One Step At A Time

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Today we spent another day inside the orphanage playing with Andrew. He is such an active boy that doesn’t like to be limited to one room. We were sharing the play room with the Irish couple that is adopting a little girl from Andrew’s groupa. So things were a bit overwhelming for him. He didn’t want to play with his toys much. He seems to especially like inventing games or creating his own toys. Today in the play room the windows have these long sheers over them. Andrew leaned up against them and wrapped the sheers around himself and was playing peek-a-boo with us. We had to be careful he didn’t pull down the curtain rod on his head, however, he was having a ball with that.



While we were in the play room the orphanage doctor came out of her office (room next to play room) and lifted up the piano key cover and brought us out a chair to sit and play the piano with Andrew. Oh, how we both loved that. Kept him still for a while anyway. He was banging on the keys until I showed him to just use one finger. He did that for a while and then went back to lightly banging on the keys. It was fun and we got some cute photos of our little piano man. Who knows maybe he’ll be a famous pianist some day.



Since we were told to stay inside and Andrew was in some desperate need for some exercise we took him over to the stairwell that he is so fascinated with when we walk around the building. So we got him stair climbing 2 flights of stairs two times today. The orphanage has a lower hand rail for the young children to hold onto, so I was teaching him to walk up the stairs with holding onto the railing and me holding onto his other hand. He did great! He really pulled and pulled himself up one step at a time. Now we have to teach him how to go down the steps. He needs a lot of work on that one. He loves those stairs though.



Today we received our care package from our family. Thank you so much for everything and for taking the time to get everything on our list. The NJ tee shirt for Andrew is adorable. It says “New Jersey…Are we there YET??!! Love it!!! Robert says that you forgot one important thing in the care package and that’s a pair of RED RUBY SLIPPERS.



I can’t believe it has been 2 whole weeks since we had court. We are half way through the 30 days as of tomorrow! WHHOOO WHOOO!! These two weeks have flown by. Andrew keeps us very busy and in between visits we are either getting food and water for our hotel room or getting lunch or blogging in the evening. Each day goes by quickly, thank God for that. Thank you all for your continued prayer over us. We appreciate it greatly.