a poo update

just wanted to let everyone know that my wonderful wife, and now the families chief pooper scooper, successfully delivered sinclair's poop in a tube to the lab on monday. now we wait for the results to see if sinclair has parasites.

maybe anita can get a spot on the tv show 'dirty jobs'. that would be cool.

there's poo in my fridge!

or alternatively titled... "why scrubs really is like real life"

if you have not seen the above mentioned video, then stop reading, scroll down, watch the video, and then resume. otherwise this post will make a whole lot less sense and your thoughts (or concerns) about me might be validated.

so...anita took sinclair to the doctor for her one year check up earlier this week. all in all it went not so well for sinclair as drawing blood and sitting for a long time was hard for her to handle. after the inital check up was done, dr. wu asked anita (i wasn't present, so i do not have to help in this) to obtain a 3, count them 3 stool samples from sinclair so they can check for parasites. the only thing they gave us was several small tubes and a plastic bag. if i was there i would have also requested a haz mat suit and a large pair of tongs.


so...'since everything comes down to poo'.. sinclair has "pinched us off a big fat clue" and we now have several plastic tubes filled with poo and some sort of liquid. i have no idea how the poo got there (a plastic spoon perhaps?) and the truth is i don't want to know.





all i know is that there is poo right next to my lemon juice and very close to the milk i love to drink late at night.

perhaps i will only eat food from the pantry until the poo is removed and the fridge has been tented, fumigagted, cleansed, and de-germed.

go 'dores!

huh, what's that you say...go 'dores? but matt, we thought you were a tennessee volunteer fan? what's up with the love to nashville crew and not the knoxville one?

well, here is the skinny. the vanderbilt commodores are now 5-0 after beating a very good auburn team that beat a very mediocre tennessee team last week. this is the first time since wwII that vanderbilt has been 5-0 and they just might crack the top 10 in the next couple of weeks if things keep going this way.

i'm still a big vol fan and i'm not jumping on (or off the bandwagon), however... the smart kids who have some real game deserve some real props. and for my step-mom who never lost the faith...enjoy the clip.

http://sports.espn.go.com/broadband/video/videopage?categoryId=2378529&brand=null&videoId=3626045&n8pe6c=2

motivation

today, just not feeling it. not sure why and not really sure as to how to keep pushing forward. the desire for results is there, but the motivation to get to those results is not. maybe i just need to pick up the stupid phone and start making calls, or get off my rear-end and do something, anything.

then again maybe i need to laugh.

check out this site...http://despair.com/viewall.html.

read a few, laugh, be motivated, and get something done...anything. it'll make you feel better. trust me.



here is one i have not seen before...

why i like the tv show scrubs...

since we don't have cable and rabbit ears don't work in socal, we watch all tv shows on dvd via netflix. now i know that quite a few of you have seen this, but for those who have not, this is awesome.

hey it's good to be back home again...

yes, this is a direct reference to john denver, thanks for noticing :).

i am sitting here at 8:20am at the table with elijah on my left eating honey nut cheerios and sinclair on my right sitting in her booster seat playing with her stack em' cups. everyone else is still asleep; all in all very cool.

even though the transition back to pacific standard time has been somewhat tough on us all and i had to go back to work, it is really good to be home. i tell everyone that even though sinclair has been with us less than 2 weeks, it seems like she has been part of our family her whole ten months. that is something only God can work out and that has made this whole adoption really awesome.

so today we are off to dance class, buying cleats and a new baseball glove for brevin, house cleaning, paying some bills, and trying to fix the garbage disposal. i might even get a chance to see some college football on espn.com.

it is good to be home...

coming home...

well, tomorrow is the day that we are leaving china for home. part of me is excited and ready, although there is a large part of me that is somewhat sad to be leaving.

i'm not totally sure why. it could be that i like having someone else making all my meals and cleaning up after them, or having someone else do all my laundry and make my bed and clean my room and bathroom. or it could be that i have had one of the most exciting, wonderful, and eye-opening experiences in my short 35 years (oops, 36 now).

i am fairly certain that i could not capture all that i have seen, felt, or experienced in the short space that this blog allows, so i thought i would add some of the pictures that on some level capture what we have been blessed to experience.

enjoy...

me getting ready to leave lax for seoul, korea...

chinese people think we are so cool, i think...i hope...maybe we are more like a side show?

yup, that's a standard toilet for onesies and twosies...i looked for the sit down kind or waited till we got back to the hotel.

standard kitchen in the local nanchang village

good friends...now even better