So much going on...

So a year ago yesterday was our Gotcha Day!!! I can't believe it's been a year and wow has life changed! Here is our post from that day.. http://fosterfortunecookie.blogspot.com/2010/08/gotcha-day-is-here.html

She has changed soo much. Someone suggested I put pictures from a year ago then every 4 months until now. I will try and do that. Just not this evening. It's been a rough couple of days. On Monday she started running a 104 temperature! She had had this dry cough for a few days and it blew up. We had to go to Nite Lite Pediatrics.. they rock. It's an urgent care place for children, so you have a pediatrician instead of an generic ER doctor.. and hey I'm sorry pediatrics is a bit different! She has Strep. They did an antibiotic shot and gave us an Rx to continue. I had to call in today because she still was still running fevers around 100-101.. Can't really send her to daycare like that. I mean she wasn't contagious anymore but I need her to rest and not be run down. Finally this evening we didn't have to give her anymore medicine for a fever. FINALLY..guess the antibiotics are doing their thing.

Yesterday she actually napped for me, but not today. Which takes me to last Thursday, which I mentioned before.. and here are the details. Ya see lately she'll nap for Daddy, Daycare but not me! so frustrating. Last Thursday I just left her in her room to play .. she was playing nicely I could hear everything that was going on.. Then It got quiet.. so I decided to peek in. Well first I couldn't get the door open because she had put her step stool infront of it.. then I smelled poo as I got the door open.. and well the picture below is what I saw.WARNING the following image contains icky things.

OH man I was livid.... Now I look at it and laugh.. I was so pissed off! Anyway it looked like she took off one diaper (the bad and good of pull-ups) that was full of pee and put on another.. then pooed in that one. took it off and it landed..as my boss put it beautifully.. "butter side down". EW EW EW EW... Well that just upped our timeline for replacing all the carpet in our house! Yes we have decided to replace all our carpet with Pergo. It'll help with resale and lessen the allergens in the house. The carpet is 16yrs old and has to go! ANYWAY.. she's doing great.. talking more and more everyday. I can understand her most of the time. Which is pretty cool. Just need her to get better. I hate when she's sick. This Saturday we have our lunch with the Princesses.. so excited!

So there ya go.. Happy Gotcha Anniversary day!! and it's been awesome!

ZaiJian

~Donna

One Year Ago Today...

We were in the air on our way to China to adopt our little Fortune Cooke. I can't believe that it's been a year already since we went to China. It's been amazing, she is amazing. There are some days we are so freakin tired.. and others we are just having soo much fun. So.. in the coming 2 weeks it'll be.. a year ago.. this happened.

Ok.. this past Thursday. She had fun in her room during her "nap". She had removed her diaper.. and it landed.. butter side down if you get my drift. ew ew ew !!!! omg what a mess. Just moves up our timeline for replacing our carpet with flooring.

fun.. under the sun!

ZaiJian

~Donna

Great Evaluation!

So.. yesterday we had her development evaluation through the state. It's free to children with "special needs" and her palate qualifies her. So Robyn and I headed down to downtown Lakeland Tuesday morning. I had some paperwork to fill out then we headed into a small exam type room with a little kid table with chairs. and a few chairs for us adults. There was the main gal.. sorry can't remember what her title was and a young man there. Jason did most of the work with Robyn while the other person asked me tons of questions. Like does she dress herself, can she use a spoon. Yes... and chopsticks. yes people this kid used chopsticks to pick up a chickpea/garbonzo bean the other night! I am posting video as proof!

