1 month already!!!

OK, so this is only 1 week late, but Mia has been in our life for one month already!!! It is really hard to imagine life without her now.

There is so much to report. Mia is doing very well with her adjustment and amazes me everyday. She is an awesome sleeper and actually naps for an hour and a half every day!! The boys gave up naps by the time they were 2! She is a very happy child, who loves to snuggle and play with her brothers. She gets so excited when they get home from school. And speaking of the boys they are awesome with her and a really enjoying having a little sister. They are a great help to her and will play with her during the day. Three children in the home, definitely make it a circus act here! Mia is also amazing us with her language development. By the end of my second week in China I was completely annoyed with the language barrier and could not wait to get home and speak English! Mia, on the other hand, is rarely frustrated by the language barrier. She really wants to learn and repeats everything we say!

And speaking of English, here are the words that little miss Mia has picked up already and says consistently throughout the day.

Mama- she says this about 100 times per day!

Daddy- she says a lot as well

Yogan - aka Logan

Jaca - aka Jacob

milk

wata - water

bebe - baby

bye bye

hi

tot - hot

baayea- potty

puppy/ dog (or "go!".... mia is not an animal lover)

cat (same as above)

color

there ya go - when she gives you something

come here

come on

cheerios/ chips/ noodles

bear

i love you

this one

huh?- when you call her name or she doesn't understand you

I am sure there are more that I have forgotten, but it just gives a sense of how quickly she is picking up english!

She loves to dance and music. She is not a huge fan of TV, but the shows that grab her attention most are Little Bill (that coincidentally have the same episodes on that I watched 11 years ago with Jacob), Olivia, and the Fresh beat band.

We saw the cardiologist last week and she has another heart catherization scheduled for February 18th. They think that there are some better veins to the lung that they could not get into on the initial cath. During this cath they will use the CT scan that she had as a road map to her vessels and be measuring pressures, etc. If they can do something to get her better oxygen, they will do it within the cath procedure. We are just hoping that some of those vessels are just blocked and not scarred. It they are not scarred than their may be some surgical interventions that they can do, we just won't know until we have the test done. Fingers and toes crossed!

We just love and adore this little girl. She is truly a joy... funny, loving, and sweet. We know that her abandonment must have been a difficult decision for her birth parents, being that they had her for the first 6 months of her life. I could not imagine making this decision and feel that they made the choice to better her life. I have no idea who her birth parents are, but I just wish that they somehow know that she is happy and loved.