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This is the story of my journey to bring Willow home from Guatemala. I am now mom to two daughters: Lily (5) who was born in China and Willow (2).

Monday, October 5, 2009

October Update

I am disappointed to report that I only have 2 pictures to post. My only excuse is that September is always hard on a teacher (and a kindergartener). We are all adjusted now, though, and I expect to pick up the pace with "events" and more photo opportunities now that we're used to day care, school, and work.

Willow adores grammy. She cheers when we mention her name and runs to her arms when we see her. Willow has been going potty on the toilet for a week now! At first I'd ask her if she wanted to call someone to tell them, and she rotated evenly between wanting to call Yaya, grammy, papa, and Marc ("MAAAAARRRRR!"). Now I just give her an M&M and she's satisified. She loves going to day care and cheers when we mention Di's name too. She is incredibly happy most of the time. She's got a hot temper, but is generally silly, playful, and smiley. She goes willingly to the nursery at church each week too - she's not the least bit afraid of being left witha roomful of toys and other kids (like her big sister always was).


Here grammy is reading out on my deck: Lily loves kindergarten. She loves the "homework" and her friends and her teacher. Her favorite part of the day, I'm sorry to report, is Kidstop. It's the school-based day care program. She gets to eat breakfast in the cafeteria, go to the computer lab, make art projects, watch movies, play outside, and play games/toys in the classroom. She absolutely loves it there! On Saturday when she got up, Lily asked me if she got hot lunch or cold lunch that day (she BEGS for hot lunch every day). I told her we were staying home together and she was devastated. She just loves going to school!

OK - here's to a photo filled October!