Our Little Cherry Blossom has been keeping this mama very busy! Even now she is supposed to be napping and is instead laying on the couch with her head propped up and her hair sticking up everywhere just watching me type. I have a feeling that I will not finish this post today.
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So, since my last blog update we have had some pretty exciting things happen. We have celebrated her 2nd month of being home and are about to celebrate her 3rd month arriving home. It is hard to believe that this little sassy girl has been with us for over 3 months now. I was able to celebrate my first Mother's Day, which has been a rough day for me over the past five years. This year I was crying tears of happiness instead of tears of sadness at church.
She is doing so well with understanding what we are saying. She definitely knows how to respond with a "yes" or a "no" (she loves the latter). We like to trick her when she is on her "no" streak by throwing in a question to see if she will say "no". This question is "Do you want money?" and she always responds by saying "yes" and smiling. We have no idea where she has gotten this from since we are not ones to hand her money but it is really funny. She follows instructions very well and still continues to pick up trash and throw things away. It is ironic that she can find the one piece of lint on the steps going up to her room and give it to us to throw away, but she ignores all of the crayons on the living room floor that we have to ask her to pick up continuously.
Her talking improves more and more each day. We are slowly being able to understand the words she is saying and if we cannot then she points at what she is talking about. We know that the more exposure she gets to other kids talking the better she will get. Many people have asked if she will continue to speak Mandarin. She never really spoke a lot of Mandarin and if she did it was her mimicking a song. As she continues to grow in the English language I am incorporating American Sign Language and will add Mandarin later.
Her social skills have greatly improved as she has had a lot of exposure to other kids at her babysitter, church and all of our friend's kids. This week she has been at VBS and has LOVED it! Everyone that sees her talks about how cute she is and how animated she gets during the singing and dancing time. Our girl really likes to dance! Her favorite song on the radio right now is Icono Pop's song "I Love It" and she likes to act like she is mouthing the words. Every time it comes on the radio she screams my name and then starts dancing. It is a trip!
The Rock and I have been able to leave her home twice now. We were able to have our first date night with some friends and her Grandma and Grandpa kept her. They were able to see how bossy she is and she has wrapped them around her little fingers too. She entertained them all night! The second night was when we went to The Rock's 20th High School Reunion and she got to hang out with her Nana all night. Thankfully this was the same week that Mama had workshops for school so she had been with Nana all week and did really well. She continues to become more comfortable around our friends and family and is growing both physically and socially!
The girl is all about her ponytails, sunglasses and lip gloss. I think her daddy is going to be in trouble!
I will try to do some more posts later tonight because this one post has taken me most of the afternoon to finish with a certain 3 year old running around without a nap!
With all of her Cousins!!
Worn Out!!!