10 Months Old & Home for 4 Months!

Today is Caleb's 10 month birthday! I can hardly believe that he is 10 months old and that he will be a year old in just a couple short months. The time has flown by and I'm already feeling sad that he won't be a baby for much longer. Yesterday also marked 4 months since we carried our Precious Boy out of his orphanage. Boy has he changed since then! The tiny, weak baby that screamed until his face turned bright red while we drove to Almaty is a thing of the past... we are now so blessed by days filled with smiling, playing, learning new things and giggling.

Over the past week Caleb has started doing several new things. He clapped with open palms for the first time during the Super Bowl! He now claps when he likes something and it has been so fun to discover his favorite things. While at my parent's house last week Caleb fell in love with the "Neighborhood Animals" DVD by Baby Einstein. He is absolutely mesmorized by the animals on the DVD and definitely claps & jumps up and down for his favorites - the dogs & cats!

Last week Caleb also pulled himself to a standing position a few times while sitting on either my leg or my Mom's leg. He is defintely showing more signs that he wants to stand on his own so we are working on pulling up on our couch now that we are back at home in T-town.

Caleb had the Early Childhood Intervention people over to 'play' on Monday afternoon. It was great to see our nanny so engaged and interested in what the physical therapist was working on with him. The main focus of our session this time was working on crawling (even though Caleb shows little interest in doing this!) and in pulling up/ cruising around furniture. He is definitely more motivated to stand than he is to crawl!

We are blessed to have Caleb home with us and to see him thriving. My heart melted last night as we sat as a family at our Med School Bible Study. We were having praise & worship time and Caleb sat quietly on Bryan's knee watching the 2 guys playing guitar. Caleb started to clap gently to the music as we all sang. It was such a touching moment to have him there among so many friends who prayed for his health and his homecoming. Bryan and I both found ourselves with tears in our eyes as we watched our beautiful boy enjoy beautiful music. We are so thankful and so incredibly blessed.