Saturday,
April 19, 2008
I can hardly believe Tammy has been home for 4 ½ months
already.
Tammy is doing great!! She is eating lots of food now and
gaining weight enough for the nutritionist at Children’s
Hospital to be happy!!
I think Fred our dog has also gained a few pounds since
Tammy has come home.
Tammy has a huge funny bone. She makes us laugh all the
time…She gets in really hyper, funny moods and bounces
around and just cracks her self up. She has the cutest,
funniest facial expressions. She winks all the time. She
is a super happy girl!! She has a real good arm too. She
loves to throw things. Just yesterday she was throwing her
green beans to Fred from her high chair and hit me with
about 5 of them. I didn’t find the one in my shirt until
later though.(eww!!)
Tammy and I went to Chicago to visit my family. She did
great on the flight there. We had a great time meeting,
visiting and playing with Grammy, Grampy, aunts and
uncles. She was having Wiggles withdrawals while we were
there but other than that she had a wonderful time.
Now on the way back to Seattle we met a really nice lady
named Bonnie. She was so great with Tammy. When it seemed
like Tammy was going to be fussy on the plane ride Bonnie
sang to her. Tammy loved that very much. She did good on
the flight back thanks to our friend Bonnie. We are
keeping in touch with Bonnie through email.
Now that reminds me, Tammy had her first celebrity picture
at the airport. We like to watch a show called Deadliest
Catch on the discovery channel. One of the captains of the
crab boats is named Sig. He is captain of the
Northwestern. We saw him in the airport when we went to
pick James. Sig was trying to blend in, but Tammy and I
saw our chance and got a picture with him. He was really
nice.
Tammy is making great progress with crawling and taking
steps. She has Physical Therapy every Wednesday at our
house. She still does the butt scoot but I don’t complain
much it helps keep the floors clean!!
Her next surgery to fix her palate and put ear tubes in,
is planned for sometime in June, we are waiting for the
scheduler to call us on that. The surgeon wants us to keep
putting the silicone on Tammy’s scar and massage her scar
with vitamin E to help minimize the scar. He said it is a
little thicker than he would like to see at this point in
the healing process. She is so cooperative through it
all….
Tammy has a friend who is also adopted from China who has
a cleft lip and palate. They had their first play date and
had lots of fun together. They are going to be baptized at
the same mass also. May 18th.
Now for the most exciting news ever....
Before we went down to China to pick up Tammy, I signed up
on a yahoo group for people adopting in the Shanxi
Province . I was trying to find anyone who adopted from
Tammy’s orphanage. I never did find anyone. Others from
the forum told us it was quite possible we were the first
foreigners to adopt from this particular orphanage.
Well a couple of days ago I went on the emails and saw
another mom asking if anyone adopted from this orphanage.
I contacted the mom and I told her that I have pictures of
a lot of the kids that were in the orphanage because we
sent down 2 disposable cameras in a care package before we
came to pick up Tammy. The mom sent me a picture and I was
shocked and amazed to see that she is adopting Tammy’s
crib mate. Tammy had a crib mate for her whole life in the
orphanage. We believe Tammy was mourning the loss of her
crib mate when we had her the first few days and also when
we came home. To this day she has to always feel me right
next to her when she sleeps at night. She snuggles as
close as possible.
So this is such amazing news. We have 18 pictures of this
cute little boy that I was able to give his family. The
little boy’s mom is so nice and we are keeping in touch.
Her son is the closest thing Tammy will have as family
from her childhood in China . God really does work
miracles!!! I hope someday they will be able to reunite.
Thank you to everyone who continues to follow our updates
and offer their kind words in the guest book.
Talk to you all next month.
Love and Peace- The Jordan Family |
Sig Seatac Airport
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Smiley girl
Green beans and fudgesicles
Our happy girl
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