"Gotcha Day" Monday, August 6, 2012

On arrival to meet Christian.....

A little teary eyed anticipating "the moment"...   I was handing out kleenex to  other moms! :)
P.S. Shekina thought this was funny! :)

We are thrilled to introduce you to Christian Joshua Yeo!  We are excited to share our joy and God’s leading  to our precious son and fun brother for Shekina!

Introducing..... (drum roll please.....)....Christian Joshua Yeo!!

After much prayer and anticipation, we finally met Christian yesterday afternoon.  He is a fun loving, active, curious, little mischievous :) and polite little boy.  As you see in the pictures, we gave him his new “Monkey in a House” and he seemed thrilled with it! :)  He loved throwing him and holding "Monkey" upside down by the tail! :)

Hmm..."What's inside?"

Here comes...the feet! :)

Pulling hard.....

Ta da!!!  Introducing..... "Monkey!" :)

Priceless expression! :)

It took him a while to feel comfortable to go the bathroom, but when he finally went – we realized he must have been like camel! :)  He drinks LOTS of water (yeah)! :)  Need I say more? :)

Understandably, it took him some time to get to sleep in a new environment but when he did settle down, he slept straight through the night and was the last one to wake up this  morning! :)  

Shekina is having lots of fun with him and neat to see her leadership skills emerge and she helps and teaches him! :)

Checking out height...seems older sister (by literally 10 days)  makes a difference! :)

Che-Che (pronounced "chay-chay") is "older sister" in Chinese.
Che-Che is helping Christian with his tie! :)

He is learning our names  (mommy, daddy and “Kina”) and we have him repeating various English words to begin the association process.   I started drawing the ABC’s today and singing the alphabet song and was shocked to learn he knew part of the song!  A few minutes later, he showed me his picture and he had written “ABCDEF”! :)  AWESOME!! :)

Back at the hotel playing "Rock, Paper, Scissors "- no language barriers here! :)

There are 2 other families who met their children yesterday as well.  When the guide asked them their favorite foods,  one nine-year old girl said “lollipops and jello".  Christian’s response was “vegetables, fish and noodles”!  That’s our boy!!! :)

We were out again today doing more paperwork and interviews with the Chinese Consulate.  Tomorrow AM, Christian has is medical and TB shot; in the afternoon we start the paperwork for his Chinese passport.

 The Yeo family has offically gone from a trio to a quartet! :)

Thank you all for your prayers, love and care through our journey.  We are soo grateful! :) 

Love and hugs,

Denny, Shirley, Shekina and Christian