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Meeting Rani And Arjun: Our Family Grows By Two (By Louisiana Sandusky) by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado
Monday, April 4, 2005
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Louisiana is beyond thrilled at the arrival of their two newest children from Sri Lanka, Arjun Ravi, who is one, and Rani Kalpana, who is five. The two children arrived Saturday afternoon, and the family has been enjoying every minute with them.
Monday, April 4, 2005, 11:04 a.m., C.S.T.~
Well, dear Journal, they are finally here: our two little Miracle children, Arjun Ravi and Rani Kalpana, are in our house, and we have all fallen in love with them both.
Arjun is so cute: he is chubby, and he looks at us with his huge, obsidian eyes, trying to figure out in his infantile mind just who we are and what he is doing in our house; he knows we are not his mommy or daddy, so he just stares at us, trying to figure who these "strangers" are. But he does let us hold him, and he does take his bottle; so we know there is nothing wrong with his appetite. He has cried some (mostly when hungry or when wet or poopy), but he has otherwise been our silent little Buddha.
As for Rani, she is shy, too, but she has cried a lot. She is walking on a wheeled walker, and her co-ordination seems off; but I am sure that once she starts physical and occupational therapy, that will disappar. She is also scared because she is in a new country and she speaks only a few words in English; but I am sure that once she gets used to us and her new surroundings and learns more of the English language, her true personality will soon start shining through.
We know our two chlidren are scared, so we will try to ease our excitement, but whenever they are asleep, I keep touching them or pinching myself, to see if this is all but a dream; but we know it isn't because there they are, as big as life, in front of our eyes. It doesn't seem possible, but the time between our filing out our paperwork to get the pair and then the arrival of Rani and Arjun has been unbelievably brief: it has only taken us three months, much faster than we had first anticipated!
Now our family has grown by two, and we are now the parents of an unbelievable *52* children! We have kids from India, Africa, China, Korea, Vietnam, Mexico, Guatemala, France, Germany, Bosnia, Russia, Japan, and Italy, as well as the continental United States and Canada, and now we have two little Miracles from Sri Lanka in our family. We don't know if we are going to "Americanize" Rani or Arjun's names, but for now, they will be known by their given, birth names. We will just have to toy with them and see how the names go with "Sandusky". Rani Kalpana Sandusky. Arjun Ravi Sandusky. Hmmm..not bad, not bad! :) It seems incredible, but the first time I met the pair, the little girl was lying in a coma back in Sri Lanka, suffering from a devastating head injury, and the little boy was found, unhurt, but he was suffering from pneumonia, and we had to fight like heck to save his little life. Thankfully, he recovered swiftly, but we were saddened to learn that he lost his entire family in the tsunami, and he had nobody to care for him. I wonder if he or Rani are going to be traumatized as a result of the deadly tsunamis; time will only tell!
~Written by Louie Sandusky, adoptive mama to now *52* Miracle Chlidren! :)
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