October 2010

Two years ago today ..

.. at this time we were at the airport to Malpensa, to come to you, my great love.
It was a day like today, with the rain, but cooler than today. There were 13 and 37 degrees at the start to finish (and 15 in air).
We arrived at Malpensa airport for about 9.45.
We parked at a parking fee that eventually would have cost 101Euro.
We have taken all the time it took, calmly.
With that nice (so to speak) of check-in lady who made us remove the hand luggage.
We also had a coffee. We hugged like two
leaving for their honeymoon. And so we were actually
.
Dad and Mom were pictures of everything: air, the departures board ..
We were on another planet, of our own. What would become yours. It came
sms friends, Aunt Lucy, Aunt Laura, Roberta, Marzia, Camilla, Marina .. I kept them all.
But the silence of Cristina and Lamberto, our traveling companions, not even we wanted to write .. we were afraid to upset "their" time. Sometimes we would see after a few hours. And then
boarding, the trip to Paris, the fear of Dad in many air pockets and the happiness of her mother: father looks down there, you see our lake .. and dad was white as a sheet: "no thank you. "
And then the tail to Paris we had to also remove their shoes to pass the checks.
And then the last shopping for Emanuele: a ball of the Little Prince, a top and a small Little Prince.
And then a new board, to Bamako, to you, my love.

News ...

It is no longer a secret.
Maybe if TDM will give us a new eligibility for international adoption (but we have availability for the national team), there will come a "cuatellino" or sister (we hope). Retrieved from
www.leradicieleali.com, Forum section, My Diary Topic: Around the turn round.
http://leradicieleali.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10528&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

And one day, walking the walk to the lake of that lake that I love so much, watching my little prince, run, walk, laugh, I thought .. and if there were more close to our feet to walk? There
place .. in the heart .. in our lives ..
Thus began the conversation with Dad.
A father who was not convinced.
A father who had just needed time to understand that the place was in his heart.
We spoke with the psychologist of our body, and she told us, "Finally!"

And one day Dad came home with the modules.
is: we have these .. we can begin to build them. They are a little different from those of 2006.
We need to do a photo with all 4 (Nabucco, the 4zampe, including why he's an integral part of our family).
We need to do the analysis ..

So, hand in hand, as in a circle, Ema took us to the local health authorities to do the analysis.
And hand in hand, I took the subway and Ema in a rainy day before Easter and got to TDM.
I remember the egg you gave the guard the entrance and you infilasti mouth in one piece ..
And then sitting in the hallway, waiting for it to open the door.
And when you opened that door, you salutasti a little intimidated, how can it be a two and a half years.
And then you wanted to take away the sheets that I had left on the desk of the lady who worked at the TDM.

Now we have to wait. Both know the procedure ..

Oh, yes, as said by the clerk of the Chancery Adoptions, "do nothing but wait" ..
So we tried to introduce the speech "cuatellino or sister" to the Little Prince. It was not easy to make him understand what it meant, and still (which is making 3 years) I can not clearly represent what a brother / sister.

We helped the birth of several brothers and sisters of nest mates (unbelievable, out of 18 children, 7 in 2010 were born between brothers and sisters !!!).
So first we saw Nat in the belly of his mother and then in the pram and then Nat Nat who picked up milk from the mother, while her sister Pepper wandered proud of his little brother, looking in every way to pet it. But we saw also get
Dodo, brother of Mali Ale ..
All brothers, all births .. although different types of pregnancies ..

And Ema began to realize ..
And one day, before going to sleep, I said, "but the cuatellino steals my bed?" Glom!
So we began to slow down the conversation with the brother (or sister) .. And we began to talk less and less ..

Then one day, at dinner, in the usual "hand by hand" pre meal (before meals Ema has introduced the use of shaking hands together and say "hooray hooray + pasta / rice / fish / meat / pizza .. "And so on, wherever we are, to the restaurant with friends ... that we force them to join us in this manifestation of joy) Well, I said, this" hand hand began to remove his hand from my ..
afraid I asked, "Why?" and he said "Here cuatellino!" ..

then began the period of waiting .. Waiting
we call the police ..
waiting for the SS, which are now friends who see us once a month in the group, take time to "review" ..
How to explain to the little prince waiting for?
Answering "but because it takes time for the arrival cuatellino?"
Dad and I decided to tell him that it took time for a number of reasons: 1
. he must be great to be able to teach the cuatellino to fit your bike without wheels;
2. necessary that the Principal of the school adopting a new diploma to give mom and dad said that they could become mom and dad cuatellino.
Ema, faced with these explanations, it seemed, and continues to seem quite agree .. Let's see if in three years (Minimum time estimated) will still be satisfied with these explanations ..

And so come the holidays.
You go to sea, the first time.
You go to the amusement park where there are dolphins.
And if you take a kids menu "ragalano" a dolphin in which to hold the plastic bottle of water.
"Mom, you have to take two .."
"You still hungry?!?"
"No mom, but one is for cuatellino ..!"
Moral: Ema lie on the chest of two dolphins by dust ..

the evening before going to sleep you say your prayers and remember all the people we love ..
One night, dead of sleep, I start to do the usual list, then kiss and sleep .. My Prince is calling me while I close the door.
"Mom, you forgot cuatellino!"

And here is the SS:
you start at the bottom, from the home.
After only five months on the availability ..
no doubt about it: we are in line with the first.
The SS: two ladies who know us for three years
a monthly meeting in the group for three years.
Two ladies nice and helpful.
Two ladies who over time have been able to surprise us ..
The house was a gem. But they have not seen.
You are sitting on the floor in the room of Ema.
But they have not played with him.
And they have talked about adoption, but "diet".
And Ema looked at me with questioning eyes:
Why sit in my room and I have no space to play with toy cars?
And we read a book together, while talking to Dad
(the dietitian / nutritionist)
For an hour, then wanted to go on.
"But no, at least we would like to see how the change will come if the house
cuatellino .."
"Ah, yes. Well.
We have so many couples end: I'll see you in quite a while."
Ah.
"See you soon ..." And
pastries and sweets are eaten them there ourselves.

Giro ride round

any one Saturday. There
washing its face in front of the bathroom mirror.
"Daddy, why are black?"
"Why did the beautiful color of the babies born in Africa,
where the sun is very strong"
"I want a black cuatellino. Like me!"
"brother or sister?"
"Little Sister"

"Mom take the plane?"
"Where are you going?"
"In Mali to take cuatellino!"

Thank God for these moments.