Memorial Day Weekend

We had one crazy weekend and then some.

Backing up to Thursday, we had our 6 month post-placement meeting with our social worker and it went really well. Even Polli behaved herself (note: she's doing much better after her scary allergic reaction Wednesday).

Unless you count the moment that Ian appeared from the laundry room wielding a giant bolt from Polli's dog door... or when Shawn again mentioned sometimes wishing he could toss Ian out a window... or the casual mention about how sometimes Ian plays ALONE upstairs... Or when a big black ant crawled up the wall inches from her head... Besides those "sink under the table" moments, it was a nice 3 hours. Yes, 3 hours. Once, while Ian was in his high chair eating, he looked right at Becky and yelled "bye bye!". It was all I could do to keep from busting out laughing. She was using a clock in our kitchen as her stopwatch and it wasn't until she left that I realized it was an hour behind. Oops! Hopefully she wasn't late getting somewhere.

She didn't want to see his room or any other part of the house (fine since I didn't lift a finger to clean) and she seemed pleased with how well Ian has bonded with us and Polli. We'll have one more meeting in November, at which time we will also complete our "state re-adoption" process, therefore getting Ian a Washington birth certificate in his American name. After what we had to go through to adopt, we can definitely see how important something like that can be.

Friday, we picked Ian up from daycare and headed to the gym for another fun evening of swimming. For the first time, Ian floated BY HIMSELF on a water noodle, although he didn't know he was going solo.

Leading into Saturday, Grandma Trish came over while Shawn and I went to a birthday party for one of his co-wokers. It was a great 4 hours out of the house for a catered dinner and open bar. Who could ask for more?

Sunday was a whirlwind... We were all up by 6:30am, out of the house for another morning of swimming by 9am, and meeting Shawn's wonderful friend Behnam and his fiance B, for lunch...and finally home by 12:30 for Ian's much needed nap. After nap, Grandpa Tom arrived as well as Shawn's uncle Jeff and his girlfriend Thea, who were visiting from Minnesota, for dinner at one of our favorite Italian restaurants.

We assumed that such a long day would result in a very sleepy boy, but Ian was up and ready for another day of fun by 7:00. I turned on the TV for him for the first time in months and he watched a whole 5 minutes of Go Diego Go before losing interest. He's just not a TV kid. I'm not complaining! It shaped up to be a nicer day than we expected, so while I headed out to the gym for a few hours of alone time, Ian and Shawn spent it outside...and enjoying a 3 hour nap.

Shawn and I traded places, and I came in just in time to wake Ian for lunch, while Shawn left to do some scuba dive equipment shopping. Ian and I spent the afternoon in the blow up pool and playing with most every toy possible in the backyard.

Our long weekend is finally winding down and I think it's safe to say we crammed as much as possible in 3 days. It will almost be like a vacation getting back to work tomorrow!

Ian and Polli watching Shawn trim the hedges... Polli's taller than Ian!

Ian with our dear friends Behnam & B.

The Boys

Horsing around with Grandpa Tom

Polli's gate had to go up for our Sunday visitors... Ian tried to break her out of jail.

Temporary TV hypnosis. Five minutes later, he was on to bigger and better things.

Rock on, dude! You can almost see him spinning turntables here.