Wow, Amy finally posted an entry! Tru does start daycare tomorrow, though it’s pretty low impact at first. He’ll be with my mom or sister every day next week. After that he’ll be with one or the other of them for two days a week and the other three days he’ll share an El Salvadoran nanny with the three kids across the street. Lydia has been a nanny to the neighbor kids for a couple of years now and she’s pretty cool. She also already knows Tru, and he kind of knows her. Anyway, we’re feeling pretty good about it all. He’ll only be in daycare for about 5 hours a day–not too bad, considering he’ll probably be napping for three of those hours!

We went to visit with Grandpa Gordon last week. We weren’t able to stay long since he had to go to his art class. But Grandpa enjoyed seeing Tru’s ‘hawk and he told us that way back in the day, he (Grandpa) paid his little brother 10¢ to let Grandpa shave his hair into a mohawk and then go downtown and buy a sucker. Grandpa was laughing as he remembered the story. When I asked if his brother was embarassed to go downtown with his mohawk, Grandpa laughed and said, “Aw, he didn’t care!” Grandpa also reminded me that my dad had a ‘hawk when he was a kid too. So Tru’s got plenty of precedent–the ‘hawk was nearly inevitable!

We snapped off a few pictures during Uncle Jeff’s stay and I’ve posted them on the album… Be sure to check out my current favorite!

Here’s Scott’s vision of Tru’s future…

BEHOLD!

Check the album for a couple more…

Heh heh heh. Tomorrow is our final post-adoption social worker visit! You know what that means…Tru’s got a haircut coming up!

I finally got around to prepping all the pictures I’ve been sitting on… There’s stuff from Amy’s folks’ visit, Tru’s birthday, the beach, various relatives and the Chinese Garden… Enjoy.

Tru’s picking up some new ways to communicate. He’s got signs for “more please”, “all done”, hello/good-bye and he blows kisses. We’re working on “thank you”. He still knows how to throw a fit, though, when none of the above apply…

Tru’s birthday party was pretty fun. We had it in a nearby park and lots of friends and family showed up to help celebrate. Tru was digging all the attention, not to mention the cake! He got shirtless and went to town on his own personal mini-cake that his grandma made specially for him. He didn’t get too crazy though, just frosting up to his elbows and on his face–a little bit in his hair. Of course we’ve got the full-on photo documentary, I just need to prep it for the album, but it should be up this week…

Yep, today is Tru’s first birthday! We’re going to have dinner for the family at our house, then we’re going down to the park to have a low-key celebration with friends. I’m still planning on the mohawk, but Amy has convinced me to wait until after our final post-adoption visit from our social worker… 🙂

We had a little pre-birthday thing at the beach yesterday. We went because yesterday was Tru’s birthday in Korea (time difference), and the beach is the closest place to where he was born. We had a good time, got lots of pictures of Tru getting crazy in the sand. I paddled out to get a couple of waves and while I was waiting said some prayers of thanks for the courage Tru’s birth mom had for not having an abortion and the strength she had to give him up for adoption. I also was thankful for the Korean foster mom who gave Tru so much love for the first six and half months of his life–I’m certain that her love and caring were vitally important to him. When we got home from the beach, we went out for dessert at Outback Steakhouse with my dad and his wife. They got Tru some presents and we had fun messing up the place…

Scott and Jen were up here recently, and even though we didn’t go to the beach with them, Scott was able to get this picture of Tru getting ready to paddle out. Thanks Scott!