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Friday,
October 31, 2009
Another special month has gone by with lots of memories made!!
Our first very special memory was a trip to the Oklahoma County
Courthouse on September 29th to complete Abree’s adoption and
officially change her name. Judge Paddleford reviewed Abree’s
case and confidently GRANTED the adoption!! It was an exciting
and special final step in her adoption process….what a
BLESSING!!!
On October 2nd, we went to visit Thomas the Tank Engine and Sir
Topham Hatt at “A Day Out With Thomas.” The kids had a great
time playing with toy trains, getting tattoos, jumping in a moon
bounce, and meeting Thomas and Sir Topham Hatt. So much fun!
Our next adventure was to Grapevine, Texas to Great Wolf Lodge
on October 15th and 16th. The kids had a FANTASTIC time playing
in the water! Abree loved the kiddie area with slides and
fountains! She also loved the wave pool and the lazy river. At
first, she was a little scared of the slides, but once she
watched big sister and brother go down several times, she
decided to join in the fun! Once she got started, there was no
stopping her…she could have stayed there forever!! They even got
to go on a trick-or-treating adventure throughout the entire
lodge which was so much fun!
From Great Wolf Lodge, we traveled further south to Austin to
visit Abree’s special friend from Ghana, Kiana. Abree and Bria
were so happy to see their best friends Kiana and Maddy! The
girls played and played and played some more! We went to a
pumpkin patch and Abree was able to ride a horse for the first
time! She was very, very brave…she didn’t even cry!! We also
went on a hayride, played on the playground, had our faces
painted, went on a train ride, and of course picked out a
pumpkin. Abree did not take long at all to pick out her pumpkin
and she was so proud of her choice! We had a wonderful time and
look forward to getting the girls back together soon!
For Halloween, Little Flower Abree, Bumblebee Bria, and Power
Ranger Kaden got all dressed up to go to Frontier City to ride
some fun rides. We spent a few hours riding rides and
sightseeing all the fun costumes! Abree rode the flying dragons,
the teacups, the pirate ship, and the kiddie roller coaster….she
had a blast! After a short nap, we got all dressed up again to
go trick-or-treating that evening with cousin Grace and big
brother and sister. She really got into trick-or-treating in our
neighborhood. She would even say, “trick-or-treat” which sounded
more like “tick-or-tea.” She eventually had so much candy she
was dragging her candy bag behind her. Towards the end of our
trick-or-treating adventure, I told the bigger kids to go ahead
to the next house by themselves and Abree would stay with me
because she had sooo much candy. When she saw them going towards
the next house, she wiggled right out of my hands and pulled her
heavy candy bag straight up to the door to get yet another piece
of candy. It was so cute!!!
Halloween will always hold a SPECIAL, SPECIAL place in my heart
because a year ago on Halloween day is when I first met our
precious baby girl! I will never forget the overwhelming feeling
of love I had for sweet Abree when Lydia walked her through the
door of the baby room at Beacon House. She was more beautiful
and precious than I ever dreamed!! It still brings tears to my
eyes just thinking about those special and amazing days in
Ghana…holding her, staring at her, loving her, feeding her,
bonding with her…what an amazing journey!!!
Abree’s vocabulary is exploding! She is saying too many words to
keep up with! One of her cute little sayings right now is “I be
right back, oh-tay.” When she says this, she holds up her little
index finger and then runs away to do whatever she needs to
do…so cute! When she wakes up in the mornings she says “Good
morning, Kaden. (Dood Morna, Taden) Good morning, Bria (Bee-uh)
Good morning, Daddy. Good morning, Mamma.” She has such
wonderful manners—she thanks us for anything and everything!
Even after complaining through a session of combing her hair,
she will always thank us at the end. She is SO precious! She
listens and obeys extremely well—we understand each day why the
girls at the orphanage continued to stress to us what a good
girl she is. She is amazingly good!!! She hardly ever cries or
gets cranky—she has such a beautiful, gentle personality!
We have been working hard along with Abree’s Speech Pathologist
to teach her the animal sounds. For several weeks, we have asked
her what does a cow say, and she replies, “cow.” We had tried to
teach her to recognize the animals for so long, that she did not
understand what we were asking when we asked her what the
animals say. Finally one day, it clicked, and she understood
what we were asking and she replied with the appropriate animal
sounds for cow (moo), horse (naaa), chicken (bah bah bah), duck
(kak kak), dog (fuff fuff), and cat (neow neow) ALL in ONE day!!
Soon after she learned the animal sounds, we were having chicken
for dinner one night and the kids were taking turns praying
before dinner. When it was Abree’s turn, she said lots of mumble
words and at the end of her prayer she said, “chicken, bah bah
bah, Amen.” She was thanking God for the chicken!! It was SOOOOO
cute!!!!
We have also been working on recognizing colors. During speech
therapy, Mrs. Nita will put out a blue basket, red basket and a
yellow basket and numerous items that are blue, red, and yellow.
Abree has to put the items into the correctly colored basket and
she is awesome at it! She can match colors perfectly, but we are
still working on naming the colors. She is doing so wonderful in
such a short time!
She has gotten four new teeth since she has been home and she is
growing and growing. She decided all by herself that it was time
to start using the potty, and she has done AWESOME with potty
training! She is even dry every day at naptime and almost every
night as well. The first few weeks she had a few accidents, but
we have been accident free for several days now—she is a very
smart girl!!
We are SO very excited about the coming months with the holidays
and a special trip to Disney World in November! We cannot wait
to see the excitement on her face as she experiences the magic
of Disney!! What a complete JOY it is to watch her as she enjoys
so many fun “firsts!” We will never be able to thank our
Heavenly Father enough for leading us on this miraculous journey
to one of the biggest blessings of our lives…a precious,
precious baby girl!!!!!
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Judge Paddleford and our lawyer,
Jon Laasch after the re-adoption was granted!!
Happy Girl!! Adoption Final!!!!
Fun at A Day Out With Thomas
-- meeting Sir Topham Hatt
A Fun Trip to Great Wolf Lodge!!!
We Love This Place!!!!
I LOVE the water slides!
So happy to see my special friend, Kiana! |
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