-Yes, her behaviors do consume a good part of my day but she is the sweetest little thing. Just when we think that we are ready to lose our minds she will give us a huge hug and kiss right smack on the lips! She is the only child we have that will do that and I love it more every time she does it!
- Having said that, if it's off limits that's where she is. If it is a "no touch" that is what she is touching. If it is not allowed she is doing it. That sums up Anya!
-Her communication is coming along nicely. She is getting an hour of speech therapy a week. She ADORES Signing Time and has picked up some signs from there that I didn't teach her (including Hopkins:) which is very encouraging. Since having her ears cleaned out she is approximating more sounds though she isn't taking off verbally like I thought she might. She is also much more fearful of noises. She does babble more. So she will say "Bah de mo gu adah go chee" and then at the end she says something that sounds just like she is saying "OK?!" We like to translate for her and say something like "I am leaving now and I am going to take over the world. OK?!" :)
-Speaking of her love for Signing Time she spends her days wanting to hear the "Silly Pizza Song". She even "sings" the tune of some of some of the songs. There are few sounds I love more than hearing her sing!
-I registered her for Kindergarten and I should be getting a call by the end of the month for her to be evaluated by the school. I find this interesting. She is still so toddler like that the thought of sending her to school seems a bit silly to me but oh well. This is what I plan to tell them at the IEP meeting..."You must find her a para who will not be taken by her cuteness. If her para thinks she is too cute to make her behave I promise you that one day you will find yourselves locked in your rooms and Anya will be sitting at Dr. Yerke's (her principal) desk with her feet propped up eating pizza!" Do you think they will listen then?
-She calls everyone mom...everyone. It took us 5 months to get her to stop calling everyone DUHBAH so I guess this is improvement.
-Which sort of leads me into bonding. It's very interesting with Anya. I think she knows we are her caregivers and she likes us but I know she has no idea at all that we are mom and dad or that we are her family. I really still think that if she went to another family tomorrow she'd be just as affectionate and just as happy with them. That's to be expected after 5 months to some degree but I really don't see it changing anytime soon.
-She is getting her own room....hopefully sooner than later! Our original plan was for her to share with Oksana but we started with her in our room. She is still in our room. We learned that she can be a loud sleeper and that she will randomly wake up at 5 am singing and yelling for someone to wake up with her. Oksana NEEDS her sleep. We will all pay dearly if she is woken up like that so we are building a new room downstairs and Evan is giving up his room upstairs for Anya. We are in drywall right now and it can't come soon enough considering that I've been up since 5 am this morning.
-She is a great eater but has decided she doesn't like meat! I'm still trying to figure out what to do about that. Her diet is so restricted as it is because of her celiac disease that I hate to lose meat.
I'm sure I'll think of more later but for now that sums up where we are. Here are a few pictures to finish up her update!
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| In her brother's riding helmet. She knows he hates it when she puts this on....see what I mean ;)?! |
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| Digging through mom's purse while she waits for the brothers at the dentist. |
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| In mom's coat! |
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| This is for all those people who say "She's always so happy!" HA! This is what she looks like a good part of her day. Anytime life doesn't go her way this is what we get! She often growls at us at the same time. |
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| Shaving Cream! |
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| This is how she came out of my room when I told her to find her shoes! |
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| Waiting to get her ears cleaned out. They had to puther under because there was 5 years of wax caked in there. They also thought they might have to place tubes but her ears looked great when they could finally see in there! |
3 comments:
What a rascal! But I must admit, she looks real cute in your coat! :)
(By the way, the "Silly Pizza Song" is also one of my favorite Signing Time songs!)
Love the pictures. I thought she was so adorable when I met her, but I knew she was going to keep you VERY busy.
Reminds me of this mom I saw last year at a baseball game. She was being run ragged by her two toddlers...this apparently childless and deluded onlooker says to her: "They are so cute! How do you ever discipline them?" The weary mother looked at this woman and said..."Trust me, the cute wears off!"
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