Almost 2 weeks home

Emily is doing great. She is settling right in to our family. She has quite the fun personality. She is happy, attaching well, funny and loves to play and eat. During the almost two weeks home both my boys turned a year older and we had small family parties for both of the boys.






She did very well during both parties and the grandparents and great grandparents all got the chance to meet her. She also has attended both of my children's classes at school (outside in the mountains) to watch them blow out their candles. She has hardly been outside before and she seemed very excited to be there. She also got to play in the sand for the first time and she just laughed touching the sand.



She is sleeping through the night and taking a 3 hour afternoon nap everday. We haven't been to see our pediatrician yet but from what I could tell and based on my two little boys she seems to be totally on target developmentally for her age. She just turned 14 months old, has been walking since she was 11 months. Her first 2 russian words were "mama" and "give me". Which I think totally describes her. She always has her hand up for something, anything to put in it. She actually communicates very well. I already seem to know what it is she wants. And she will look us in the eyes when she talks with us. She has already learned the sign for "all done", "eat", and "more". I have heard her say "up, up" and put her hands up to be picked up and she has also said "Bubba" twice, which is our 2nd son's nickname. Other than that she coos and babbles to herself and makes all sorts of clicking and popping noises with her mouth. She has 4 teeth on top and four on the bottom. She is also getting in four of her 1 year molars. She is able to drink out of a cup but I've regressed her back to a bottle for attachment. She can feed herself finger foods as well as eating with a spoon. I like to feed her with the spoon to promote attachment but she will often take the spoon from me and feed herself and then hand the spoon back to me for more food to be put on it. Finger foods she has eaten, cheerios, bananas, pears, strawberries, blue berries, melon (she doesn't like), peas, carrots, corn, brocolli, strips of buttered bread, avocado, grilled cheese sandwich, quesadilla, buttered pasta, meatball, and spaghetti. She is quite the cute eater. My boys at this age what have smashed the food into their mouths. But she very daintly will pick up one piece and bite it in half with her front teeth, chew it up and then eat the 2nd half. Even with her strips of buttered bread she will just take a bite off the strip and chew it up and then take another bite. Really impressed by this as like I said with both my boys I had to really watch them when eating so they wouldn't choke.



She has already mastered climbing and will try it out on everything so we really watch her with that new ability. She is such a delight. We are just so thrilled to be her parents.