Matteo loves swinging

It has been an emotional week. Matteo's godmother Isa, and my childhood and dearest friend, underwent brain surgery on Thursday to remove a tumour. Thank God, it went very well, tumour is all out and is benign, and Isa was discharged today...yes too early but she will be off work for 3 months, needs to watch for swelling, any discharge etc....she has nausea and pain, and will experience headaches. She is doing really well and as there is a c-difficile outbreak at the hospital, it really is best that she is at home. Anyhow it has also been emotional as I have been following S's blog who is in Vietnam and adopted a little girl Trinh from Matteo's same orphanage. Her posts have been so detailed and some of the places she visited I was familiar with and they brought me back to my time with Matteo there. While they are mostly happy memories I am so very glad we are here and living our lives though I hope to head back to Vietnam for a month in the summer in the next year or two....and want to stay in Vung Tau as well as do a bit of visiting...while Matteo is very little probably won't go very far from Vung Tau, but as he grows I hope to return often to allow him to understand and learn about his homeland as I did with Italy. Of course that is the plan or hope. Anyhow last Sunday we went to Isa's with my sister and then went to a local park with Isa's son Luca. Luca pushed Matteo on his very first swing here in Canada which then reminded me that I did put him in a swing at the Somerset which has a small play area and he sure loved it there and here...so parks are definitely on the agenda but because he's not walking yet, we'll have to stick to parks with swings and sadly the 3 parks closest to us don't have any so we'll have to continue to search!!.

Tonight I'm feeling so grateful for so much.

For now I'll leave you with the photos of Matteo, one in Dec. 2010 in Saigon at the Somerset and then a few of Matteo on April 3, 2011 having fun and of course a photo with Luca.