Four Months Home!

As of September 11, Florie had been HOME for four months.  That sounds just plain crazy to me....she seems like she has been with us forever, and she is just part of our family now.  But, then I think of how far she has come....and what a strong, loving, amazing little girl she is...can you imagine leaving EVERYTHING you have ever known, whether it was "good" or "bad" for you? Leaving the building you had been in for your entire life, the nannies, the friends (aka family), the bed you slept in night after night, the clothes you wore, the toys you played with, the bottle you drank from, the food, the smells, EVERYTHING??  How long do you think it would take for you to "adjust," or to feel normal, or to even accept a new normal?  Florie is resilient, she is STRONG, she is tenacious....and she has been HOME for four whole beautiful months!

Likes at four months Home:

Salted Almonds

Gum 

Orange Juice

Ice Cream

Eggs

Nutella

Loading/Unloading the dishwasher

Playing at the park

Being Outside

Moma's makeup

"helping" around the house....getting the dog food out, the fish food, refolding laundry ;)

Sleeping with her baby, her puppy, and her turtle

Reading

Stroller Rides

Wrestling with Daddy

Dislikes:

Vegetables

Bread

White Milk

Mommy leaving (though now with Daddy it only takes about 1 minute to recover!)

Being told No (she is TWO!)

Her brothers leaving for the day

Dirty Diapers

Staying Dressed at Home

Being Tired

Florie's vocabulary continues to grow...and we still work on SIGNS.  She is now putting words together (like May i please have_____?).  She is eating well, still on the bottle twice a day....but we will work on that after Christmas.  As Alex said tonight when he was tickling her....doesn't she just have the sweetest laugh!

FOUR MONTHS....WOW!