Enabling Comments!

As of this post, I have now enabled comments on the blog. Anybody may leave comments, so please let me know you're out there. Initially, I will be moderating comments, which means I'll OK them before they appear. So, don't worry if there is a delay before your comment appears. Also, I've enabled a feature that should keep automated (spam) comments from being left.

Half Life

As of today, Evan has now spent half of his life with me...10 months and 4 days of it!!! So, Evan's orphanage* days will be in the minority forever more.

*It's not that I think Evan's orphanage experience was completely horrible (as I fear it is for many children). Evan seemed well cared for, he had no developmental delays, his height and weight were within norms, and he was healthy. Nevertheless, I'm glad he with me now!

If you don't eat your dinner, you won't get any...pickled radish!

This is not a phrase one hears often. Except in this house. Japanese food was for dinner so the Japanese pickles (tsukemono) were on the table. Just for fun, Evan got to try a piece of pickled daikon radish. They are pungent and slightly sweet and not really something kids should love. However, Evan really liked them - maybe because they are really crunchy. The rest of the meal was an exercise in bribing him to eat his regular dinner in exchange for bits of pickle (it worked). Evan was too full for dessert. Here is a picture I found online of tsukemono - the radishes are the yellow stuff.

Yesterday was Korean food and Evan liked the dried chewy-sweet baby anchovies.

By the way, we've flown to Denver and back since my previous post but I have not had a chance to tell that story in full. Of course, Evan did visit his buddy, Jackson, and they had a great time playing at the Children's Museum and at the amazing playground at the former Stapleton International Airport (closed when DIA a.k.a. West-Kansas International opened). Here they are: