driving ms. Autumn
okay, you do realise I'm gonna throw this at you, right dad?!
"behind-the-scenes" while someone else is taking a photo.
argh. I have only four more days and then it's back to work for me. G went back this past Monday the 5th, and I go back on the 12th. It's alittle hard to believe that the time we've had home with ms. Autumn Rose is done/almost done. We're glad that we took the time away from work to be home with her as it has really helped her to adjust and feel comfortable with us, her two canine sisters, and her house. I think in a way though that we're ready for this next step. AR will go into day-care at a nice little place (church) just about a block away from where we both work (G's place of work is up the road from mine) where she can have several little friends (a couple of whom we found out are adopted as well...one from China the other from Nepal), learn to socialise more, and reach a balance between her self and her need for mom and dad to be there 24/7. It will be a healthy thing for her...and a good thing for us as well seeing as how we can get back to what we know...working, interacting with our peers, etc. not to mention seeing money going back into the bank account instead of just leaving it. LOL I've been...well I should say "we've" been (AR and myself) enjoying this week together while mom's at work. Since Autumn really attached to mom right away it's been good having time to strengthen our bonding. AR's gotten the chance to act up with her dad and see that he's perfectly capable of taking care of her as well. Not to mention she got a great pair of pink Converse high-top shoes while we were out running around on Monday. (yup, mom looked at her and then me and was like "uh huh" knowing that daddy's already into spoiling his little girl LOL)
driving ms. Autumn
okay, you do realise I'm gonna throw this at you, right dad?!
"behind-the-scenes" while someone else is taking a photo. 
1 comment:
T & G
It's hard going back to work when you want to spend time with your child. it was probably harder on me than M. That said though, day care REALLY helped improve our daughter's social skills and helped her learn to talk much more quickly than when we'd been at home. We'd even had a child care worker friend come to our house for about 1 1/2 days a week before we found a FT place and she had taught M some sign language that was also very helpful for all of us. (Hubby was working at home at the time and found -- aha -- it's really hard to do with a new child in your life! LOL) In addition, because it was a small in-home daycare, we got to introduce a number of Chinese culture related traditions to a group that is, how shall we say, not at all diverse. (we live in VT.) M no longer goes there, but the CNY traditions continue at the daycare.
On a different note, we also got to talk to waiting families at our social worker's office soon after we got back . It was kind of weird feeling like an "expert" when in one sense we didn't have much experience at all, and in another, had experience from worlds away. Plus , I think it cracked people up that M was such a good eater (even though we had said she was). The SW had a little spread of cheese, crackers, grapes, olives and other snackables and our daughter spent almost the entire time eating away. :o) I'm sure AR will make a similar impression.
Best of luck and keep posting on RQ, we miss you.
PT
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