Who doesn't love a teddy bear?

We started off the evening by giving Ben a teddy bear which he loved very much!  He became Ben's buddy and accompanied us to the park after playing some frisbee.  It's fun watching Giles lunge after somewhat misguided throws from his son.  :-)

We just happened upon this park in our explorations of the area.  It has a nice playground including swings.  His orphanage doesn't have swings so we think this was the first time he's been on them.  (He started off sideways!)  A nice girl was swinging next to him so the competition began...each one was prompting their pushers to go higher.  We kept hearing, "Higher, Papa, higher!"  We both agreed that we would have been sick if we'd swung half as long as Ben did!  But he kept smiling.  :-)

He started off with some imaginative play at the top of the slide area, saying this was his house.  So I entered his world and he offered me to come in.  Ben made me some tea, supper and then told me it was time to sleep.  (The bear slept too.)  It was good to see his imagination at work! 

We had printed some pictures and I asked Ben, "Would you like to see some pictures?" to which he responded, "Da" before the translation was given.  So we guess some English language is getting through! 

We would like to bring him some McDonald's tomorrow so we'll see what he thinks of that!

Thanks to everyone for your kind words and prayers!  This has been a special experience for all of us!