Tuesday, October 24, 2006

It is hard to believe we have been home for one week! I miss waking up each morning and looking out the window at the breathtaking view of West Lake! Now I just wake up and look out the window at the beautiful leaves changing colors and praise God for bringing us home safely! What an awesome God we serve! Each day we are seeing God work on our little Zoe’s heart. Each day she is letting us love her even more than the day before! We had a rough 4 days with the whole time change-Zoe wanted to wake up at 2:30 am and stayed up until about 5:30 am then back to sleep until 7:30. After a couple of days without naps she finally slept through the night-Praise God! Tom and I got a nasty cold virus as soon as we got home and with no sleep on top of it we were draggin’.

We love to watch Zoe with Zach and Bay! She adores both of them and mimics everything they say and do! They introduced Zoe to her first WWF wrestling match. At first she just sat back in awe and took it all in. The next night she was on top of Tom, Zach and Bay screaming at the top of her lungs! Bay could not stand it any longer and just had to paint Zoe’s fingernails and toenails. Zoe couldn’t get to BaBa fast enough to show him and get his approval of his pretty girl! She is 100% a girly girl! She loves to walk around the house with jewelry on, backpack on, sunglasses on and a hat or hair bow in her hair! Zoe loves to clown around and make Zach and Bay laugh. She squints her little eyes and points her little finger and babbles something to them in Chinese and they just die laughing so Zoe keeps up her performance. It seems as if we have two performers in our family and both of them love the spotlight!

On Sunday Zoe attended her first church service and Sunday school class and she did pretty good! Zoe and Bailey looked so cute in their matching China Girl dresses! During praise and worship she sang “I’m coming back to the heart of worship” at the top of her lungs and I am sure God was just smiling down on her and He understood every word she said. Thanks to my friend Cindi for her endless supply of stickers and paper we made it ¾ of the way through church service before we had to leave! I decided when Zoe tried to attack the man in front of us with her ink pen it was a good time to exit! When we pray at the table it is so cute to see her hold hands with the kids then in her little innocent voice say Amen!

We have made 2 trips to the doctor already and I am sure by her screams that she doesn’t want to see any more needles for awhile. I think I am pretty safe saying that Tom is ok with not having to catch any more urine samples and poop samples also. I am so thankful that he was here to do the dirty work-I am sure that is why God gave him and iron stomach. The doctors just laughed when I handed him her medical records all written in Chinese. He looked her over and said she looked great. He did hear a large heart murmur, but said that was common after the surgery she had. Our doctor also gave us a referral to a Pediatric Cardiologist and Tom and I are anxious to hear what they have to say! We want to know exactly what her surgery entailed and if she will need any more surgeries. Today she got five shots and 10 mm of blood drawn and by the end of the night her little legs were so sore she cried if I sat her down to walk. She kept saying “Owies”! After a stressful morning we treated Zoe to the China Buffet and she ate her little heart out all the while saying “Yummy!” The owners of the restaurant all tried to talk to Zoe in Chinese and she would have none of that! Finally as we were leaving she said goodbye in Chinese. I also felt the need to introduce her to M&M’s and I know for sure she is my girl because she ate the entire bag and wanted more. Chocolate always makes a yucky day better!