Life Is Good

Sometimes you just need some perspective. I complain so much about things and about E and how much harder she is than Sam. She is just different and I probably don't really remember Sam at this age. He was probably trouble too and I have just forgotten. We got a box of clothes today from Mae. She was one of E's "sisters" in the orphanage. Her parents Maureen and Stu are just great and we miss them a lot. One piece was the pajamas E is wearing in the picture. It is cheesy, but reminds me that Life is Good.

The wrapping on her fingers is to keep her from picking at her face. In case you were wondering.

OPF

People always ask if E is a good eater. Probably because that is a normal question to ask of kids, probably because she is so tiny and they wonder if she eats and probably because she is from China and they might think she would have had a hard time adjusting to our food and only want to eat rice with chopsticks. I always say she only likes to eat what ever Sam is eating. Grandpa Kent calls it, OPF, Other People's Food. Sam is so good about sharing his food with her.

Speaking of Grandpa Kent, she has been having a great time going over to visit him. He has come up with silly games to play with her and she loves it. She still adores Grammy too. I can't even mention their names in front of her because she gets all excited and goes to look out the window for them.

Now that E is walking her personality is really changing. She is a bit more independent and getting really funny. She is also a huge tease. The funny thing is that I can give her directions and she follows them. I am not used to that at all. Sam and David never follow my directions. I can hand her something and tell her take it to Sam and she will. They can even be a few steps. She will go in the bathroom drawers, take something out to play with and then put it back in the right drawer. This is amazing to me. No one else in our house does that. I hope I can keep her love of putting things away strong.

The kids and David went to Discovery World to see a display of Star Wars robots.

Happy Halloween

Ok, I know I am really late in posting this. Halloween was so much fun this year. Sam wanted to be a penguin and he said E did too. So Sam and David went to the fabric store and got ALOT of fleece and a pattern. The pattern was for kids and for adults, lucky me! So I made a costume for me too. We decided it would be way too much fleece to make a penguin costume for David, so he was the zoo keeper. Since E had just learned to walk, she made a great penguin, waddeling around. Sam was so cute too, I was so proud of him that he wanted to be a penguin and not something violent or scary. He is such a good kid. I hope that this love of fleece and animals will continue for a while. I am not sure though. Over the halloween week, we had a lot of events and chances to wear our costumes. First was trick or treating in my parent's neighboorhood, then there was the parade at Sam's school and the halloween party at the discovery world and then Jenna's birthday party and neighboorhood block party. The kids loved dressing up and everyone loved their costumes. They won the contest at the discovery world for best costumes!