As far as our adoption of Chance goes, we are now done with our Home Study, our I800a has been submitted and we working on our Dossier. Once that is completed, it will be shipped off to Chance's country and after it is reviewed and approved, we will be invited there to meet him. I am hoping this will be sometime in the late summer or early fall, but with adoption, you just never know.
We recently got a short update on Chance telling us that he is doing OK but has been fighting bronchitis. If you think of it, please say a prayer that our lil man will get healthy and stay healthy. He is continuing to grow at a steady pace, so that is encouraging!
Claudia is doing so well! I swear she grew overnight. We went from a size 18 months to a 24month-2T all of a sudden. Claudia is definitely getting heavier and looks so much taller. She has gained about 6lbs and grown 3 inches since coming home, and I think most of that has been over the last 2 months! Where did my little girl go?
Claudia recently got new glasses as her Miraflex were too tight against her eyelashes and she wanted nothing to do with them. She now has a regular, metal frame pair of glasses that she like much better. They stay on better and make her look so grown up!
Our sweet girl went in for a laryngoscopy recently and they found that she has chronic laryngitis which is likely the cause of her deep voice. At this time, there is not much to be done about it but hopefully her Speech Therapist can work with this. Claudia also had an ear tube placed in one ear (the other ear canal is still too small). The ENT drained a significant amount of fluid from behind both ear drums, so hopefully Claudia is hearing better now. Our hope is that she will soon start using her voice to speak instead of her sign language and Dynavox. I long for the day when she consistently calls me mommy <3 p="">
Claudia is much more steady on her feet and is starting to move much faster, she will be running in no time! She is very active and loves to climb all over Jason and I. She loves to play, do puzzles and read books. She also loves to eat! There are few foods that she won't eat after trying them. Transitions between foods (at one sitting) can sometimes cause her frustration and she does not always want to switch but once she tries the new food she is usually OK.
I have said it before and I will say it again, Claudia is one smart cookie! She is very good at watching someone do something and then copying that behavior later (when she wants). Some examples are putting the napkin on her plate when she is done eating, brushing her tray off into the garbage and putting dishes into the sink. She also is into imitating the dog lately. Whenever the dog starts barking, Claudia starts making her dog sounds. One day while Claudia was eating, the dog was licking her lips in anticipation. Claudia saw this and started sticking her tongue out and licking her own lips! She cracks me up!
Claudia has always liked to make people laugh. Even when we first got her she made this strange sound that would always make people laugh, so she kept on doing it. She has long since grown out of that particular behavior but still likes to make people laugh. One day while riding in the car, I looked in my rear view mirror and saw Claudia making faces. I started laughing, so she kept on making the face. I told her it was a "funny face" and now anytime we tell her (if she is in the mood) to show us her funny face she does it. I have some pics of it below!
Enjoys some pics from the last couple of months:
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| Crazy Hair Day at school :) |
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| Looking grown up in her new glasses! |
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| Funny Face! |
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| Funny Face! |
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| Funny Face! |
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| Happy girl :) |
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| Sleepy girl |
