We have now been home 5 weeks and she is doing very well. She is a happy little girl who has fit right into the family... she still does alot of watching and observing but, she will enjoy being right beside all the kids . Her favorite toys are the ones she can make a sound with and she still loves shoes.... anyones shoes. At the consignment sale last week I was able to buy all my princesses shoes for very cheap and we have lots of clopping shoes around here. She sleeps thru the nite and will often take a 2 hr quiet time in the afternoon. She is eating well and gaining. The kids are working hard on getting her to speak... they pray often for her and just have her try to repeat after them. She actually does try and it seems like L's and H's are the sounds she makes easiest. I told the kids the first one who gets her to say momma gets 10 dollars and boy have they been motivated :) She is so cute because they show her that you move your jaw up and down to say momma ... and that is what she does when they ask her to say it... The picture with her holding bubbles and the pinwheel shows what we are doing to encourage her muscles in her mouth for speech... bubble blowing and blowing on the pinwheel. She can do it but I was surprised at how hard it was for her at first... she gets her hearing tested Monday but we do not suspect that is the issue.
She now loves the dogs and will often go up to them and will pet them... sadly a week and a half ago we had to put our beloved Annie down... she was our golden and was 17 yrs old ..... she loved all the kids and they her so it was a sad morning here that Monday. She was always especially gentle with the kids and she was usually the first one the new child went to....
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