Monday, January 13, 2014

What a Blessing


The whole crew!

I get overwhelmed at how incredible our God is!  How He knits families together in such unique yet perfect ways is astounding to me.  During the waiting period, we prayed fervently for Olivia before we even knew her.  When we received her referral, we just knew that she was ours with complete and absolute peace.  Yet, we did not know what a blessing God had in store for us.  She has officially been with our family 7 weeks today and we have been home for 6 weeks.  Olivia is adjusting well, is a happy child and has us laughing a lot.  She loves to have fun and loves to play with any family member that is available.  She actually reciprocated one of my hugs on Christmas (the best present ever!!), and she now gives both Scott and I hugs and tells us that she loves us as well.  She was doing this to the kids long before us parents…  When she is comfortable (on her own turf), she has such a sweet and fun personality that is laughing most of the time, but when we are out in public or meeting people, she totally shuts down and becomes “stoic”.  I am sure this will improve with time as well.

 Very happy at home!

Some artwork.

Olivia is learning more English words every day and speaks one to two words at a time.  She is gradually starting to express herself with words versus us asking questions until she nods her head yes.  She sometimes mimics us, which causes much laughter!  She touches my heart and brings tears to my eyes to hear our sweet little girl thank the Lord for every family member by name in our prayer time!!  How sweet that must sound to Jesus!

Olivia is sleeping well but snores as loud as Scott! Unbelievable!!  So Elise has had some difficulty adjusting to her roommate.  Elise told us that she woke Olivia up, trying to turn her over to get her to stop snoring.  When Elise told Olivia that she was snoring, Olivia said “Me??” with surprise and laughter.

First Christmas!

Olivia’s is still very picky with foods but she is getting better with this as well.  She is at least trying new things like her first peanut butter sandwich and sliced ham today.  She still loves noodles and rice and could eat this at every meal if we let her.  Her food issue could have been related to her 19, yes 19, cavities!  We have addressed her bottom teeth already, which consisted of 4 crowns, 3 root canals, 2 fillings, and 1 extraction.  We have her uppers to go.  She is one brave kiddo with the way she handles doctors, shots, blood draws, dentist appointments, etc.   It will be nice when we have all these things behind us!

So in conclusion, we have come a LONG way from Nov. 25.  Olivia has had a huge turn around and is very happy.  I will close with how she closes her day in bed, “See you in the good morning!”

First time on the bike!


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