Yesterday Luigi asked me a question and I responded with "yup". He asked me, "what's yup, mom?" I really need to work on not using slang. I also have to be careful not to use German phrases around them. Growing up with all German family members, and my parents having lived in Switzerland as missionaries, I picked up a lot of phrases that I use with the kids. Gotta kick that, or the boys will really be confused.
Things are going much better here as far as the boys' behavior issues. We have gotten some really great adoptive parenting tips lately from a woman who has adopted 4 of her 11 children. We also started watching some videos online from Dr. Karen Purvis, who wrote The Connected Child. They are so, so helpful, and we finally feel a peace about us. The videos are free, since they're online, and I dont really have time to read books right now. Here is the link, for those of you who could benefit. http://www.irvingbible.org/index.php?id=1662
Today we went to the orchard near Yankton and had such a great time as a family. I know so many people say you should not go out at all with the kids for the first two months. But we go crazy when we're all couped up here all the time. And the boys do great on outings. It seems like when we are home, all we do is discipline and deal with behavior issues. That doesn't help at all with our relationship with them if that's all we do. When we go out we all have fun and the boys are well behaved. It's really great. Then we went to the new Mongolian grill. The boys had a blast eating all the kinds of food they love, especially all you can eat rice, and ice cream.
Allan is in the bath now so I need to keep this short so I can scrub him down.
Luigi and I went to Walmart this morning. It was a great opportunity to spend some one on one time with him. And it was really fun to see what kinds of things he was interested in at the store. I let him pick out the ice cream. Of all the kinds that they have available, he wanted Neopolitin. He was totally amazed to see 3 flavors in one tub.
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Glad things are going better. I think outings are good if you just pay attention to how the kids are reacting. If they get tired or overwhelmed, time to go home. Hope you have another great week.
I was shaking my head in agreement as I read your blog remembering our own similar experiences. We had been warned not to overwhelm Jay-R when we returned home and to introduce new things and experiences slowly. While I do agree that new people should be introduced slowly, the staying at home thing did not work for us, either! He drove us crazy when we were cooped up at home! A trip to McDonald's, a park outing, anything to get out of the house, allow him to run off some energy and to become oriented to his new environment worked for us, too. And I remember thinking, we introduced him to so much just in the five days we were hanging out in the Philippines! Julie, is right, too...you just have to pay attention to your child's reaction as you get to know them. Glad you had a great outing today. Oh, and Walmart, I bet his eyes were big when we went into the store!
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