Adoption Day

Tuesday, March 19th was the day Mycah Junbin joined our family forever! When he first woke up, he had a blank stare for quite a while. But, oh, how he lit up when I showed him his new clothes. He was very excited about his Mickey underwear and his new shoes! Down we went to breakfast where he promptly ate everything I had set before him. With my other kids, I always put lots of stuff on their plates since I wasn't sure what they would eat. They would pick through most of it, finding the few things they liked. So since this worked 3 children in a row, I did the same. Then I watched as he ate every grain of fried rice, every bit of corn congee, almost a full bowl of noodles, a banana, a sticky bun, and a couple of bites of watermelon. When he finally slowed down he had a funny look on his face and I was afraid we were about to see his first tears. So I promptly scooped him up and headed out to see the fish in the garden. He LOVED them and just jabbered away. When it was time to go back inside, he was walking very slowly. And as soon as we reached the table, his stomach apparently decided there was not enough room for what he had eaten! Yep...all over the new shoes! And yup, someone took a picture! (Thank you, Sonia, for taking care of that clean up while I took him back to the room! What would I do without you?) When I got back to the room I also noticed he had downed 2 packs of fruit snacks before we left for breakfast. Don't worry...I did a better food monitoring job the next day!

A few minutes later we were all cleaned up and heading back over to the Civil Affairs office where we met him less than 24 hours before. I asked the guide to make sure he understood what was going on and that he would still be leaving with me to go back to the hotel. I didn't want him to be upset that he wasn't seeing his teachers who brought him or worry that he would be having another traumatic experience! He was pretty stone faced once we arrived in the building. He quietly sat with his cup and snacks and just looked around. A couple of interviews and a few stamps later, we were done, and he was officially a Saylor! What a joy!