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Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Happy Family Day
Today is my Dad's Birthday and the day that we met Anant one year ago at BSSK. So much has changed! Some things are the
same. As I watched him eat Lunch (mess!) I thought, yeah, still very messy. But its not from lack of skill now, its because
he's "cooking". Making chapati, eggs, chopping onions etc. Wonder where he learns that? I'm uploading a picture of him today
at Lunch. His language skills are excellent. He talks all the time. Recently he has figured out the difference between girls
and boys. A few weeks ago he called everyone girls. Now, we'll be in the car and he'll be talking to me saying "Aunt Premila
is a girl?", "Joey is a boy". Half asking and half making a statement. He wants me to confirm that he is understanding this
now. So cute. Also the past few months Anant would ask questions about his friends like "what's _____'s Momma's name?" Even
a friend who came to do some work on the house when I talked about Nelson coming to fix some things here he said "what's Mr.
Nelson's Momma's name". So cute how he thinks aobut others this way. Also lately he projects things on others that he is experiencing.
Today he was dry all day after Bible study. Then, Mommy's fault for not toileting him before we left, on the way home at 9pm
tonight he wet his underwear. He said "Sophie is in her bed crying because she pee-peed in her underwear...it was an accident".
"Suah is watching Lilo with her Momma".
I digressed. We had a Bible study today about being thankful and not forgetting what God has done in the past. I've given
in to complaining and forgetting that God is good after my Mom's cancer had come back. But, just looking at Anant should remind
me of how God has been so good to us, giving us more than we could ask or imagine. What a sweet boy. Then, these past months
there have been many who have offered and watched Anant while I go to and from Delaware.
I did let Anant see his Lilo and Stitch movie today after his nap. He LOVES this movie. It has adoption themes through
it and it was given to us by Anant's Aunt Deborah. My favorite quote is said by the alien Stitch "This is my family, its little
and its broken, but its good, yeah, its good". Isn't that that the way our families are? There are always "issues".
We had an Indian Dinner and talked with Anant about those first days. How he wouldn't come to me and was afraid of me.
What a change. He is now attached to my hip. Of course I do spend a lot of time with him. We ended up going out and buying
another car (Rob was rear ended and the geo prism was totalled). We got a Toyota Sienna. The right one that was in our price
range came up. It had just come into the dealership and hadn't been checked or detailed yet but Michelle at Car Vision got
it done (we actually had to wait for a little while while the service dept finished an allignment on it). We ate pop corn,
hot chocolate and played tag while we waited. Anant particularly liked sitting in a Mercedes. It was so cute. He had a blast
and after all the running he did I hope he will sleep well tonight. He loved the open space in the dealership for running.
Anant understands that "Daddy's car" has too many boo-boos so we had to get another car. The geo has been named by Anant as
Rob's car and the Rav 4 is Anant's car. He sometimes gets upset if he has to ride in the geo.
So, after about 2 1/2 hours and 1 1/2 hours past Anant's bedtime we got home. There are currently 4 cars that we have
at our house. The rental from the insurance company of the people who hit Rob, the geo (not for long it will be gone tomorrow),
the Rav and the Sienna! Craziness!
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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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