Our first month home

We have made it through our first month home with Karuna. We have had our fair share of ups and downs just like anyone that adopts an older child. For the most part things have been positive. His language is exploding. We visited the ESL teacher this week and she gave us a few websites to have Karuna practice Math and reading. She is starting him at a kindergarten level because of his lack of the English language. So far he seems to understand theath much easier than reading. We are calling this a "game" because when we mentioned school he seemed to be very uninterested and would say "NO".

As I mentioned in my last post, Karuna had to have 2 cavities filled and he was very unhappy with me afterwards. The dentist said he did very well during the procedure. I have already decided that Maurice gets to take him to the doctor when he has to have shots before school starts!!


At the end of May we were able to visit the Baxter family who brought their daughter home a week before we came home. They were so happy to see each other. We had a wonderful pizza buffet and afterwards the kids went to the play room and enjoyed almost an hour of playing in the arcade. We hope to see them again this month. We also had our first visit to Nana and papa's house which included meeting my brother, his daughter and her husband and 2 kids. We had a cookout and the kids had fun playing.

School is finally out for Jessica so things are much less stressed for her. We put the trampoline up last weekend and they both had fun jumping on it.

That's about all for right now. I will try to post some pictures soon.