Buried in the (over)loaded suitcase in my dining room is something I’m pretty excited about.
Having seen how deep breathing and stretching helps our littlest learn how to relax and regulate, I wanted to take something to China this time to help the little ones there do a little bit of this…and maybe their caregivers too.
There’s a story behind the story…as their always is. There’s a boy at the orphanage only a little younger than my daughter. He can sing songs like a rockstar and thought a video on my phone of Lydia climbing up a pole was downright hilarious. If she were there with me last spring, they would have been buddies. His name means Happy Sun. Her Chinese name means Beautiful Moon.
So, in honor of the sweet ones who wait and the sweet ones who have already come home, the book began.
We’ll try it out on this trip and see what needs to be tweaked in it to make it a more useful tool. I’m hoping it works for them…and I’m hoping the translations are correct.
At least my little Beautiful Moon seems to like it. Clearly, the stretching movement from side to side is a fave–hence the blurry picture.
