Our new little girl loves to play! She likes to play baby dolls and dress up. She likes to play with her mei mei Katie. I went to check on the girls today and found them in their princess dresses in the bathroom putting clip barettes in each others hair! She is quite the crafty girl too, making bead necklaces and painting and drawing and cutting! Even the boys get in the action, playing with the girls, tickling, hiding and jumping out to scare them, running around chasing them! They are really enjoying each other. I am seeing Jake enjoy Sophie more than he did in China!
We had a busy day. First we went to the nurse practitioner to have her look at her rash. We are now treating Jake, Shawn and me for scabies since that is probably what her rash was from. We treated Sophie in China, but not until into the second week and we could yet get them. Better to prevent than have to treat the whole family.
Then Shawn and I took her shopping at Walmart for groceries. We wanted to give her a chance to pick out some food that she thought she would like. She did great. I would never have thought 2 weeks ago that this little girl would do so well on a Walmart run!
After an early lunch we took a trip to the library and Sophie enjoyed playing with the toys. Her eyes got huge when I picked up a panda puppet and held it like it was real and made it say "ni hao" to her!
We picked up our new friend Hannah who is a 15 year old homeschooled girl who used to live in China and is fluent in Mandarin. Sophie enjoyed talking with her and I was able to have Hannah ask her a bunch of questions, like what meats do you like (since she hasn't eaten really any in our 2 weeks together) and she answered "rabbit". Don't know that I'll find that at Walmart! I had Hannah explain to her that we will homeschool her and she asked, "is that ok to do that?" and "when will we start?" and "how many days will I have school?" She just cracks me up! She told me that math is her favorite subject.
Praising God for how happy Sophie is and how well she seems to be doing! The other kids are doing well with her too. Thank you, Jesus for these treasures! This is one happy momma (and babba too!)
What a huge praise to God for this smooth homecoming!!!!! She is sure fitting in and adjusting like she has always been an Everly. Planning an April Asian Play group and would love to have your whole family. love, Ellen
ReplyDeleteIs that my bow!? :D :D :D
ReplyDeleteActually rabbit is very common in the frozen food isle.
ReplyDeleteGreat to have you all back safe.
She looks so happy! : - )
ReplyDeleteRabbit is usually brought by at least one family to my family's reunion each September. I never know until I ask later which stew it was in!
ReplyDeleteSo glad to hear things are going well as you all adjust. Praising God for all His blessings!