One week home. Emily is such a blast! We had her doctor's appointment where we learned that our girl is most likely turning 2! We're going to have a party!!
She always manages to get a leg kicked up when she sleeps.
Em slept through the night last night!! It was our best night since we've been home. I hope she follows that up again tonight. We've been going on no sleep for far too long.
She is getting stronger every day. She is holding her body a lot more and has started putting weight on her legs! She loves to stand and for sure prefers it to sitting. She's been using her arms a lot more. Her hands are still super uncoordinated and she can't figure out how to make those little tiny fingers serve her at all. She starts occupational therapy, physical therapy, speech therapy, and mental development soon, and will have them weekly for the next several months.
Em loves her sisters so much and they LOVE her right back! I have all the help I need when they are home.
Her appetite has increased 10 fold. She drinks several 6 oz bottles of formula every day, and eats about 3 jars of baby food with a big bowl of rice cereal every day too. Beats the "3, 4oz bottles of formula supplemented with warm sugar water" that she was getting in the orphanage. She's going to GROW!
We've had so many awesome family and friends come to visit us and we love it so much. Emily still gets overstimulated pretty easily and will start to zone out, but we're seeing that less and less. She's already giving up some of her institutional behaviors, which we like to see.
She is super ticklish and has the BEST laugh! We are so in love with this baby! She has been the greatest blessing to our family. I am so glad that Heavenly Father chose adoption as a way to grow our family. Biological children are an incredible blessing for sure, but adoption has been an equally incredible blessing for our family.
So, I've been staying away... but it looks like she is doing SOO well with visitors! We'll be down and say hi as soon as we can. She is so dang cute. I'm so happy for your family. (PS... I sent some treats down with Jake last Sunday, but there was no card and I hope you knew it was from us because we just wanted you to know we were excited you made it home!!) Little Emily is so lucky to get to be apart of your family. That sealing to her will be such a neat experience, I'm sure your whole family is dying to get that done and make this connection eternal! :) We are so happy for you.
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