SKYPE!!!

Amazing things...

Friend Lisa's baby M was rushed to Vandy Children's hospital Friday, where they discovered the six-week-old had a "little artery trouble." Risky surgery today went smashingly well, and hopefully, she'll be off the ventilator soon. We've logged some time in these last few days back & forth to visit, praying, running errands... we've decided all play dates from YoYo's arrival onward will be at Vandy Children's Hospital. It's where the cool kids hang out--where they go to see and be seen, as it were.

Then home again, lickety-split, to Skype our boy! The weather cooperated tonight--yesterday, heavy rain in China prohibited a connection--and we got to see and talk to our little guy in real time for the first time!!! He was pretty concerned about the dog in the house, as he had not been there before and the dog was about, so he kept murmuring, "Dog, dog," in Mandarin. We didn't rate as much attention. So, that sounds like normal parent stuff!

T suggests we try again tomorrow night, and then perhaps we can do this every night until we travel. Oh, my...

Oh--I may have started a mural in YoYo's room, too. You know, just to kill time.

List of things remaining until we travel:

• pick up YoYo's ostomy supplies
• pack
• buy a new suitcase (Tania told us he has "a lot of stuff")
• three showers (3 showers?!?!)
• order cabinets (oh yeah, there was a leak and damage to our home in this whole story, and yea! thanks to the Florians and the Smiths for taking our housekeys and rescuing us while we're gone)
• finish the room
• patch the roof
• YoYo's prescriptions
• last-minute paperwork
• finish 7 AP Art portfolios
• wrap the school year
• film our award ceremony remarks
• create a CD of student artwork for awards ceremony
• there's soooo much more
• about $ 5,000 to go!

Did I mention we heard his voice for the first time?! OH, there's PLENTY of baby-ness left in him. He is soooo yummy!