4 months later, the story of Little Guy

I think Little Guy is starting to have real progress. He has been in the family for four months.
It has not been easy. At all. But love conquers all.
The most amazing thing happened at Kindergarten yesterday. We dropped off the kids and

Going to School in the Artic

unbundled them. The lead teacher comes running out in the hall. Ms. Lead teacher that previously said that Little Guy was fated not to remain at school. Ms. Lead teacher that in October only decided that he could continue to go to school because she likes Princess.
She says "wait a moment". We are thinking, oh, no if she was going to kick him out of school, couldn't she tell us before we took all his coats and gear off? She is talking very fast in Chinese and is very sincere. I caught the general idea as "Not Princess, ping-pong Little Guy" We assumed he had committed his final act of trouble with the ping-pong paddle and Princess could stay at school and he needed to go. So I told her that we were going back to USA on Dec 31. Her eyes started welling up. She left us in the hall and came back with her calendar and the good English teacher. The good English teacher shocked the mittens off of us. Little Guy has been "selected" for ping-pong. He is getting free ping-pong lessons, not Princess. This is a great honor. I have had a former child ping-pong star in my class at the university and he is revered as king at the university. You can just say his name and people just gasp in happiness.

Likes to make music at school

So to be selected for ping-pong lessons by the kindergarten ping-pong master is a tremendous opportunity.
Cheers to the ayi who has beared with us during this time. I am amazed in her tender care and incredible patience with our family.

Ayi ties on scarf (made by Teenager too) -18C

In the beginning Little Guy wanted nothing to do with her or her cooking.

But even so, she has done what she can to help with him. In the store last week he had a throw down over not getting ultraman shoes when we were boot shopping. The store people and crowd were, as usual, offering awful advice or rude comments.

Look at the patience in the ayi's eyes during the shoe shopping tantrum

She just ignored them and helped us get the boots we needed while enduring his fit.
And Little Guy is quite a trooper having 2 sisters that like to dress him up.

Hat by Teenager

Teenager has gone to town with that yarn and

Hat by Teenager

pumped out a hat a day!
We are all happy that they are making the ice rink

Making the ice rink!!!

at the soccer field. They painfully spray water on the field and level it. It should be ready this weekend!

4 months later, the story of Little Guy

Harbin, China