Six Months!!

So Saturday I posted that it has been five months since “Gotcha Day”.  Today, it’s been six months since we actually met timothy for the first time, in that little office at the orphanage with several other people watching.  You can read about that day HERE

I remember it so vividly.   He was so timid and small.  He wasn’t all that shy once he saw that I had cookies.  He is quite the eater!  Hehe   

When I look at him now, and think of that little boy that we met that first day, I barely see the similarities.  The little boy that is living here is stubborn, and smart, and sneaky (when he is trying to hide something from one of his siblings especially hehe), and affectionate, and outgoing, and loving, and ornery, and much louder I think.  LOL  He knows who we are, and has learned the rules, even if sometimes he chooses not to obey them (he’s five after all!).  He goes to school, and church.  He doesn’t take off his glasses and hide them three or four times a day anymore, we’re down to a couple of times a week now.  He laughs, and smiles, and picks on his younger sister.

Is it all sunshine and rainbows? NOPE!!  Have we decided that we made a mistake bringing him home? NOPE!!  There are days when I want to hang him on a hook just so I know he will stay out of trouble for a few minutes.  There are days when he wakes up at 5am that I would LOVE to give him a dose of Benadryl so he’d go back to bed so I could sleep in a bit longer.  The boy is raw energy.  He literally hits the ground running and I am SO NOT a morning person!  LOL 

Ya know what though?  I love him even more than that first day in that little office.   Not a day goes by that one or another of my kids amaze me.  God has blessed me more than I ever would have imagined.  If anyone had told me when I was younger where my life would lead me, I am sure I would have laughed hysterically. 

I am one blessed Mom.