Our Family Blog – Mike, Louanne, Nadia, Amelie, & Dani
I think Mike’s facebook status last night covers it:
“Four weeks today. And when I put Amelie to bed tonight she only gave me about a half-second whimper when I walked out of her room. Oh how far we have come from the eardrum bursting, turn you to stone, wake the dead, banshee wailing that we started with. Thanks to our gracious God for a small miracle. Quiet is good.”
I am oh so thankful to God that we have gone from this:
to this:
Amelie is such a happy child and we are blessed that she is comfortable with us now so we get to see the happy girl. She likes to play games and loves to be tickled. She comes to us for hugs and likes to have her forehead kissed. She wants to do every single thing Nadia does and will run after her screaming “JIE JIE!!!” She loves to be thrown up in the air by Mike and swung around just like Nadia. She LOVES TO SING!! If Nadia starts to sing or she hears something she likes in the car she starts trying to imitate it. Nadia liked music at this age, but Amelie is genuinely trying to imitate the same rhythm patterns, which I find amazing.
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Edit (added by Mike):
I’m thankful that is just a few weeks she went from recoiling from me while screaming in terror to wanting me to hold her, give her kisses, play with her, and so on. What a relief and delight!
The Chinese like to have little children and babies all bundled up. The day we got Amelie was no exception. This is how she was dressed on Gotcha Day.
Layer 1 – sweater and socks
Layer 2 – topped with winter PJ’s.
Layer 3 – Topped with snow pants, boots and a lined jacket.
And we were expected to bring a winter coat and hat for her to take her back to the hotel, which of course we did so the ladies wouldn’t come after us 🙂