An update and frustration

Grace with her first flowers.



We'll start with the frustration, because that is what I'm currently feeling. Being the fabulous adoptive mother that I am (HA) I made an appointment for Grace to see the IA Doc. This is the one that proclaimed her fairly low risk before we accepted her referral. The traffic in our fair Seattle right now is at an all time nightmare level, roads closed ect. so I drop all four boys off at a Saint of a friends and head off, almost 2 hours before the appointment. Did we see the Doc? No, traffic was so bad we couldn't get there in the allotted time. They cut me some slack and gave me an extra half hour, but we just plain couldn't make it. They then asked if I wanted to re-schedule. That would be no, I think my regular pedi can handle this and I'm never spending three plus hours in the car for no reason again. I wanted to cry I was so frustrated, I'm thinking about a nice tall alcohol filled drink after dinner.

Now on to the part people are interested in, Grace. She'll have been with us five weeks tomorrow, it seems hard to believe. Everywhere we go people tell us how beautiful and happy she is, and they are right she is just one happy girl.

Attachment

She is really attached to me, she calls me Mum or mumah, but she sometimes call the door this which takes some of the shine off. Yesterday we went to a birthday party at one of those huge warehouses filled with inflatable things. I wasn't sure what Grace would do, but she was off like a shot and running and bouncing with the kids. She would come to me for a hug every five minutes or so, but she was very happy to just play. We had two female friends over last week and their kids. Grace would play with the kids, but she wouldn't get near the Mom's, only me (yay). Now her attachment to Scott is not so great, she still cries if her holds her or does anything for her and I'm home. He is getting so frustrated and disappointed with this. Any suggestions to help them bond would be greatly appreciated.

Eating

She eats most anything and we are seeing some progress with her food issues. Scott did laugh when I got all excited, she has left food, or people eating at the table three times now. Not in a row, but over the past week. I think maybe somewhere in her brain she is realizing that she is getting enough food. She still freaks if anyone eats and she doesn't have some too, but I'm working on the other issue right now.

Speech

This is my big concern. It seems like she's no longer using the English that she had. She babbles and sings nonsense, like a typical toddler but she is not picking up or using new words. Grace doesn't like to be read to, I mean sit still and be read to, you can read to her while she plays, so that isn't helping. I'm thinking that speech therapy is going to be in he near future.

All in all we have the world's cutest and happiest little girl. She is also very smart and very dramatic. Five weeks in and we know we hit the jackpot!