On our turf!

(Just so you know, I had to try to type the word "turf" 3 times before I got it right)

Ok, so hellloooo there! Although it is early afternoon, we have been up and at em since 6am! We had to go out and do a "kid friendly" grocery shopping trip so we could feed Isaiah when he came over today. So yes, we will again be settling in for an afternoon nap.

Isaiah came over today about 10am. He was dressed in Red Sox gear!!! although I don't really think he knows them from any other team. But he has told us numerous times that he likes baseball! He was shy today, but not to Gabe. In fact he came into the house and hid behind Gabe from me. This is progress. We all settled into the living room and he ran back and forth from the kitchen to the front door...not quite ready to come in and get settled. He eyeballed JP a little bit.
He spotted some bananas and asked for one. Gabe gave him half, he inhaled it and asked for the other half. Gabe gave him that, he ate it and asked for more. Um, no. He didn't like that so we distracted him and went upstairs to play in "his" room. He settled right in and played with the moon Sand Barbie had brought over. Um, it is blue. And sand. You can imagine what our tan carpet now looks like. Actually it came up fine but we smiled knowing that my mom would LOVE to know he played with her toy...and made a mess for me to clean up all at the same time.
He made us all pizza with the moon sand and came over and brought pieces to Gabe, me and JP, repeatedly.
Then we moved onto blocks. He got a little agressive with the blocks. He made a house, Gabe made a house and he wanted to "break Gabe's house". After he was not redirected, he ended up in time out, which he accepted easily. He watched me like a HAWK as I cleaned up the blue sand while he was in time out. We found out why later. Why he is always watching me sooo closely. We'll get to that.
So we cleaned up the blocks, creatively, as fast as we can and we moved on. He went to the bathroom on his own on the big toilet and was so happy to have done so. We bought a step stool for him to climb up onto the toilet and to the sink for his hands and he loved his step stool. He moved it all over the bathroom to use it and then put it back in it's place. He also told us that he "farted".
As we sat down to have lunch, hot dogs, I gave him a plastic placemat to put his stuff on. This is an old school placemat that my grandpa made for me when I was a kid. On it was a picture of me when I was younger in front of my birthday cake. Isaiah looked at it, pointed to me and said something about his mommy. I asked him if that looks like his mommy and he said yes. His adoption worker then confirmed that I have a strong resemblance to his mother. Well no wonder he is trying so hard to figure me out! Makes sense.
We had hot dogs and gold fish and juice for lunch. He wanted another hot dog, of course, but instead he got a dessert of banana yogurt. He loved it and said please and thank you for everything. He also put his foot on my knee under the table and rubbed it around, smiling at me. LOL, he is getting comfy here.
At the end of the visit, he didn't want to leave. (that's a good sign, right). We promised he could come back and play with us again. He walked out to the car and kept turning around to see if we were there, waving at us. He really didn't seem to want to leave.
Tomorrow we process all this, make a list of questions for DCF on Monday and, as long as they have good answers to those questions, prepare for an overnight Monday night.

Until then...