Day 17 of our adoption journey

For whatever reason neither Kathy nor me rested well last night but we are glad to be here.  Each day that we get to spend with “H” is a gift from God.  We look back over the past 16 months and see just how far God has brought us and we realize just how truly blessed we are but also just knowing how God has worked things out according to his plan never ceases to amaze us.  “Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not” (Jeremiah 33:3 KJV).   

Believe it or not when we are at the facility we feel more comfortable because we can at least communicate with them, not through the spoken language but through sign language, really is nice to have that skill.  But I am also finding that many of the signs I have learned through my Uncle and other deaf friends are being changed to a newer sign.  So I am having to go back and learn some of the newer signs as well because I don’t want to teach “H” a sign that is wrong or has been changed.

Kathy and I both saw something in his eyes, today a light bulb began to come on and “H” is beginning to understand our alphabet is different and the letters that look the same may have a different sound.  We have an ABC book that show the words in his language and also in the American language.  This is helping him because I am asking him to look at the work in his language then at the English word.  And relate the alphabet to the correct word.  We cover the ABC every day but it was today we saw a light of understanding.  We praised him each time he got one correct and he was thrilled with that.  So after our hour of language lessons we allowed him his computer game time. 

 

Today we also learned that everything has been approved by the local State Department of Adoptions and the Country’s State Department of Adoptions.  This means our court date for Tuesday is all set now and our facilitator is working to get everything done on Tuesday.  Please help us pray that we can get everything done on Tuesday as for as court and that “WE GET APPROVED!!!”  Then the countdown begins.