What's Next??

We are busy looking around trying to get things ironed out for what we are going to do with Coy this fall. Stacey has called every pre-school in southern Indiana. We think we have one that we will be satisfied with but time will tell. We are actually on the waiting list but we are the first one on the waiting list. We are hopeful that we will get in. It is one that Caleb actually went to when he was about Coy's age.

Stacey is going to be teaching during the day time beginning this fall. This will require that Coy have some sort of child care for about 4 hours on Mondays and Wednesdays. Not the end of the world obviously, because lots of children go to daycare.

Going back to work went fine. Most of my projects were in pretty good shape. Lots of folks at work had been following the blog and were genuinely interested in hearing the details of our story.

We haven't heard back from the pediatrician about the results of Coy's tests and we haven't heard back from the plastic surgeon to confirm Coy's surgery date. We have however, heard lots of good stories about the plastic surgeon that will do his surgery. That makes us feel better. Lots of people have commented on how well his surgery already looks and they are right. The results of his first surgery don't look bad now and his lip looks pretty good. But he does need to have his pallete repaired for his speech development.

Coy's understanding of what we are saying is increasing by leaps and bounds. He understands lots of phrases. We also understand several of his hand motions when he wants us to do things. We try very hard to have him verbalize what it is he wants or is trying to get across. Don't get us wrong, he is a very verbal little boy, it's just that we have no clue what he is trying to say and whether or not it is in poor English or in Russian. We are trying to encourage his English development so that we will have a better understanding of exactly how much help he needs so that we can find that help for him.