John started filling a bit unwell on Sunday. Had a temp, so we kept him home on Monday. I stayed home in the morning, and Rhonda came up around lunch. He was feeling better yesterday. Monday night though he had woke up around 11 crying, I gave him some Motrin and he went back to sleep. Rhonda said that yesterday they both a bit of diarrhea, and this morning, John had a particularly messy diaper, he took off his jammie bottoms in my bedroom and... well, you don't want to hear anymore. A little stuff on the carpet, on the wall, on him,.... yuck.
Orientation for the MSSE program is this evening. The kids will stay at Sue's house. John said he didn't feel well, so not sure if he is still a little sick. He got some amoxycillin for his ear infection, maybe that's been affecting him to.
We got a Candyland game from somewhere for the computer, John really likes it. It has neat graphics and sound and music. When we're done, he often wants to get down the board game then and fiddle with that.
I had mentioned the other day that when John went to Jessica's house they must have called him "Jonathan". A couple of times now he'll say "I'm not Jonathan, you're Daddythan!" or "You're Mommythan". He's clever.
Rhonda went to the mom's group at the adoption agency on Monday. Always sounds interesting, they talk about all kinds of things, issues that the kids can face. Lately they've been talking about shame, how the kids, while they may not be consciously aware of it, have these doubts inside that maybe they aren't adequate, because they've been abandonded, etc... So, this affects their behavior. I think we've seen that in some things with John and Hanna. I think overall they both are doing so well, we certainly haven't had the big problems that other parents have. But, still, it's something we have to be aware of, we try not to put things in terms of "well, you should know better than that" as things like that kinda attack their sense of worthlessness. We try to help them succeed, to look for different ways of doing things. Certainly one of the things that help make confidant kids is simply interacting with parents, and I've always thought well, that's something I can do. I can spend every minute with them that I can. So other than just enjoying them, that's a reason I try not to get busy with other things, so I can be with them, and help them with this continuing process of adjusting from their orphanage beginnings to feeling secure in their family now.
When Hanna acts out, it's usually in a way that seeks to control things. True, some of it must be just normal two-year-old stuff as she becomes more independant (she's much more insistent about "let me do this by myself" than John has been), but whether it's a test to see if we're really going to take care of her and not abandon her, or a way to make her surroundings less scary, or what, she'll do things like not let John get one-on-one attention sometimes. Or, when reading books I'll read a page and then she'll take the book and look at it herself. Most of the time, she is a happy sweetheart little girl, just have to keep reassuring her.
Orientation for the MSSE program is this evening. The kids will stay at Sue's house. John said he didn't feel well, so not sure if he is still a little sick. He got some amoxycillin for his ear infection, maybe that's been affecting him to.
We got a Candyland game from somewhere for the computer, John really likes it. It has neat graphics and sound and music. When we're done, he often wants to get down the board game then and fiddle with that.
I had mentioned the other day that when John went to Jessica's house they must have called him "Jonathan". A couple of times now he'll say "I'm not Jonathan, you're Daddythan!" or "You're Mommythan". He's clever.
Rhonda went to the mom's group at the adoption agency on Monday. Always sounds interesting, they talk about all kinds of things, issues that the kids can face. Lately they've been talking about shame, how the kids, while they may not be consciously aware of it, have these doubts inside that maybe they aren't adequate, because they've been abandonded, etc... So, this affects their behavior. I think we've seen that in some things with John and Hanna. I think overall they both are doing so well, we certainly haven't had the big problems that other parents have. But, still, it's something we have to be aware of, we try not to put things in terms of "well, you should know better than that" as things like that kinda attack their sense of worthlessness. We try to help them succeed, to look for different ways of doing things. Certainly one of the things that help make confidant kids is simply interacting with parents, and I've always thought well, that's something I can do. I can spend every minute with them that I can. So other than just enjoying them, that's a reason I try not to get busy with other things, so I can be with them, and help them with this continuing process of adjusting from their orphanage beginnings to feeling secure in their family now.
When Hanna acts out, it's usually in a way that seeks to control things. True, some of it must be just normal two-year-old stuff as she becomes more independant (she's much more insistent about "let me do this by myself" than John has been), but whether it's a test to see if we're really going to take care of her and not abandon her, or a way to make her surroundings less scary, or what, she'll do things like not let John get one-on-one attention sometimes. Or, when reading books I'll read a page and then she'll take the book and look at it herself. Most of the time, she is a happy sweetheart little girl, just have to keep reassuring her.
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