Can you believe it's been almost 4 months?

Time is just really flying by here. We arrived home on October 18th and it is now into February already. In many ways it seems like she has always been a part of our family. She is blending in so well. She has picked up many new phrases. I think that by next Christmas she will be speaking English not just understanding it. We don't know for sure how much of our language she does understand. She says okay a lot when we talk to her and we THINK that she is understanding but we find out later sometimes that she didn't understand what we were saying. Then there are the times when she makes it really clear that she isn't understanding us. She has this face that she makes and then shrugs her shoulders at the same time. It's too cute!

Walt and Gina


Bridget

Tucker

Kirsten

Chance

One of my favorites of Bridget.

Bridget playing her guitar.


We got her a guitar as she seemed really interested in Kirsten's. We also got her a "computer" that hooks up to the tv. She really likes to be on the computer so it seemed fitting that we get her one of her own. I like the one of her standing by me. She just looks so pretty in that one, even with her messy hair! I dread when she gets to be a teenager. I think that a convent might just be a good idea or a cabin in the woods where no one lives around us for miles!

We got a couple of kittens during Christmas and they pretty much destroyed my tree. By the time Christmas morning arrived, the tree was leaning and many of the branches had been pulled off and had to be put back on. (fake tree) I could NOT keep them out of it! So, we did have to throw the tree away by then end of Christmas. Course, we needed to get a new one anyway. It was pretty old. I just have a hard time wanting to spend money when I just know that we can get one more year out it! ;)