20 months and going strong...

We actually passed the 20 month milestone without much excitement, but it's been some nice weeks.

Our main excitement was our retreat/day off / meeting in a week ago. It was a lot of fun and we were both fairly cranky in coming back. It was just really nice to have a few days all together, with no cooking or cleaning, in places that were new to us. The Nantou pictures are up, and I will try to do Taizhong this week.

Sam is really a charmer. We stopped by the Taizhong library and he made friends, we went to the park and he made friends, we walked through the hotel lounge... He's a very charming guy. His newest trick is kiss-blowing, which he does whenever saying goodbye. Whenever we go to dinner at the cafeteria, he talks someone into playing with him. He enjoys turning the lights on and off, walking up and down ramps, and playing the piano. If you try to play with him, he will move your hands away.

He stills says "car" a lot and seems to be adding other words, especially "go!" We've heard "yellow" at least once and we think he's said some Chinese words: xie[xie] (thanks), kai (open), etc. His Chinese teacher wrote that he allowed her to feed him this week, which made her ecstatic ("this is progress!") but just made us giggle. I know Sam's behavior is often culturally transgressive (eating with your hands, crawling on the floor, etc.), and yet he is such a happy kid.

I know I need to get back into the blogging groove. Hopefully I'll do so here soon...