Yes, she has her glasses. No biggy it seems to her, but I nearly broke down in tears in the store realizing how much her world had changed. She is a little wobbly sometimes, which I am told is normal, but she is now doing stairs with gusto (alternating feet on each stair, where before it was like a block of wood going up the stairs) and she is looking at stuff in a different way now.
As of May 5th, its been exactly 6 months since this little angel came into our lives. It was 6 months ago that this frightened little girl came forward to say Hello to me and to DH aka Papa. It has been a time of renewal for her and of significant change, and if you will allow I will recap it briefly:
1. Meeting Maman and Papa, and discovering China together
2. Flying overseas for 30 odd hours to meet her 3 brothers, Grammy Carol and her dog (poor Zorro and poor Kaitlynn)
3. Awful jetlag to recover from
4. New food, new smells... and what is that white stuff on the ground? Oh, and how to walk in snowsuits and winter boots (that was a biggy!)
5. Christmas!
6. New Years celebrations with her first playmate, Lily
7. Birthday parties and playdate parties
8. Chinese New Years celebrations with friends
9. Cleft palate repair and tubes in her ears
10. Vaccinations!
11. Speech therapy
12. Swimming lessons
13. Spring time, and no more boots... just sun hats and sun glasses and running shoes and bicycles, and hockey sticks
14. Daycare (more on this in another post)
15. Being able to see the world through rose colored glasses...
Yes, Kaitlynn, the world is all right even if it has changed quite a bit for you. Hopefully, the next 6 months won't be quite as life changing and we will be able to slow things down a bit for you to be able to catch your breath!
4 comments:
What a smile I think she looks dashing, yes she has been threw so much in just a short time but with the love you have given her she has pulled threw amazingly,the first time I saw her pic I could see in her eyes the joy for life this little angel had , here is to you and Greg you are doing a wonderful job her smile says it all
colette
Great Glasses! She 'looks' happy to have them ;-). Of course she usually looks pretty happy in all her pictures anyway.
Here's to a quieter six months although she seems to be thriving anyway even with everything that's gone on in her little life over the past 6 months.
When we told Jie-Jie that Anmei has glasses just like him he was happy. When we showed him the pictures on the blog he got really excited and asked if she had a patch too (just like Jie-Jie). It was so cute!
Dawn
She looks pretty darn happy with those glasses on! What a new world in front of her all of a sudden! I think they look great! And she has been through a lot, but certainly is thriving and rolling with the punches, coming out on top! Congratulations on six months home!
BTW Happy Mother's Day! It just occured to me, after I called your place tonight, I think you are doing some "Mother's Day Run"?? If so, I hope it goes really well! And let yourself be spoiled a bit today! You're one hard working mom!
She looks beautiful in those pink glasses. They are perfect for her!!
Happy Mother's Day! :o)
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