Week 1 Wrap-Up

Well, we are still here and some of you may be asking, "Where are the black holes?" "Where are the zombies?" It turns out this week's experiment was just a warm-up, a test fire to see if the old LHC is acting nicely. It turns out that the proton-melting collisions aren't scheduled until later this year, so we have a few more months until the singularities and self-propagating strangelets (aka zombie particles) turn our planet inside out. Until then, I'm going to blog about my son.

A few highlights of the week...no sleep for mom and dad, love the new booster car seat, mom and dad West came for a visit and Ty schmoozed his way onto a yacht.

Well, week one in the States was definitely a learning week for us. We had to really work on establishing a schedule for Ty and break him from some habits that got started while we were pent up in a hotel together for two weeks in China. Things like, we all don't go to sleep at the same time like we did in China, mommy and daddy need some alone time at the end of the day. So far this has eluded us but we are working on that. Most of the time if we can get him to sleep, one of us falls asleep in the process and it's lights out for mommy and daddy time.

Ty is still the picky little eater - American food just doesn't appeal to him. So we are stuck with hard boiled eggs, apple juice and ramen noodles; little dude kind of stinks.

Ty is really attaching to us - more Melissa than me - but he does seem to miss me when I go to work and he got pretty fired up when I was able to hang out all weekend. This is always a concern with adoptions, so the fact that he is bonding with us is key.

Ty loves his new booster seat for the car. He loves driving and he loves being able to see where we are going - the booster seat solves that problem for him, so he doesn't mind getting buckled in. This is in sharp contrast to China were getting to put on a belt took an act of congress. The bonus of the booster is that Ty has a tendency to fall asleep after 5 minutes in the seat. Works like a charm. Just tonight he was bouncing off the walls and driving Melissa crazy - so I took him out to the car and drove around on the interstate for a half hour. He was out like a light and Melissa got a bunch of stuff done around the house. By the time we got back he was ready for bed. Bingo!

Melissa's mom and dad came down this weekend for a visit. They brought tons of toys for Tyson; he was out of his mind with excitement. Melissa's dad got tot meet Tyson for the first time and we all went out to a local seafood joint on the water and watched the boats come in as we ate. Ty was fascinated and never failed to point out a boat going by - he didn't miss a single one. After dinner - well his dinner - he dragged dad out to the dock to look at the boats in the slip. Then he came in and dragged me out for a second look. He was so excited about a particular yacht that the owners invited him aboard and let him sit in the captains chair and play with the throttle. It was a lot of fun and Ty got to see run around pretty cool boat. Pretty cool for a kid who had never been outside his orphanage in China until three weeks ago.

Well, those are the highlights; I'll spare you the lowlights. They aren't that interesting. Until next time.