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Saturday, November 29, 2008
Minnesota
Anant met all his family in Minnesota in the past week or so. We went to MN on Nov 20 in the wee hours of the morning
then left the same way on Nov 25. It was a whirlwind tour seeing all of Rob's side of the family we could see. Anant really
enjoyed seeing everyone. He enjoyed the Mall of America. Especially Camp Snoopy rides that he was able to go on (ones that
he could go on with a chaperone). After almost every ride he whined to get back on. Then we told him that we were going on
another ride and he was happy to oblige.
Anant also loved all the dogs. Every home we went to, except for one, had dogs. Anant called his Granpa's house "Dee's
house" (the dog's house).
He recently, over the past week started asking questions like "where are we going?" "Who's that?". Maybe because we were
in the car just about every day while we were away going somewhere?
He has also gotten to the point where he can sing whole chorus' of songs by himself. We heard him sing the "Noah Built
the Ark" chorus and he also sings "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" by himself. Its really cute hearing him sing.
Its been hard to blog as life has gotten busy and hard of late.
We haven't heard anything from our lawyer about a court date as of yet.
Mary
Friday, November 7, 2008
Potty training part 2
Well, things continue to go very well with this developmental task. Anant has taken a liking to using the potty. Yesterday,
I am told he did not have one bowel movement in his diaper. Yeah Anant way to go!!!!
The times using the potty chair continue
to increase. Especially whenever Daddy goes to use the bathroom, he wants to use his potty too. Poor Daddy has to have a two
year old staring at him while sitting on the potty and trying to make sure, I am doing things the right way like, "pee
pee down."
Being challenged to go to the bathroom as someone is staring at you means that Daddy sits there a long
time before his business is done.
Anant has also taken to striping naked on occasion when we are not expecting it. No
diapers, nothing. This is problematic when he does this at night and we go in to his room to find a naked boy standing up
in his crib. We wonder if it is because he needs to use the potty?
Rob
11:49 am est
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Our Adoption Process of Anant
- April 9, 2006 Anant is born in Aurangabad, India
- Spring?, 2006 Mom and Dad meet with a social worker about India adoption and become discouraged that
the road can be long and difficult
- March 15-30, 2007 Mom and Dad visit India
- April 23, 2007 Dad inquires of Holt about India adoption
- May 10, 2007 application for home study (report by local social worker with all kinds of
personal information about us-basically a report about our family) started
- July 27, 2007 joined waiting child program with Holt
- August 9, 2007 Home Study approved by Holt International Childrens Services in Eugene, OR
- August 27, 2007 New Waiting Child listing sent out with guess who in it
- September 8, 2007 fingerprinted in Center City Philadelphia for filing of I600A (US approval for us
to adopt-finalized in India)
- September 13, 2007 Waiting Child Committee accepts us as Anant's parents!
- September 22, 2007 completed Dossier (Stack of official papers about us that go to India) sent
to Holt--Whew!
- September 26, 2007 I600A approval from US Gov-fingerprints cleared.
- September 27, 2007 Anant's acceptance papers sent to Holt
- October 12, 2007 Paperwork sent to BSSK (the childcare agency in India where Anant lives) for India process to begin!
- October 20, 2007 BSSK has looked over our papers and filed for No Objection Status with the Indian government
- December 3, 2007 Holt called to tell us we have our No Objection Certificate (actually dated 11/27/07-see post regarding
the importance of this date on 12/9/07). This will now be filed in the local (Pune, Maharastra) court for guardianship.
- December 6, 2007 Received word that our I600A approval has indeed reached New Delhi (this is needed in order to bring
Anant home. The other part of this is showing up with him at the US Embassy in New Delhi to do the I600 and complete his visa
with a medical evaluation! Now it will be legal for us to bring him home.
- January 18,2008 We are notified of receiving Verbal Gaurdianship of Anant.
- January 30, 2008 We receive Written Gaurdianship of Anant Blake. It also happens to be Rob's Father's
birthday.
- February 22, 2008 leave for India
- February 25, 2008 meet and take home Thomas Anant Blake (This happens to be Mary's Dad's Birthday)
- February 29, 2008 leave India
- March 1, 2008 home!!! YAY.
- April 29, 2008 Alien Registration Card Received
- August 1, 2008 Applied for SS#/Card (should have done this sooner)
- August 8, 2008 SS#/Card Received
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Anant's words: pretty much said in this order
Momma
Bye
Hi
Ball
Up
Down
Uh Oh
Amen
Ball
All Done
Eeew
Wow
Yay
Bible
Out (referring to Derby to get out of the kitchen and stop eating his food! You can tell we say this a lot)
Ow
Hot (means hot and cold and blows on the food whether hot or cold)
Apple
Anant (pronounced Ana)
More
Egg
Water
Banana
Head
Hide
Peek
Makes a car sound
Makes a dog sound (I'm told by the speech therapist that these count! So I'm counting them)
elbow (4/23/08)
Bowl(4/24/08)
Orange
Strawberry (Pronounced Sraugh-not sure whether to count this or not?)
Waffle
Hello (4/25/07)
Eye
Cup
Mouth (sounds like mou)
House 4/26/08
Please Momma 4/28/08
Cracker
Choo choo (train sound)
Makes a monkey noise
Tea 4/30/08
5/08: Sock, Shoe, Derby, Dog, Bath, Bag, Door, Fork, Spoon, Bath, Reina, Dance, Cry, Deep, Wide, Bubbles, Bird, Nana,
Bus, Eat, Milk, Bus, Nana, Door, Nathaniel (pronounced Nuh), Chop (chop Derby's food), Ear, Open, Hand, Off, On, Cheese, Girl,
Fish, Josh, chair, teeth, know (song), car, bucket, Gritts, Moon, J.J. (our neighbor's name), Sooby (as in Scooby-Doo, sounds
like scoo), Cold, Wet, Broccoli, Close, Happy, Poo-Poo, Pee Pee, Plane, Come, Cut, Church, Natalie (sounds like Na), Melon,
1,2,5 (yes, in that order), Spoon, Fork, Scoop
6/08: Vacuum, Peas, Bib, Lid, Sky, Star, Big, Money, Baby, Nana, Pool. Too many words to keep up with now.
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