The kids love it when Grandma comes to visit!
Month four is going so much better for Ya Ya and our family. We are all finally starting to find our groove in this new family dynamic. Ya Ya is really loving having a mama, and she proves it to me all the time by wiping her forever runny nose on me. She is always by me or on me, and is rarely out of sight, unless she's in the bathroom flushing the toilet, or trying to sneak out the front door.
She is talking up a storm, and is starting to put sentences together. The girl is amazing, and whatever they said about her having microcephaly well, whatever...
Here are some of her latest and cutest:
- Hi Ya Ya
- Come on!
- No No
- poo poo pee pee (said together, which means change me now!)
- nigh nigh baby
- Mee-ma! (her name for Aimee) said very loudly!
Oh and for those wondering how the two little girls are getting along...well, much better than I thought they would. Being my 6th baby I'm SO pleased at how well they get along! Jie Ling is very business as usual and doesn't get too bent over Ya Ya touching her things. There are only a couple of toys that are off limits, and even then before Jie Ling rips whatever it is out of her hands, she has something to replace it with!! Ya Ya may get crazy mad, but now gets it that sisters Play School camera is off limits!! Mike told me in the beginning to give them time to settle their differences (unless of course it got crazy) and he was so right! Jie Ling gets annoyed when Ya Ya calls her Ya Ya, and Ya Ya gets annoyed when Jie Ling takes up too much room on my lap.
Meanwhile:
I know this is crazy talk, but I've been looking at the lists again...there is a 10 year old girl who has touched my heart, she is deaf and mute. She is described as very bright, and loves to do art. In one of the pictures she is wearing a dress that is too big, giving the peace sign. Too cute. I wonder how she'd do in a family like ours? Could we truly give her what she needs? Could we become part of the deaf culture? If our family couldn't or wouldn't learn sign, does that mean there would be no relationship with her? Would she feel isolated? Did I mention that we have a school for the hearing impaired a few miles from our house?
Okay, I'm praying her family finds her soon!
