Sometimes it's hard not to say anything...

We were sitting in the stands at one of Syd's MANY hockey games this week when I overheard a family teasing their son who looked about 4.  Now I didn't hear the beginning of the "fun" so I'm not sure what started the conversation.

Dad:   You must be adopted.

 

Mom: Yeah, we just found you on the side of the road 

           wrapped up in a blanket.

 

Dad:   Yep, right on the side of the road.  

           Just left there.  

           Nobody wanted you.

 

 

After they saw me looking at them in, not a friendly way, 

they stopped "teasing" their son.

  

Maybe they thought I was bitch for listening in 

and giving them the evil eye.

 

Maybe they saw the cute little Chinese boy sitting on my lap and realized that the 2 red heads can't possibly be his "real" parents.

 

Maybe they just didn't realize that what they were

 saying was just not nice.

 

Or maybe I'm reading into the whole thing too much.

I'm sure when people make comments like that just don't realize that the kid sitting next to them may have been left wrapped in a blanket on the steps to a police station on a spring day in March.

Or that his big sister may have been left wrapped in a blanket, 

in a cardboard box at the entrance to a market on a cold January day.

I'm so glad that Syd wasn't sitting there because that would have hurt her so much to hear people joking about what her reality is.  I'm glad that Alex is too little to understand what they were saying.  

I know that I could have treated this as a learning experience for the family and gently explained to them why their comments could be hurtful.  But I was so mad that I wouldn't have been nice or gentle and I probably would have cried because I cry when I'm really mad.  

 

So maybe it was better that I said nothing at all.

Doh Doh for P.T...

Alex has been doing great with physical therapy.
He's getting stronger, actually walking heel to toe with his toes spread out
instead of curled under his feet.
He gets new exercises every week and his newest one involves play doh.
So I looked up how to make the home made version.

and fun was had by all.


I think.
When I ask him to smile,
this is what I get.
Sigh...


This is what he really looks like when he's having fun.

And here he is doing his exercise,
squishing his toes only in the dough.
Not as easy at it sounds but he loves it.


I wish exercise was just play for me too,
I might do it more often :-)

Easter eggs and an experiment...

This is Alex's first year to decorate Easter eggs and he just went at it with markers :-)
The dye took forever to color and there's no way he would have sat that long but Syd had a great time with daddy!
The experiment is posting this thru e mail.
I want to make sure I'll be able to post from China this summer.
It seems to have worked :-)