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!