Today we received new measurements of Danny as of 3/31. He is almost 4 months old and is 13 lbs and 22 inches long. Since we received the last set of photos I have been concerned that his head seems huge. But based on the new measurements and discussion with some other families, his head is not any larger than the other babies around his age. It amazes me how excited I get when any info is provided! This waiting is so hard we will take any little bits of info!!
I am very excited that another family in our yahoo group received a court date!! It is really helpful to see progress in the courts even if it is not our case. This news is especially good because their baby is in the same county as ours and I was starting to wonder if Danny's case was getting held up by a back-logged county. This type of news give me hope and helps me stay positive!!
Care package #2 also got to Taiwan this week. Now our boy will have clothes from us that actually fit. (I am sure the clothes in care package 1 were probably too small by the time they got there!) This care package included a teddy bear Mp3 player (I stole this idea from a family in our yahoo group- thanks!)
The Mp3 player idea sounded really great and simple. We record ourselves singing songs or reading books so Danny will get to know our voices etc. In reality, it took much longer than expected and lots of help from Ed to get it done.
First, no microphone on the computer- Ed purchases... Getting the microphone working- seems simple.. The kids recorded songs and Ed and I read a few books. We get the files uploaded on the bear and... nothing happens. Luckily Ed was smart enough to know the files needed to be converted from wav to mp3 (and how to do this!).
We get the mp3 files uploaded and press play and hear.... about two seconds of a recording then NOTHING! We keep messing around with it, eventually concluded it was defective and we would return the bear. I decided to change the batteries as a last effort. AND IT WORKED!! (Then Ed suggested sending extra batteries)
Above is a photo of the care package stuff and one of Paige with the Bear. It's hard to see, but you press play on one foot, stop on the other, volume controls on the ears. It is pretty cool once it works!! I hope our voices in English don't scare Danny. I know if I sang he would have been scared!!
I had to laugh...our bear was quite the fiasco to get set up too. :) Tricky, but worth it when you think that our little babies might actually get used to our voices. :) Here's to COURT DATES this week!!
ReplyDeleteWhat cute outfits! I'm glad you got the bear to work. We recorded our voices to a cd and in the background of me reading Baby Beluga I can faintly hear my 5 year old chanting "Give me that filet of fish, give me that fish" from the McDonalds commercial.
ReplyDeleteI know Danny is much younger than Mia was when we adopted her but we recorded our voices singing to her and Kyan while they were in foster care and on Gotcha day she could sing the songs we sang to her on the CD. And Kyan was very drawn to us (at 7 months). I am SURE Danny will recognize your voices when you finally meet:)
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