8 Month Anniversary

This week will be the 8th month anniversary of the day we received Kai into our family. Our official "Adoption Day" was September 19th, but we were able to meet Kai and take him with us on the 18th which fittingly was Moon Festival in China. It's been an amazing 8 months. Having been with Kai every day since he joined our family makes it hard to see just how much he has changed in this time; partly because the beautiful spark of who he is has not changed since we met him. But for those first few days together in China he was a very frightened little boy going through an amazingly challenging time. Over these last 8 months two things have gone on with Kai, one is that he has grown and developed and learned, just as any three-year-old does. The other thing though is that he has become a member of our family, and has opened up and shared who he is (and already was) more and more with us.

I have put together a little video montage of photographs of Kai that span the time from just before we traveled to get him until just a few days ago. I think you can see quite a transformation in him...