Third day...

Today we were moving room so we decided to pack before breakfast. J of course thought we were going in the airplane but we explained that later today we will have a new room.

During breakfast everything was fine, it doesn’t help that the swimming  pool is right outside the breakfast room and he loves the swimming pool so already he started saying I want to go to the swimming water as he calls it. We told him we will go later, he did run off a few times to go and look through the window but all in all it was fine.

Today we had an appointment at the orphanage with the doctor, we need a medical certificate for his visa file and we wanted to meet his doctor. On the way to the orphanage we asked him if he wanted to go to school, first he was excited but when we got there he did not want to go in. I think he thought we were bringing him back. It broke my heart and in the midst of it all I walked into a low hanging roof with my head. Man did it hurt!! Luckily I got kisses from daddy but also from J and it also broke the moment.

We met with his occupational therapist and his doctor both of them have know him since he arrived at the orphanage. They were so nice and knowledgeable and were able to explain us a lot about his time there and how much progress he has made. Whilst we were there I went to see D a little girl that has a serious illness, she is so sweet, I chatted to her and held her hand but J did not like that! I was his mommy ... It made me very sad though to see her in her crib, I hope she will get adopted soon. Talking to the doctor for me was also very hard, it just reminds me of what a difficult start he had in life.

We got all the paperwork and got back to the hotel where our boy decided to have some “monster time”. It started by me making him pick up a tissue he threw on the floor and telling him to go throw it in the bin. He threw it on the floor about ten times before we reached the bin, it doesn’t help that hotel staff want to interfere and either do it for him or bring him the bin or promise him candy! Parenting is hard when other people interfere. Eventually he did but it took a while to go from “monster boy” to “good boy” but we got there. After lunch we skyped with my sister and her children, he was very happy to see them but again it made me very emotional. I miss home and my family and of course we’d just had “monster time” so I was a bit weary. We went swimming after that and it was great, he loved it and had so much fun and when it was time to go, no argument. You see when he is a good boy (which really is most of the time) he is very sweet and well behaved.

We then met up with new friends we made locally and visited Lalbagh gardens with them and their six year old daughter. We had a great time walking around the park and J also enjoyed a lot. We finished the day with a nice Indian meal and he was well behaved all the time.

We have our evening routine down now to bath, brushing teeth, bedtime story and sleep with Momo the bear. Today when I finished reading the story he said I love you mommy and gave me a  kiss on the mouth and a big hug so yes we have our difficult moments but I feel that with time things will be ok and I will always remember my promise, I will love him no matter what because he is the one who had the rough start to life not me and it helps that I have such an amazing husband who is so great with him.