3,2,1

Here's the 411 on the 3,2,1. 

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Chu turned 3! In a home. With a family. He is wanted. He is loved! 

I've been praying for this sense his 2nd birthday. We received pre-approval to adopt him a year ago on his birthday.  

Do you know what is the best part? Our family is so so blessed to have him home! 

At 3 years old he is tiny. He wears 6-9 months clothes and size 1 diapers. 

The first thing everyone says is he's tinier then his pictures and he is. 

This bed is a tiny bit bigger then a twin and Chu makes it look like a queen. 

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We've had Chu for two weeks. 

He has said about 10 words. 

His newest words are bye, night night, and Mao. Which is mandarin for cat.

Speaking of cats he's still scared of them and any other animal. He points and says "Dat" at any animal. But he has a look on his face that's says, "Dat better stay away from me." (I have no clue if Dat is that or a mandarin word or jibberish but Dat is cute) :)

He's walking all over. He found me clear in my bathroom. No running yet. 

He is very front heavy and falls forward quite often. His poor little arms are like a newborns. He can not catch himself and face plants. Poor baby. 

He pushes things around. He pushed the rocking horse out of his room and climbed on it. He also climbed our stairs without help and he climbed a foot stool. 

Going down stairs hasn't been tried yet. 

He has gotten into mischief opening drawers. :) 

We see him do something new everyday and it's exciting! 

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He had his #1 doctors appointment. We will probably be going monthly to check his growth. 

We have learned that he probably has never eaten anything but watered down rice. (Not even formula) 

He has two perfectly round scars on his shoulder that I had hoped were Chickenpock scars but the Dr says they're burns. :( 

But he has gained weight!!! I don't think Chu has ever been above 14 pounds and he is now 15 pound 12 oz!!! 

We have also been home 1 week! 

Lydia and Chu are getting use to each other. We've had sweet moments like this one where Chu is letting Lydia give him a chin chin (kiss) and we've had not so sweet moments. 

Chu is jealous when I hold Lydia and that was a surprise! 

Lydia just doesn't like him touching her toys. 

Chu is doing remarkably well and he is a happy. We are very blessed! 

I don't want to undermine what little Chu is going through. 

He is Grieving, meaning crying for two hours with no consoling him.  This is very normal. It's very sad and it's also good. 

Please pray for his sweet little heart. 

And that we will be equipped to handle all this. We are very very tired and not getting much sleep. (One hour a night for the first 3 days) 

I'm also wishing that Vertigo would get off it's Vert and Go! ;) I'm very sick of being dizzy! 

Enough complaining! Our boy is home! And he's safe!