Tuesday, Sept 21

So how are things going??? Pretty good. She's had some good nights and some bad. Last night was not a good one. So as soon as I am done with this post, I'm taking a nap. She fell asleep in the car as we were running errands this morning. She did really well I'd say. She likes to get out too.

Aunt Beth, our OT, said she has low tone in her core. We need to work on her core strength. So we try and do baby situps with her as we are playing with her and get her to crawl. She keeps trying to stand. She wants us to hold her arms/hands and she gets herself onto her feet. Little bugger. We are also working on sign language as that will be easier for her than the whole English thing at this point. I have some work to do as in calling local cleft Palate organizations and start things rolling for her. We've got lots of challenges ahead. Surgeries, speech therapy. Luckily she's a very determined girl..and quite the thinker.

Right now we have to work out the visiting schedule as all her aunts, uncles and grandparents want to come and visit! She's so popular! And we are also trying to work out when the Baptism will be. More on that later.

Some stuff for us. It's our 15th year anniversary this Thursday! Yey!! So if anyone is interested in babysitting so we can go out for a dinner, let me know!! We don't care when we go, just would like to soon. Also we need someone for November 2nd. That is David's WDW 20th annv dinner. Most likely it'll be more like house sitting as we'll get her to bed and then there's not much to do but hang out just in case she stirs. which lately is not the case, well not till in the early am and we'll be home by then.

So on we go. We have to start looking at David's vac time and how the money stash is doing to see how long we can go before we both need to work and she'll need to go to daycare 2 days a week. Dreading that. Though, she loves being around other children, it'd be interesting to see how that goes.

We developed the pictures the orphanage took for us. Very interesting to get a glimpse of what her life was like before we came along. Glad we came along.

Ok.. I put this tiara on her TOTALLY expecting her to just pull the garsh darn thing right off. Nope. She left it on and kept on playing. Like she knew she was a little princess!









Crusin in the stroller...

ZaiJian
~Donna