Yesterday in an attempt to get Jun to walk more we bought him some balloons and guess what he did walk more. We went down the elevator and thru the hallway out the front door and outside, this is awesome we thought. Jun had the balloon between his teeth and was loving every minute of it. We had to get some currency from the bank next door so I walked up to the teller and started my transaction. A fellow adopting parent was there form NY and we started talking. Kim and Jun Jun were sitting quietly in the seats in back of us. Exchanging money takes a long time for some reason and I was talking to the NY guy when I felt a little taping on my butt. I turned around and Jun Jun was hitting me with the balloon. After having that bit of fun he went to sit with Kim again. We were ready to leave and their were steps going out of the bank so Jun wanted to be carried again. Ma Ma picked him up high and Jun held the balloon high to the low ceiling. All of a sudden we here this loud pop. The security guard almost drew his gun or hit the deck, he didn't know what to do but he was scared to death (and not impressed). Jun started laughing, and all us americans started to have a chuckle.
I have to tell you about all the amazing families here. We are actually a minority in the fact that we only have one child or one adopted child. We see families with two three kids all day long. I mentioned before that the White Swan hotel is where 90% of all american based adoptions end up. There is this guy from CO that has one deaf child which was adopted from the USA; he is now adopting a younger child (about 4) and and older kid who is 13 both of which are deaf. The 13 year old is so happy to have a family as he is at the age that he would be a life long orphan if he didn't get adopted this year. The Chinese adoptions are not like they used to be, from what we hear and see. A couple of years ago you could have a beautiful baby girl in good health in a short time period. Now families are waiting about 4 years average and most all the children have some sort of medical care issue. Mostly it seems that children have clef lips, heart problems or deformed limbs. Parents are also going solo and leaving the other parent at home. This is unbelievable to me but they are doing it. We have meet a lot of truly great people here and they are making a lot of kids very good homes.
Jun hales from Inner Mongolia, their are not many adoptions from this area. Our agency in NYC said that we are the first to have a child placed by them from there. In talking to a local street vendor that makes a living selling stuff to adopted families; he said that he would guess that we are about the 150th family to get a child from Inner Mongolia. Jun Jun is a real treat and he sure is a fighter. When we tell him no he will throw a fit, but he know better, but still cries. He is still testing us and for now we are giving him the benefit of the dout on most things. He is going through a rough time in his life. So we will pick flowers for him every once in a while. I mean, come on, flower was his first English word.
-Todd-
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