It didn’t hit us the first day. We thought we had possibly escaped the clutches of jet lag. Kim tried to keep us busy during the day so that we could sleep at night, you know, like normal people. But jet lag has sunk its angry claws into Team Sublett with a fury.
We had the pleasure of Aunt Manda (plus Jess and Caleb) for Friday and Saturday. Aunt Manda is a wonder! She likes to present herself as a toughie, preferring sarcasm with a touch of snark to tears of tenderness. But she has no defense against my children, and she often finds herself reaching for a tissue as she talks with (or about) the PA cousins. Methinks she is getting soft…
Team Sublett (with the Durham Subletts in tow) rolled out to the local skating rink Friday night, where our dear friends the Eveleths met us. Becky and Kim are very different women, but they share a heart for adoption. Mark and Becky are raising a family to radically love Jesus, and we love every opportunity we have to get together with them. All of us had fun skating. Isaac was flying around the rink on his rented blades, and Annabelle made some good progress. She and Sadie were on quads–they’re old school like that, you know. And after being thwarted by the Claw machine in the park at Guangzhou, Levi got back on his game, successfully liberating two stuffed toys for the girls from the machine at Penn Skates.
Church was great yesterday. I took Isaac with me, Levi, and Josie to help set up early. It’s good to see him jumping in and getting involved in our daily life. School resumed for the children today, while Kim and I took Isaac to the doctor’s office to get him thoroughly inspected. We’re a little concerned about his age vs his height and weight. He’s little. And by little, I mean 1st percentile in height, 6th percentile in weight. He’s in the 50th % for an 11 year old. We might do a little more checking (bone scan) to see what else we can learn/discern about his age. We know that the official Chinese documents list him as 14, but he sure seems younger.
Jet lag has us all sleeping (and waking) at goofy hours. We’re getting closer to back on USA time, but if you stop by during the evening, you’ll probably find some of us crashed on a couch, possibly snoring or drooling. Isaac is fitting in quite nicely, and we are absolutely thrilled with how things are going.
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Vea · November 8, 2011 at 3:16 pm
glad to see all is well, especially to know “Aunt Manda” maybe a real softy at heart…LOL My son loves her at preschool!!