Home for 3 weeks!!

Today has been 3 weeks since we have been home.  Kinsley is really adjusting very well.  She is saying more and more words.  She can say her name, all gone, ok, in a minute, belly button, no, go to get the paper, umm-umm, light, and several more that I can’t remember.  She understands most of the things we say to her, although she can’t say them on her own.  She jabbers constantly, we don’t know if it is baby talk or Chinese.  She tries to sing the ABC’s with a CD we play for her or with a toy she has that plays the ABC’s song.  She loves the wheels on the bus song also.  She is sleeping mostly all through the night.  She sleeps at the foot of our bed (by her choice).  We gave up on her own bed for now.  She does not like to be alone at night, I guess in the orphanage she was always around others.  She will wake up most nights at 2:30 am and whines a little, but we re-assure her that we are there and she goes right back to sleep.  She wears a pull-up or a diaper at night and sometimes she is still dry when she wakes up.  She does very well going to the bathroom during the day.  We have only had a couple of accidents.  During her nap time if she falls asleep and I forget to put a pull-up on her I sometimes put a piece of a cut up vinyl tablecloth under her bottom just in case she has an accident.  This morning I was playing with her and acting like I was taking a nap and she ran to her room and came back with a piece of that tablecloth and tried to put it under my bottom.  We are really enjoying her.  She seems to be so smart.  She copies many of the things we do.  This morning, when the phone rang, she ran to get her play phone and tried to answer it.  She loves to look at pics and videos of herself on the computer.  She raises her hands and says Yea! Yea! and squeals when she sees herself.  I could go on and on.  Maybe it won’t be so long before I post next time. 

A trip to the park with Ba-Ba and Ma-Ma

Kinsley with her cousin Levi

Levi and Sharon brought Kinsley those overhalls!  So cute.  Levi fell playing at the playground.  Thank the Lord he did not break it!  Yea!!

feeding the babies

Rocking

She loves to go out on the front porch

Ma-Ma's make-up area

She is coping her ma-ma

So funny

While I was putting my make-up on, I had brought her little rocking chair into our room for her to watch a little TV.  Well, she dicided to scoot it into the bathroom with me and draw.  I didn't realize what she was doing until I turned around and saw her make-shift table. 

the park and picnic lunch!

It took her a while to warm up to the other children but she had fun.  We ended up with PBJ sandwiches.  Then home for a nap.

Yeah-Yeah took her to Spring park to play and to feed the ducks

Kinsley ate more of the bread than the ducks did. 

At the Library

Her first time to go to the library.  They have a fun time planned for the kids.  She is reaching for crayons from the box.  It is time to color!!

Her favorite breakfast

This is her breakfast every morning. She loves maple & brown sugar Oatmeal. She always finishes it all. Oh and don't forget the slice of bacon :-) And no-- she usually doesn't take that big of a bite.

Aunt Bonnie

Warming up to Lo-Lo

It took her a while but she loves her L0-Lo.

Having fun with Zac and Anna

Playing with her cousins

Matthew and Zac also played good with her.

Playing with her cousins

1. Playing with Kayla. 2. with Anna, Hannah, and Kaitlyn 3. Yeah-Yeah and Lo-Lo baught her a dora tent to play in! 4. Kaitlyn and Anna showing her how to ride a bike. 5. Hannah pulling her in the wagon. She had so much fun playing with her cousins!!

Our second trip to church

She did good for half of the service then we both went to the nursery for the second half. She was getting a little restless. I guess that is what 2 year olds do. She looked so cute in her little dress-- eating peanuts.

Helping

Helping Ma-Ma in the kitchen. She wants to be right there with you to see what you are doing.

Playing while Ma-Ma does her hair.

She loves her Ba-Ba

Yeah-Yeah and Lo-Lo come for a visit!

They brought her some grapes and a banana to snack on and also a little toy dog that sings B-I-N-G-O. She loves it!!

Ma-Ma showing Kinsley how we used the aloe to help her little hand.

Fun Fun

Playing

She talked Ba-Ba into getting into her bed! It was a tight fit!

Playing while Ma-Ma gets ready for the day

She wanted all of her things close by! That toy at her feet was the music toy we sent to China in her care package. They gave it back to us the day we got her. She always keeps it close to her.

Our first accident

She touched the hot stove eye. That made me feel so bad-- to let that happen to her!! I told Wayne we finally get her all the way from China then we hurt her :-( I know that hurt her so bad! She cried and cried. We put her hand in some ice water with a cloth in it to protect her skin from the ice. We also broke off some of our aloe plant and put it all over the burn. She was happy when we gave her 2 gogurt frozen yogurt's. She wanted her Ba-Ba to keep his hand over hers on the bowl the whole time.

Little Helper!

Helping Ba-Ba trim the dead leaves off of the plants! She followed behind him all over the house with that bag :-)

Our first Happy Meal!!

Her first happy meal--but she didn't want it! She wanted Wayne's Chicken Wrap instead. Wayne got to eat the hamburger!

Too Cool!

She does not like the sun in her eyes. The truth is, she was probably not in the sun much while living in the orphanage. She asks for her sunglasses everytime we get in the car!

Spaghetti

She loves spaghetti!! We had that for lunch after church.

First trip to Church

She did not want to put the bow in her hair until Ba-Ba wore it first. Second pic she did not want me to hold her for a pic at all, she wanted Ba-Ba to hold her. She has a mind of her own!!