I just have to say thank you to everyone who followed our blog and prayed for us.  Our adjustment has been wonderful!  Amy and Zoe are sleeping well.  They are getting along great. Our social worker and dear friend, Miss Doris, has been praying that no matter how different the girls were, they would always be best friends.  God heard and answered.  Two important things have happened.  First, Amy loves to dig in the dirt with Zoe.  This was probably the most important thing for Zoe.  She is an outside nature girl.  Second, since Zoe is so neat and organized, it would have driven her crazy to have a messy sister in her room, but Amy is very neat and organized and always cleans up after herself.

 

 Amy loves all her siblings.  She hugs them when they come and go...if we could just get her to learn their names  :-)  She calls Zoe, ZOEEEE;  Hannah  Han-da; and the boys she calls Ge-Ge  Xiao (little big brother) and Ge-Ge Da (Big big brother). I have to remind myself that this is very Chinese.  They don't call each other by names-only relationships.  She totally loves her grandparents and yells at me everyday about going to see them.  (Remember spirited child!!!)

 

Amy has started to do some school.  I got her some workbooks at a kindergarten level.  The math is a breeze.  She did 21 pages at the dinner table the other night.  The Language is coming.  I thought it would be hard because I can't say, "Look Amy, D is for dog when she calls that animal a gou [Gow].  But it seems as though she is really bright and has enough grasp of her own language to understand that in English it is the same thing but said differently.  Today we did a page and I had her listen to see if the things started with the same letter.  She listened carefully and got it!  I know she won't remember the names of the words but she understood that they started with the same letter and she could hear it.  Praise God!

 

I feel so much more relaxed this time.  I don't know if it is experience or prayer.  I just realize that we don't have to do/say/learn everything today.  We have the rest of our lives to work this out.  Amy must sense this because as spirited as she is,  she tells me "no" but then usually does what I ask anyway.  The longest exhibiting of her will we have had is about 4 minutes.  Yippee!!!

 

I will see if I can get Mike to post some more pictures.  We have some great ones of  the girls wearing Chinese dresses to Easter Sunday,  Amy doing the Easter egg hunt at Church Saturday morning, and us feeding the giraffes at the Safari Park in Guangzhou. 

Thank you again,

Because of Him,

Kim