Home 4 weeks ***Edited to add a picture***

Oh the girl LOVES glasses!

I can hardly believe that we have been home 4 weeks today. It was not until I looked at my blog that I realized that today is Wednesday. I have always had a hard time with what day of the week it is and usually end up asking some one at least once or twice.

The last 2 days I spent with my sister and her little man Sloan who is just 4 months younger then Anna and a whole lot bigger. It is too funny to see them play together. Seeing Anna with other kids has been wonderful. Today was my Mother's birthday and we all hung out. More on that another time.

I fear that most of what I have written about recently has seemed quite negative. I would say that processing all the thoughts and feelings that I have right now has been difficult. Actually more difficult then I ever thought it would be. With that being said I hope that I am going to start to coast a bit now. Anna fell asleep early tonight okay so I cheated and kept her out late then drove an extra lap around the block but does that matter?

Here are some things that I have noticed that Anna does now and did not do when we first came home.

1. Fake cry. Yup she has mastered the art of a fake cry to get my attention. It started about a week ago one night when we were in her room playing. Then my niece Jaime came over with her son Hans and the next day we played faked cry most of the day.


2. When she wants to point at some thing she grabs my pointer finger and uses it as a pointer.


3. The door bell scared her. Sounds funny but she was like 'What is that noise?' Now she enjoys playing with the door bell and /or any other button or switch.


4. She says 'Tickle, Tickle, Tickle' This is the funniest because when she first came to me that is how I got her to smile. Then it progressed to her tickling herself, then me and now her baby dolls.


5. She shows love to her babies. She will walk up to me and pretend cries like it is them crying then she looks for me to comfort them. So I do then I pick her up and do the same thing to her.


6. Today is the first day that she has fallen asleep laying next to me at nap time the whole time she looked me square in the eye.


7. She LOVES apple cider vinegar. I know I read something about this an attachment but for the life of me I can not remember what it meant so if you know please throw me a bone and tell me.

Tonight she ate cake for the first time with my Mother. I am letting her practice eating cake after all her birthday is next week.