I'm pretty sure that many of you by now are 100% certain that I and my family have fallen off the face of the Earth. You might be actually shocked to find that *gasp!* we are still in fact here, and that I have not forgotten about my blog!!! Actually, very shortly after recovering from the China trip, we lost internet for a couple of months, and after that, I did forget about the blog for awhile, and then we got internet back and I started some college courses and became a very busy girl.
So! Here I am. Ready to tell you about Chloe!
First off, she is doing great. Every day she learns more and more English. And we can finally(typically) communicate with her really well. A normal conversation with her looks like this:
(Btw, a nickname I have for her is Piglet.)
Chloe: Camewon, my Pigget? (She says "my" instead of "am I", "mine" or "I am", and she also can't pronounce the letter L or R.)
Me: Yes, you are.
Chloe grins broadly: Nooooo! My Chloe! (Which she says "Koe") You Pigget! My not Pigget...
Me: Naw, I'm not Piglet! You are.
And then, of course, we go on and on and back and forth... Her favorite question is, like most 4 year olds, "What's that?" And yes, I occasionally argue with my 4 year old sister... Which gets on mom's nerves, but we sure do enjoy it!
She's actually learning how to read and beginning to saw on a violin now. She's extremely smart, especially for her age, and we are constantly amused by her wild ideas and surprised with how smart she can be. She is a great imitator... Which can be very frightening at times... She will pick up the oddest things when we are out in public, then come home imitating away and leaving us baffled at where she learned such things. She loves to sing... Which brings me to a story.
Once, we were heading up to the mountains for a day of driving and we stopped at a Baskin-Robins for coffee. (Yes, some people in our family have fallen into the awful habit of drinking coffee like it's going out of style. I've learned not to, for the sake of other's ears and poor nerves...) Now, we had never taken her to one of these before, so we still to this day do not understand how she knew this, but she saw the store and suddenly went from sleepy, to bouncing in her car seat, screaming: "YAY! ICESCREAM!!!" And then breaks into a very happy "Jesus Loves Me". We burst out laughing and then began to question how she knew ice cream even existed there.
So, for right now, I have to go study, but I promise to make updates much sooner than I have, and that I will soon post the story of China and also her prosthetic, which, by the way, is amazing... You can hardly tell that she doesn't have a leg, she walks so well.
Thank you all for your prayers. They were (and still are) much needed. We barely made it through China, but thank God we did and now have a sweet, beautiful little Chloe.
Thank you again.
