First Meetings

O.K.
So tomorrow is the big adoption walk at Grace Chapel. We are so excited that some of you will be coming out to walk with us, it is about the only way I get enough time to see some of you. We are excited!
But since it is tomorrow, I thought I should give you a chance to meet FX the way we did, before we knew anything about his incredible story.
In the weeks proceeding our travel to China to pick up YoYo, We were allowed to Skype the foster home on several occasions to talk to him. I don't know if you've tried to get a Three year old to talk on the phone, but it is even weirder when you (a stranger) are trying to get them to talk to you on them computer in a language they don't understand. So the first time we tried,YoYo stared at the screen for about 12 seconds and wanted to go play. I'm sure he couldn't figure out why he should talk back to the TV.
We decided to sit a bit and see if he would come back, and so one of the Ayi's mentioned that YoYo's "older brother" wanted to know if he could practice his english. So this boy pops himself onto the bench and begins to talk to us in English which is remarkable for a boy of eight in the middle of Beijiing.
As we talked, YoYo became curious as to what he was going on so he jumped up on the stool too. Little did I dream, at that moment, that the day that I first talked to my son, I was talking to both of them at the same time. I took a picture, but I can't find it. Arrgghh.
But what I can find is this...a clip from our first day at the foster home. The foster home director had the imagination to take our camera so that she could film our first moments with YoYo. In order to give YoYo time to become comfortable enough to come meet us, she introduced us first to FX. If this dear friend (now a friend) hadn't, inexplicably, decided to film that meeting too, we wouldn't have any of this footage. I was busy writing my story in the moment, but God was reading pages I couldn't even imagine!
Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you....YoYo's elder brother, FX
p.s. the sound might be a little wiggy, I'm not sure.