3 months down

Elijah - Toby Mac wanna be

&

Hannah Grace - Miss Priss true Southern Belle

3 months ago our lives changed forever - for the best! We walked into the Beijing Social Welfare Institute to meet the newest Morris. It seems strange that she has only been with us for just a short 3 months. She has grown so much during that time. She has learned as much in those 3 months that most kids learn in 3 years.

So what have we learned so far?

• bandaids stick better if you put clear tape on top of them
• if the boys are arguing, all you have to do is put on a pouty face & run to Mama with a sad story - works like a charm
• if anything gets hurt - it requires MANY bandaids
• forks & spoons aren't as hard to use as originally thought
• bread is still poisonous
• bugs (& anything crawling) are of the devil
• we don't always like being spoken to in Mandarin
• Bro. Robin hung the moon
• if you shake your head yes to everything - it works most of the time, even when you are wrong (then it gets smiles out of the adults)
• when you let your hair grow out - it can be difficult to accept that you MUST wear either a clip or bow - she wants long hair & mama wants to see her eyes
• friends are easy to make
• school will be fun but we've gotta work on a longer attention span
• NO is a universal word
• attitude comes with being 4
• after experiencing many family birthdays you wake up everyday expecting today to be the "famous Dec.22"
• Christmas needs to hurry up & get here cause she needs her own camera
• shopping is alot more fun with a girl than with a boy
• she wants to go to "opia" to meet Elwwie-Joey
• sleep doesn't come very fast if you've had ice cream after 8:00
• short legs make riding toys very interesting (we're going shopping this weekend to fix this problem)
• hot weather can be tolerated when you stay in the house naked
• ALL things are MINE
• all books are now Bibles
• it's more fun to wear big people shoes instead of ones that acutally fit
• she would grow gills & live in the water if we'd let her
• she agrees with Noah that thunder isn't very nice
• its still easier to be carried than to actually walk on her own
• still trying to decide: are tattle tales born or created? LOL
• singing into a microphone is lots more fun than just plain ol' singing
• beds are squishy enough here to jump on them
• bathrooms aren't places of privacy for anyone (boy or girl)
• she has mastered dot to dot, memory, & whack a mole on Dad's phone
• mosquito repellant is a MUST
• she's very flexible
• she gets nervous anytime we pull into a parking garage because she thinks she's going back to a hospital (the international adoption clinic took 9 viles of blood & I don't think she will ever forget or forgive them!)
• she commands attention wherever she goes
• she has given up the title of princess for the bigger title of Queen (can you say bossy?)
• she makes a great nurse - very loving & comforting
• & much, much more...

We love ya sister. Can't wait to see what fun adventures we are going to have in the next 3 months.