DSDW Day

Last night, Tut fell asleep around 7:30pm and only fully woke up once for a bottle around midnight. He cried a bit, but soon finished his bottle and fell asleep again. He partially woke up a couple of other times, but fell back to sleep soon. He didn't wake up until we woke him up around 7:30am. He kept checking on both of us during the night by moving from me to Robby and several times he would have his head by one of us and his foot on the other. :) He woke up crying and didn't really eat anything for breakfast other than a bottle later in the morning.

Today, no one was peed on or thrown up on, so that was an improvement. :) Other than that, it has been hard. We went to the DSDW meeting this morning. You have to wait in a big hall with lots of other families for your turn to be interviewed. We were there from 9am until about 11:30am and it was a long time. All the boys did pretty well at first, but then restlessness set in. Pat, the social worker with us, came prepared with some books and things and was good at distracting Tut for a while. By the time it was our turn, Tut was not happy to sit still with us. After a couple of minutes of trying to distract him and answer questions above his crying, the DSDW social worker took him out to the hall for us. The ladies were very nice and asked about our education plans, our families' experiences with adoption, why we were adopting so young, why from Thailand, etc. It wasn't very hard, but still nerve wracking. Then we had to wait for a bit longer until our paperwork was ready.

Tut did okay as long as someone was carrying him around, but he was too insecure to walk himself and he didn't want to sit still. It was pretty hot in that hallway, fortunately they had water stations to refill our water bottles.

We got a quick photo in front of the adoption board sign, but we had to get moving again before Tut started crying. He did fine in the car on the way back to the hotel, playing a bit. We went directly to the Mali restaurant to get some takeout. They completely messed up the order, but we ate it anyways. :) It tasted good! Once he was back in the hotel room, he cried again and only ate a bite of food or two before he was done. Robby sat with him and a bottle and got him to sleep, but it only lasted about 20 minutes.

Then we went back to Lumpini Park.

He was too scared to get down for long, but we tried to interest him in the swings and slides. He let Robby put him down briefly, but there was one small smile when he picked Tut back up.

He wasn't as distracted by the park today and fussed on the way back to the hotel. We tried to take him to the pool, but he wasn't interested. He basically cried on and off until he fell asleep sitting up in bed around 7pm. We didn't get as much playing out of him today, but he had a hard morning and barely any nap. Tomorrow morning we are going to Siam Ocean World, so hopefully that will tire him out. Then we have the embassy appointment on Friday. At least that long wait should be air conditioned.

The staff at the Pantip has been great! They really helped out when I was trying to entertain Tut in the lobby and outside since he does so badly in the room. 

Prayers are appreciated! Hopefully we will turn a corner soon!