The Eagle has landed...

Well, the placement was delayed a couple of hours (go figure), so we did not get Micah until about 5:30. We got to talk with the foster mom about his daily routine and get information about David (his given name, we are going to change his name to Micah David). Emily and I very much got the sense that Micah was one of her favorites, and it was a hard thing for her to walk away from him. She was concerned about getting pictures of him from time to time as the last adoptive family promised to send pictures, but never did. After we finished the Q&A, we took Micah to the other side of the lobby as his foster family left. It was a very emotional time for all.

For the next couple of hours we played, had dinner, and played some more. Micah is a very outgoing kid, as stated by his foster mom. He loved the musical keyboard that we had brought for him and danced the night away; he very much enjoyed pressing the buttons while waving his arms and swaying his head to the music. Micah also loved his cars and wooden blocks. He would push his cars around the floor with lots of vroom, vrooms and beep, beeps. Everything was going well until we took off his shoes to get ready for bed. What happened next is what me friend refers to as a Total Child Meltdown (TCM). We do not know why, but he cried for a long while. Then as quickly as he started, he was done! We slowly wound down towards bed while playing with his favorite red car. As we speak he is sleeping and I am watching the Tech/OSU game in Spanish. Talk to you guys later.

Kyle

PS-The pictures. There are a couple of him playing before the TCM mentioned before and one of us with the foster mom and her family.