3 months home!

3 months home!

Only 3 months?

Really?

It's like she's always been here.

She understands 98% of what we say, she can get her point across (using English words) for most things and she just flows with the family. We still have long dissertations in Mandarin when Scarlett has upset her or she is excited about something. I love those moments and try very hard to document them so she'll be able to hear what she sounded like.

Oh, oh, oh! We haven't had a tantrum in weeks! Weeks! When I tell her "no" about something, she may pout, but no tantrums.  

She is learning to swim, mostly one armed, but darned if she isn't determined to use her right arm too.  She will wait for me to put her Puddle-jumper on and then run and jump into the deep end of the pool. She has no fear!  

We are doing her OT three times a day on her right arm and hand. She is flourishing! She now has more movement in that arm and her hand is getting stronger! This from a child that we thought would never be able to use her right arm at all.

But she is so determined.

She loves to swim. This has been the biggest motivator. She watches her big brother and sister swim at the meets and she is salivating to get out there and do it too!

And she is strong willed enough to do just that.

We work with flashcards everyday. Numbers, colors and shapes. She knows most of them by heart. She wants to learn them. She wants to learn everything! She brings me the cards every morning so we can go over them.

She will still eat everything I put on her plate. Her favorites are bananas, tomatoes and broccoli with tahini sauce, hamburgers, potato chips with French onion dip, ice cream, eggs and bacon and pancakes.

She is such a love. She is an awesome sister to Scarlett and they adore each other. They play so well together, with only minor scuffles here and there. Our only major issue was nap time and since Finn won't nap and won't let Scarlett sleep, I have had to move her into another room for "quiet time" while Scarlett naps.

Oh, and my final ahhhh... she still sniffs everything before she eats it. Too, too cute!