Nai Nai and Pop Pop

Well for the past two weeks we have been easing Jun Jun into daycare (he calls daycare "work"). We started with us being by his side for about an hour then the next day we would leave for 15 minutes. This week besides going to the doctor three times to get updated medical records and shoots, I have got him in daycare for 6 hours. He is very smart and we would tell him that I would pick him up after lunch, nap, circle time,... whatever they were doing. This started for an hour then I worked up an hour every day. So he knew when to expect me. The daycare teachers laughed that he started crying 10 minutes before I arrived. He now has friends at "work" including two girls that say "Hi Jun" in unison when he arrives. When he leaves the whole class says "goodbye". This has been a big change for him and when we started he would cry the rest of the night. Now he is happy to go to work and happy to be picked up.

Nai Nai and Pop Pop came up to visit this past weekend. This is the second time they have seen him besides Skype and they were shocked at all the vocabulary he has picked up. They picked us up at the airport when we arrived from China and within 40 days or so they could not beleive that they could have a conversation with Jun. They heard all about every animal with a "looong neck" and also were privilaged to see the ducky collection. They went to Billings Farm and Jun got head butted by a cow. I'm glad that my parents got to spend time with Jun before we all go forward with our normal life.

Today Jun got another shot in the arm so we went to see Kim at work and we had lunch with her and Jun got to eat more rice, yeah. I took him to a local science museum and we saw all kinds of cool things.
-Todd-

Today was Jun's second time visitng daycare (he calls it work) on his own. We only left him there for about 25 minutes, but when we returned he was sitting at one of the tables playing with some cars. -We were told he didn't cry at all after we left! I'd call that success. -And I just have to say that I'm once again amazed by my little boy... I know he won't love everyday of daycare, but I'm just so impressed that he would go in on his second day and handle it the way he did.

The pictures above are of Jun playing with "slime". We made it one day when it was too hot to go to the beach. It's good for hours of fun so we'll make it again this winter I'm sure.

I have to go back to work next week. Todd is taking off 2 weeks but we are still within just a couple of weeks of having Jun in daycare full time. I know he'll love daycare someday, but in the near future he is likely to be scared that we will not be back to pick him up. -Jun and I have been visiting his day care, but today Todd and I left him there for the first time on his own. -For a total of 15 minutes- All things considered I think it went well, but that is not to say it was a good time for him. He was very scared and had to be pulled out of my arms as we were leaving. He was truly afraid when we left. Todd and ran out of the daycare because I had tears in my eyes and did not want him to see them. -So, after leaving the daycare we drove around town for 15 minutes and watched the clock... we just waited for the time when we could return to pick him up. When we retured the teacher told us that he had actually stopped crying after about 10 minutes. I took that as good news, but dread doing the whole thing over again tomorrow.

Earlier this week we took our first trip to the ocean! Jun Jun got hit pretty hard by a wave within the first few minutes of arrival, but other than that the trip was a big success! Jun Jun loved the sea shells and feathers that Dahju found for him so I think we'll be headed back there again soon. -Oh, and I also think he enjoyed the rocking horse, little rocking chair, hotdogs, chips, and fish snack crackers we ate at Nona and Dahju's house. I was worried that 5 hours in the car in one day would bother him, but I think he even enjoyed the car ride.