Melissa | August 3, 2010
“How’s Ty doing?” –such a complicated question.
Mostly, people mean, “How is Ty adjusting?”
Adjustment, attachment, bonding–such complicated subjects.
After a couple days home, we were super-excited that we had left the constant, incosolable crying in Korea. After a couple months home, he was sleeping through the night, calling me “mom,” loving the older kids, and seemingly attached [...]
Melissa | April 26, 2010
Not-Me-Monday is a blog carnival started by MckMama. Hop over to her blog to see what others have NOT done this week.
I did NOT travel to the other side of the globe to pick up our third child, take hundreds of pictures, and only get one of our whole family of 5.
It did NOT [...]
Melissa | April 18, 2010
A year ago, we were on a plane to pick up Ty! Not sure how we did it, but we (all 6 of us) left 48 hours after receiving our travel call. I made this book as a Christmas present for my mom and mother-in-law.
Click here to view this photo book.
Melissa | March 24, 2010
At prayer time tonight…
Ty: Jesus, dank you I had… What’s dat called ‘gain, Mom?
Me: What is what called again?
Ty: Pich
Me: Pitch?
Ty: No, piiiich (pinching fingers together)
Me: Pinch?
Ty: No. Missue.
Me: Miss Sue?
Ty: Yah. Dank you ‘at Miss Sue today.
Me: Ooooooh. Speech. Is that what you were saying?
Ty: Yah. Dank you I had pee-sch today.
Less than a [...]
Melissa | January 6, 2010
As Ty picks up more grammar, phraseology, and vocabulary, we are becoming a bilingual family. Our second language is Ty-ese. While receptive and comprehensive abilities have made huge improvements (our therapists and specialists say they’ve never seen such a large jump in such a short period of time…then again, maybe because they’ve never worked with an [...]
Melissa | December 18, 2009
It’s official.
After a short but very sweet (like Ty-got-to-adopt-a-teddy-bear-from-the-judge’s-collection kind of sweet) hearing adoption ceremony,
Ty is officially no longer an orphan.
Ty is officially a tax deduction.
Ty is officially an American.
Ty is officially a Corkum.
We are officially a family of FIVE!
Melissa | December 9, 2009
Unlike the processes in many other foreign countries that allow children to be adopted into U.S. families, nothing legal happened while we were in Korea. I mean we didn’t do anything illegal. I just mean we didn’t appear before a judge, there was no courtroom, and no final adoption. We merely gained custody. Maybe the [...]
Melissa | November 3, 2009
When I returned home from my weekend away last week, Ty and Patrick were super-excited to show me that they had mastered “bagel” while I was away.
“So what?”
While Ty’s speech has come very far in the last 6 months, he struggles with poor enunciation. Being smart and strong-willed, he has figured out when we are [...]
Melissa | October 30, 2009
This morning I filed Ty’s finalization paperwork. For Korean adoptions, one does not adopt in country but Korea actually transfers guardianship to our agency. The actual legal adoption takes place about 6 months after placement. We had our last post placement visit yesterday which allowed us to file today. Now we just sit and pray [...]
Melissa | September 23, 2009
Ty has made amazing strides in the area of verbalization recently and we’re thrilled!
We are so thrilled that he can talk back and demand “Ty do” in any give situation. Not that we don’t want to foster independence. It’s just that it’s not always possible or convenient.
We are thrilled that he can announce (in the [...]
