6 weeks home and 21 months old

How time flies. Jack had turned 19 months two days after our court date and here we are - another 2 months later. Things are going extremely well, except for a pesky parasite problem. Jack, like many other orphanage children in Russia, had Giardia, an intestinal parasite common even here in America. He's on a second round of antibiotics because his symptoms came back again. Unfortunately, David and I also have the bug and so we're all going to be on antibiotics together to prevent passing it around. I'm baffled how this happened with how vigilant I've been with washing but hopefully we'll be rid of it once and for all.

Jack has been picking up words all over the place, repeating them almost immediately. We were at the doctor's office when they gave him a sticker and he repeated the word almost perfectly. (He also did the sign for "thank you" and it looked like he was blowing them a kiss and it made them ooo and aaah over him - he's a playa) It's weird though, the more words he learns the more he forgets the first few. For example, he used to say Shoes all the time, but since learning how to say Socks, he doesn't say Shoes anymore. It's been fun watching him grow and learn and explore (though the exploring gets him into trouble sometimes... )

One more thing, Jack loves bath time and lately he loves to (for whatever reason) stick his mouth into the water. He then comes up and looks at daddy and does the sign for 'yummy' that he learned from my parents. (index finger pointing to the cheek dimple area and hand rotating back and forth). Here he came up with a beard full of bubbles after doing that. Silly....