Update Day!

Eventhough we are less than 3 weeks away from meeting Andrew in person, it's still a thrill to get new pictures and videos. Andrew is 5 months now and I think this set of photos and images may just give us a bit of a glimpse of his personality. I think in this first picture he looks like he has just stopped crying :(

I'm in love with this second photo. It's his first smile caught on film and I think I see a hint of a dimple on his right cheek.

I also love this last photo. Let's be honest, I'm his mom, I love all his pictures. Anyway, I think this is his first belly laugh caught on film. I like how the smile has reached his eyes :)

Finally, you must check out the video included. It's nice to see Andrew responding to whomever in the video. It could be his foster mom or it could be the workers at the orphanage. In either case, they seem to be not calling his name or saying "look" so aggressively in this video and Andrew seems more relaxed. I'm always listening to what they say to him in the videos. I think part of me is just interested in what "baby talk" sounds like in Mandarin. I also think part of me wants to be able to imitate it and perhaps sound somewhat familiar to him. I particularily like when the person says "guh-guh-guh--goohway." I have no idea if that's nonsense or means something in Mandarin, but if it gets me the big cheesey grin like the one in the video, I'll be saying it all the time!! Also, looks like as he slumps down in the video that we aren't really ready to sit up yet. I think I'm going to add one of those strange looking Boppy pillows to my shopping list. Oh, it's so fun to think that in less than one month we'll be a family of 4! Part of me thinks it'll never get here and part of me thinks it'll be here before I know it!