Little Girl with a Attitude

Are they cute or what!!!!!!!!!!!!
Big Sister!!!!!!!!!!!

I pretty much know now that I am not as young as I use to be. I go to bed at night with my head spinning, and wonder if I even combed my hair that day. That's O.K., no one cares if I combed my hair or not, when I have two little china girls with me that's all everyone looks at. Addison is fitting into her American life quite nice. She is starting to be picky about what she wears. I had a dress for her to wear to school the other day and she looked at it and said "No Mommy". I said yes Addison , you will look so cute in it, and she replied again, "No Mommy". Well, she won the argument. I will let her be picky now just because she can. I am sure she wore what the Nannies told her to in China and, they were not even her own clothes.

She is starting to like school and the kids in her class just love her. When I walk her into her classroom there are a bunch of little girls that come to greet her. She is so tiny compared to the rest of the class. She is going to turn 7 in January and she looks like she would be about 4. She knows the family routine everynight and when it comes bedtime she wants me to rock her. My sister taught her the motions of pointing to her eye and crossing her arms on her chest with I LOVE YOU. She tells me everynight now, I LOVE YOU MOMMY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's hard to believe 6 weeks ago this little girl didn't have a Mommy or Daddy to love and now she has so many people that love and care about her. I looked at both the girls this evening as they layed asleep so contented (and so spoiled). I thought to myself, half way across the world are two mothers that left there babies, one in a park and one along side a road. How hard that must have been for them, probably with no option to keep them. I wonder it they ever think where they are and how they are doing. Our girls are going to be O.K. now, they have a loving family that will always be there for them and they will always have each other.

Addison has had some issues with her bowels and I even ended up taking her to the emergency room a couple of weeks ago. She had loose bowels when we got her in China but, I just figured it to be the change in diet. She continued to have it and even started to pass blood. After some testing she ended up having Giardia. It is a parasite that comes from bad drinking water and attaches itself to the small intestine. The Dr. said she has probably had this for a long, long time and has just learned to live with it. That explains why she is so small. Weight loss is one of the symptoms. We have her on some medicine now and hope to get her feeling better very soon. We also are taking her in a couple of weeks to a orthopedic Dr. at our Children's Hospital to see what can be done with her feet. I hope there is some kind of brace or something that can straighten out her foot and not need to have more surgery.

She seems to love all the Christmas decorations and even sit on Santa's lap at the Mall yesterday. This will be a big time for her this year at Christmas and we are looking forward to sharing it together with her.