The visit went so well!\u00a0<\/p>\n
The countryside was amazing.\u00a0 Red earth.\u00a0 Water Buffalo.\u00a0 Rice Paddies.\u00a0 Hillside Family Tombs.\u00a0<\/p>\n
We went straight to the orphanage which is now only used as offices.\u00a0 The foster Grandmother met us in the parking lot.\u00a0 She so badly just wanted to touch him.\u00a0 Her eyes were aboslutely saoking in every inch of him. He curled into me and his little legs clung to my trunk under the carrier I had him in.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The two staff ladies ushered us upstairs to the director’s office for tea and a short visit.\u00a0 We began sharing information back and forth through our guide.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She had given us 3 photos of him as an 8 and 12 month old.\u00a0 Bathing, feeding, holding him.\u00a0 Treasures!\u00a0 He was so delighted to see them.\u00a0 He kept kissing them and saying, “Beibei Xiao Ba!”.\u00a0<\/p>\n
We gave her a sheet of photos (our family, his referral photo – which we hear he was betweenb 5 and 6 months old in, and an update we received).\u00a0 We also gave the grandfather a gift.<\/p>\n
Then we were invited to their home which was a short distance away.\u00a0 We were served snacks, tea and allowed to take photos around their home.<\/p>\n
The child they described was absolutely our Samuel.\u00a0 LOVES peanuts, splashing in the bath tub, motor vehicles, very affectionate.\u00a0 The grandfather rides a motorcycle and Samuel always knew when he was on his way home and Samuel could tell it was him!\u00a0 They chuckled at how he splash es gets us soaked during bathtime.\u00a0 They shed some discreet tears.\u00a0 It was absolutely beautiful.<\/p>\n
Then we were taken a short ways by foot to see some friends and they were delighted to see his growth and strength!\u00a0 We enjoyed our time threre.\u00a0 Samuel began warming up a bit, but Stephen held him out of the carrier.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0ggngngnngggg\u00a0 (Samuel’s blogging help)<\/address>\n<\/address>\n<\/address>\nWe then took everyone out for lunch (15 people fr $50 and a tonne left over).\u00a0 Samuel gets car sick and after 2.5 hr drive, snacks, stress, heat as we had him bundled Chinese style out of courtesy, and then a bit of spicy food that required lots of rice and water to douse, he promptly threw up what seemed to be 1\/2\u00a0a litre.\u00a0 Poor baby.\u00a0 He was so ashamed.\u00a0 You could see it.\u00a0 We snuggled him and reassured him.\u00a0 We took him to the wash basin and cleaned him up.\u00a0 He began to feel better and really started to perk up.<\/address>\n\u00a0<\/address>\nWe then said our thanks, again and he stayed in my arms, but gave hugs and kisses to his foster grandparents.\u00a0 We were able to share some of the care and possible prosthetics we hope to get him in Canada. We were worried about making it seem as though we thought their care was not good enough, but they seemed happy to hear about it all.\u00a0 <\/address>\n\u00a0<\/address>\nWe then all got back on the bus and stopped at the finding spot.\u00a0 Photos and then I set Samuel down on the ground.\u00a0 I wanted him to show them how he could move, but I wasn’t sure what he would do.\u00a0 He bolted for the bus.\u00a0 Much shouts of joy and laughter.\u00a0 I was so glad.\u00a0 He was giggling a bit.\u00a0 I was a good moment to end on.\u00a0 <\/address>\n\u00a0<\/address>\nMany kisses were blown and they gathered around the bus door as we drove away.\u00a0 <\/address>\n\u00a0<\/address>\nWhat an incredible day.\u00a0 We all slept well last night!\u00a0 And the best part?\u00a0 Samuel clung to us, came to us, we could comfort him when he was sick, we took tonnes of photos and we saw and shared so much of what he was and still is.\u00a0 <\/address>\n\u00a0<\/address>\nGod is good.\u00a0 <\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The visit went so well!\u00a0 The countryside was amazing.\u00a0 Red earth.\u00a0 Water Buffalo.\u00a0 Rice Paddies.\u00a0 Hillside Family Tombs.\u00a0 We went straight to the orphanage which is now only used as offices.\u00a0 The foster Grandmother met us in the parking lot.\u00a0 She so badly just wanted to touch him.\u00a0 Her eyes were aboslutely saoking in every […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,44,29,1],"tags":[63,41,66],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1400"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1919,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions\/1919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}