Today though, Cameron had his Solo & Ensemble violin competition at the high school. He played at 8:00 AM. I wanted him to have plenty of time to practice before we went, so we were all up at 6:00. I made oatmeal (the old fashioned way). Cam played beautifully! He got really nice comments from the judge.
When we got home, Tina and I watched the video "Adopting From China: a Video Survival Guide". Tina was hoping it would be better, but it was about what I expected. It's a relatively low budget production, but pretty nicely done. A lot of the info we already knew, but it seems to feel good hearing it again. I guess it's reassuring that you are moving in the right direction. It had good information about what to pack. Though they seemed to recommend bringing an entire pharmacy along. If we bring everything on the list, the first aid kit will be its own suitcase.
Tina had a preschool function in the afternoon, so while she was gone I cleaned out our labyrinth garden in the front yard.
A parent from the Waldorf school called yesterday and wanted to know if she could bring a Campfire group over tomorrow to walk it. I broke in the little leaf blower my mom gave me for Christmas. I used to think I didn't want to use power tools in my labyrinth, but it really worked great! My sister-in-law, Kyle took the picture above about two years ago. It looked pretty much the same today, which is weird because one night two weeks ago it looked like this:
So after Tina got back, she and I went to the library and raided their video section for tapes on China again. I think we've pretty much worked through their collection now.
After that we headed out to the mall to pay our Mervyn's bill and look at baby stuff. High chairs, car seats, toys, strollers. It's funny doing this again after some time away from parenting young children. We don't quite fit in with the other shoppers. We're too old to be having babies, but suspiciously young to be grandparents. We were just window shopping until we hit the toddler clothes at Mervyn's and they had these little play outfits with VW Beetles and vans on them. The size thing is a major puzzle? How big is he? How big will he be when we get him? Well even if this stuff doesn't fit, we had to have it. Hey, they were on sale!
When we got home we were relaxing in the living room and I got a phone call from a magic friend of mine named Paul. I had posted about our adoption on a magic email list I belong to. Paul works with an international engineering firm. He was in Shanghai when he read my news. His wife is Chinese and he had emailed me saying that if we needed anything translated she would be glad to do it for us. So anyway, I thought it was really neat that he called me on the phone. He seemed very excited for us and wanted to help. He is very knowledgeable about Japan and China. He felt we should really work hard to preserve and develop Kai's ability to speak Mandarin. He thinks it will be a very powerful and useful skill for him to have.
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