Arthur's - Adoption Cartoon

One day recently I was sitting on the couch next to Andrew as he was watching the cartoon Arthur. I realized that this was the episode where Arthur's Friend Binky and his family adopt his baby sister from China. When I realized that the show was on international adoption and that our dossier was waiting for our dossier to be submitted for our approval in Ukraine, I felt it was the right time to start talking and preparing Andrew about our up coming adoption.

On the show, it talked about Binky's family flying on an airplane to China to adopt and bring home his baby sister and how they all were adjusting to each other after they were home. Throughout the show I asked Andrew, what do you think if we adopted a little girl to be your baby sister? He was all for it...with no hesitation. I then asked him what he thought about adopting her from Ukraine instead of China. Andrew knows he was born in Ukraine and when he heard that suggestion he lit up with a positive response of Yeah Mommy. I then said we would have to fly in an airplane, "All the way over to Ukraine". He wanted to see a map of the earth to see just how far we would have to travel to get there. I then had to let him know that we it won't be tomorrow when we will be traveling and that we don't know yet but hopefully we'll be finding out soon when we can go to adopt Andrew's baby sister.

To my surprise when I dropped off Andrew at Preschool today, his teacher, Miss Erica told me that Andrew brought up the subject in school one day how he and his Mommy and Daddy are going to China to adopt his baby sister. I was surprised that Andrew told his teacher all of that that I had to laugh and then tell her the corrected version of the story. She said he was so excited about it when he talked to her about it. Miss Erica has told me several times at how impressed she is with Andrew's vocabulary and is impressed with his memory and listening skills. She says that he's quite the conversationalist and remembers things she taught him a week or two ago. She says that he is usually one of the only kids in the class that will answer her questions to the class when she quizes them on what she taught them a week or two ago.

Andrew's memory is like an elephants for sure. If you tell him something or he if you promise him something you best remember and follow through with whatever it was or he'll call you on it even if it's the next day or so...he remembers.