New words

Charissa now knows how to say "hi" (complete with the queen wave), "bye-bye," and "baby." She knows what a baby is, too!

Teeth update

Two more and these are back teeth.

I hope they don't come out as quickly as they've been coming in or the Tooth Fairy is going to have to take out a loan.

IT'S ALMOST LIKE WE'RE DOING IT AGAIN!

OUR OTHER LITTLE GIRL IS SLATED TO BE HOME SOON!

Please pray! The TA came at a bad time, but Momma Emily thinks they can make it work. They've asked the agency to get them a consulate appointment on the 19th, so if that works out, they'll be leaving this Thursday.

A visit to the store, cont.

And she was shushing me when she wasn't babbling or screaming.

A NEW CAR!!!!!

Big brother finally got the car together today. Take a look.

AND SHE MATCHES! Gee. I hope this idea doesn't take hold.

A visit to the store

As usual, what should have been a 30-minute foray at the grocery turned into a one-hour, fifteen-minute fiasco--all because I took the young'n. Everyone who knows her is drawn to her and vice-versa, so that makes for several minutes extra; but a bigger thing now is that she's learned that the grocery is a good place with lots of yummy stuff and fun folks. She babbled clear through the store, which leads me to believe that she is a blood relative to the Bishops, regardless of her race and birth origin. And when she saw something she wanted, her babble would turn into a scream/grunt that carried particularly well throughout the store. In the time we were there, she announced to half of Falmouth that she wanted chocolate cake, Cheerios, popcorn, five people she'd never met, her brothers and Kelsey.

This is what we've been told by international adoption psychologists: "Children who have been housed in orphanages do not know how to express wants or needs."

Liars.

"Hen-no!"

Translated: "Hello." She knows how to answer the phone now.