to cost you!' He's been imitating Vector from "Despicable Me" lately, hips thrust forward chanting, 'oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah.'
Atsede seems to have had a harder time when I went to help Grandma & Grandpa last weekend. I wonder, does she worry I'm not going to come back? She's been a little out of sorts, hopefully will be much better today. She confessed to Paul, she didn't know what happened to her family in Ethiopia. Ahh, that makes my heart hurt. Did her mom drop the two little ones off & not tell them she wasn't coming back?
I remember older kids at the care center, talking about how new kids would stare out the cracks in the gate. For hours.
I keep telling Atsede...our home is forever. Kebrom seems to accept that at face value, we're enough...he trusts us. He's so sure Dad will catch him when he jumps, sometimes he forgets to tell Paul he's jumping! But Atsede, not so much. She'll have to learn over time, yes, this is forever. Her new family. Her forever family.
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