A bit more of an update

I looked back at our update and it really didn't say how things have changed for us and Kole. So, here is what I had posted on our orphanage yahoo group.

Two years ago March 11 we met our son Kole for the first time in the same room with two other families. What a wonderful difference two years can make. He is a boy. All boy, who at times can be talked into wanting to be a princess by his two sisters and our exchange student. He loves his sisters you can tell and they love him too. I can tell by all the brotherly sisterly, "MOM Kole touched me! Make him stop!" and "Mom Kole won't stop looking at me!" LOL Or "Mom, um Kali, Kaci won't let me......." Or "Mom, can I watch something in there "(pointing to the spare tv and holding the remote). Apparently, Kole is not fond of Hannah Montana. He loves power rangers, Teenage Mutant turtles, Transformers, cars, big trucks, monster trucks and creating. He is fantastic with a piece of clay. He loves to draw pictures of Spongebob and monster trucks and race cars and people. He builds elaborate log cabins with Lincoln Logs and builds space men and rocket ships with legos. He loves to ride his bike and run and climb. He loves playing race car track with his dad and annoy his sisters. I look back at the list of things I knew about Kole then (he liked guns, pretending to smoke, running away, hitting, kicking, spitting, evil laughing, eating, watching tv) to now and WOW how he has changed. He is in a size 5 now and came to us in a 3T. He still has a huge appetite for chocolate which is limited. He won't have to have any cleft surgeries until he is between 7 and 9. His speech is clear with no nasal. He can do all the things a regular almost 6 year old can do and I think and then some. He is still learning right from wrong, but so were my other children at this age. He loves to be read to when anyone can find time. He wants to play football instead of basketball. He wants to run. Loves to fish and play with the dogs. Life is good. I know there are many who followed our journey and read our trials and tribulations along the way. But all in all life is great. We are done adding to our family by adoption and instead host foreign exchange students. Which is a very rewarding volunteer undertaking.