Seven weeks ago yesterday, we received Ethan from the foster family and the adoption agency in Seoul, Korea. It’s been quite a ride so far. We thought we’d share an update on how Ethan is doing.

Today, Ethan made his second trip to the pediatrician since we’ve been home. It was a good doctor visit, except for the two shots/immunizations Ethan received.

Interestingly, the information given to us about Ethan’s routine in Korea has been no help to us. His routine here is completely different, and all for the better, really. In Korea, he was going to bed late and getting up late. He was also getting up for a bottle once or twice a night. And, he was taking three short 20 to 30-minute naps every day.

Here, once he made the time zone adjustment has been going to sleep around 8:30 pm and getting up about 11 hours later. And for about the last 5 weeks, he has been sleeping straight through the night!

Ethan normally takes 2 naps a day — late morning (about 3 hours after he gets up in the morning) and late afternoon (about 4 hours after getting up from his morning nap).

At 7 weeks, Ethan is doing very well.

On Friday, we received our second round of edits from the editor at Asbury. And just like the last time (Seeing Red), there’s a lot of red marks on the pages of our drafts!

The edited drafts came about a week late, leaving us only a week to return three cleaned up copies to the faculty members of our dissertation teams, so the rest of this week will be a bit stressful (but also exciting, knowing that the finish line for this part of our journey is getting closer!).

Thankfully, we’re working our way through the list of remaining tasks, which we posted earlier. Basically, after making the revisions in the next few days, it’ll just be a matter of getting ready for defenses (see Defenses Scheduled!), then making any changes recommended by our team members. Then at last, one final edit by the editor and one last round of red marks to plow our way through.

It’s funny. Our mentor describes both of our writing as clear and clean (in terms of grammar). Man, if our writing is clean, I’d hate to see our edits if our writing wasn’t clean!