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Help[Games] Re: Summer's Adoption Agency
in reply to a message by Summer
Thank you for our gorgeous daughters! It has been a year since they joined our family and they are both doing very well.
Kanchana, whom we call Hana, is still shy and quite but has made tremendous progress. After 8 months of speech therapy she is now able to speak like a slightly delayed three-year-old. Her therapy will probably continue at least until she reaches school age. Nobody is sure what the cause of her language delay is but we are all happy that she can tell us what she wants and how she is feeling. Hana has also started to eat more--she loves pizza but her favorite foods are the Indian dishes we make every weekend. She now is at the 75th percentile for height and the 50th percentile for weight--not perfect, but she is improving. After she learned to speak, she told us that she was indeed having nightmares about the day her parents abandoned her. We remind her several times a day that we love her very much, she is ours now, and we will never give her up. Her nightmares are slowly getting better and she seems much happier.
Hana absolutely loves Lucy the kitten and Lucy sleeps on her bed every night. She also really enjoys running around in the garden with Elena. Hana worships her big sister Sofia and Sofia is very sweet about allowing Hana to follow her around everywhere. Sofia and Elena were major factors in helping Hana to learn to speak--they never stop talking and Hana learned a lot from them. Sofia, Elena and Hana all share a room and can often be found playing on the floor in the morning before Rowan and I get up--very sweet! Her favorite activities are climbing the trees in our garden, planting flowers, and chasing her sisters around the house.
Bo-Xiuying is still a bubbly, outgoing little girl. After observing her for several days we decided to give her the first name Grace. Grace immediately charmed our family and the whole neighborhood. Everyone loves her and she loves everyone. Hana has appointed herself Grace's official second mommy and loves to help us take care of her. Before Hana could speak to us she would sit for hours with Grace and hum little songs to her and hold her hand. Grace just loves to toddle behind her big sisters and "help" them with everything they do. She speaks very well for her age in both English and Chinese--the whole family has been taking Chinese classes (except for Hana, who doesn't need any language confusion). Sofia and Elena are already much better than we are and have long (one-sided) conversations with Grace that us grown-ups don't understand. Grace's favorite things to do include going to the beach, looking at books, coloring, and playing with her sisters. Her favorite food is peaches. She's been known to eat two entire peaches in one sitting!
Thank you very much for our wonderful girls.
Kanchana, whom we call Hana, is still shy and quite but has made tremendous progress. After 8 months of speech therapy she is now able to speak like a slightly delayed three-year-old. Her therapy will probably continue at least until she reaches school age. Nobody is sure what the cause of her language delay is but we are all happy that she can tell us what she wants and how she is feeling. Hana has also started to eat more--she loves pizza but her favorite foods are the Indian dishes we make every weekend. She now is at the 75th percentile for height and the 50th percentile for weight--not perfect, but she is improving. After she learned to speak, she told us that she was indeed having nightmares about the day her parents abandoned her. We remind her several times a day that we love her very much, she is ours now, and we will never give her up. Her nightmares are slowly getting better and she seems much happier.
Hana absolutely loves Lucy the kitten and Lucy sleeps on her bed every night. She also really enjoys running around in the garden with Elena. Hana worships her big sister Sofia and Sofia is very sweet about allowing Hana to follow her around everywhere. Sofia and Elena were major factors in helping Hana to learn to speak--they never stop talking and Hana learned a lot from them. Sofia, Elena and Hana all share a room and can often be found playing on the floor in the morning before Rowan and I get up--very sweet! Her favorite activities are climbing the trees in our garden, planting flowers, and chasing her sisters around the house.
Bo-Xiuying is still a bubbly, outgoing little girl. After observing her for several days we decided to give her the first name Grace. Grace immediately charmed our family and the whole neighborhood. Everyone loves her and she loves everyone. Hana has appointed herself Grace's official second mommy and loves to help us take care of her. Before Hana could speak to us she would sit for hours with Grace and hum little songs to her and hold her hand. Grace just loves to toddle behind her big sisters and "help" them with everything they do. She speaks very well for her age in both English and Chinese--the whole family has been taking Chinese classes (except for Hana, who doesn't need any language confusion). Sofia and Elena are already much better than we are and have long (one-sided) conversations with Grace that us grown-ups don't understand. Grace's favorite things to do include going to the beach, looking at books, coloring, and playing with her sisters. Her favorite food is peaches. She's been known to eat two entire peaches in one sitting!
Thank you very much for our wonderful girls.
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