Wheelers thankful for fourth family member

This item and photo on Beacon Journal reporter Tracy Wheeler and his family is from the November 21 issue of HotType. It is a little late because of an e-mail glitch.

On Saturday, Oct. 29, Tracy Wheeler and his wife, Kim, came home from their second trip to Thailand with their second son, 14-month-old Max. Big brother Terry Pitak, 6, went along, too. His parents made the same trip to adopt him in February 2000, working through Holt International Children’s Services, the Oregon-based nonprofit agency that helped them find Max. The journey home with Max, who was fairly quiet on the 27-hour trip, was easier than the journey home with Terry Pitak, said Tracy Wheeler. Terry cried for two days straight in Thailand, then worried his new parents to distraction by spiking a 104-degree fever on the flight home.