Anyway just over an hour later they were done. They ran the numbers and it turns out she has totally caught up to children in her age group. She's right there. In only a year! Just this past week she hit a milestone leap. We can tell when something big is happening. She becomes difficult to get to bed all of a sudden. Now she's doing that jibberish talk where you know she thinks she saying something but you have no idea what it is! She can say. "I do it". "I did it" My turn. the "all done" signing she used to do is gone.. long gone. it's no.. no no no.. and NOOO. with the added wine at the end. lovely. She repeats words and says Mommy's here, Daddy's here. Murphy Chester.. CJ (he's the neighbor) and even says Electra.. our neighbor's daughter's name! That's a tough one! Just tonight we went to our church for dinner and our priest has been out of town for the last 3 weeks comes up and says, "She talks now?". Just this week she started showing interest in the potty. She pulls down her pants climbs up and says I did it.. even tho nothing was really done. Yea you did it.. you got ON the potty. Now let's put stuff in it! too funny.

um.. the poor kid reacts to mosquito bites like crazy. They get all puffy and itchy. They LOVE her too. (she's sweet ya know) I swear the dang bugs will pick her out of a crowd! A friend said her kids were that way once then by the next summer they had built up some immunity and it wasn't bad. Here's hoping. Because I can't think of anywhere on the planet where there are no mosquitos! Gotta figure out what kind of bug stuff we can put on her. I know you should watch the concentration of DEET but not much more than that. Need to call the pediatrician and see what they say.

So in a few weeks Grandma, Grandpa, Aunt Carol, Uncle Lance, Nick and Chris are all coming for a visit and to go to Disney. We can't wait! She is gonna have soo much fun with her cousins! and so are we!

Well, that's all for now. We have some anniversaries coming up. Will make sure to post on those dates! Can you believe almost a year!

ZaiJian

~Donna

see.. using chopsticks!!! see video below!

just being cute in her cute hat!

Had to post this!

Watch her feet!! so cute!

Summer Fun!

We are soo having fun! It's been a busy week getting the house cleaned up for a party we had for our intern Breanna at work. Her last day was Friday and we had friends from work over for a BBQ and drinks! Gonna miss her! She's going back to school at the University of Michigan.. Go Blue! Robyn was GREAT during the party. let's back up tho.

Friday.. I had lots of errands to run and things to prep. Robyn was in a rotten mood, I mean ROT-TEN! Hey I get it we all have bad days! Then just as we were going to bed around 11pm she starts crying and crying.. and she just didn't seem right. I heard her swallow.. I mean I HEARD her .. so we took a look and that stoopid tonsil was all swollen again. She would NOT go to sleep. So I said, David you sleep and I'll stay with her and then we'll tag out during the night. I was gonna get him around 330am. Right around 3am.. I put a stop to the playing and rocked and rocked her unitl my back was killing me and she FINALLY fell asleep. She got only 5hrs of sleep. In the morning I took her to the Dr (they have Sat hours!!) and it wasn't strep. That's good. She wasn't running a fever at all. So the Dr said to call the ENT and let him know that sucker keeps blossoming out. I asked when they typically removed them, and she said around 3yrs old.. but with her palate. It could compromise it. Weaken it so it may not be an option for us. Oh goody. Well thankfully after the apt she took a 4.5hr nap! Right into the party so we were able to visit some without having to keep an eye on a 2yr old. But when she did get up she was in the BEST of moods and soo much fun! yey!!!

Ok.. so she's really talking up a storm. Most of which I have no idea what she's saying. I catch things here and there. She'll repeat things. She has a hard time with the hard consonants at the beginning of the word. except Daddy.. she says that quite clearly. For example. It's mopcorn.. and Mackpack. not popcorn and backpack. On Aug 23rd we finally got our Early Start evaluation appt in Lakeland. It's a free program offered by the state/county and .. well I'm not sure what it entails exactly, but after the appt I'll make sure to post what I learn! I did learn that she can go to preschool if we choose as early as NEXT YEAR!! for FREE!!!! so.. this sounds interesting. INDEED! Well enough chit chat. Here are the photos. and a video of the fun we had tonight! (It was actually cool enough to be outside for abit!)

She's gonna carry our suits to the car!

Cool kitchen from Aunt Carol! Thank you!!!

The coolest guitar. It's basically a speaker!

I plugged my mp3 player into it!

Having fun with Riley and Maddy!

With Mommy And Daddy!

There she goes in her buggy!

ZaiJian

~Donna