17 and Counting...

Ian turns 17 months old today! Only 3 months ago, we received our first pictures of him since his referral pictures, which were from 8 months old. He had transformed from a bald headed chubby cheeked baby into a little boy. Still chubby and not as bald, but growing with or without us. Who knows what he looks like today, SO MANY days and weeks later (well, not that long ago, but it still seems like forever!)

Now, almost 3 months since our last pictures of him, we are into our 8 week countdown to travel. I imagine that by now Ian is walking and has teeth to show for all that drool that was in that first video we received.

The above pictures are of his home province Zhejiang. Namely, Wenzhou, his hometown and Hangzhou, the capital, which is where we will meet him for the first time.

His picture here is from 15 months and he is already looking thinner than his first chubby pictures. I imagine it is probably because he had started walking by then and was running around like a little mad man, burning up calories and growing like a weed.