So yesterday…too cute! Annalise and I were having a rest time after school, and she always likes to chit chat to begin with. So, she had grabbed my arm and put it over her when she noticed a freckle on my arm. She asked what it was, and I told her a freckle. Well she set to looking all over for one on her! She found a little red mark on her arm and asked if that was one. I just went along with it and said, yes, since I was understanding her need to be like mommy. Well she wasn’t terribly satisfied, so she kept looking around, and finally did find one.  She was so excited, and said, Annalise freckle, mommy freckle. Then she asked about the boys and daddy. I informed her that yes they all had one too. She was very pleased about it. When the boys came home from school she questioned them regarding this novelty, and was pleased to find that yes, indeed they did have one just like her!!

It is so fun to see the process of her learning to trust us and to love us. She has yet to say the words “I love you”, however, she says in so many ways. Typically she will grab our arm and just squeeze really hard, and make the sound you might make when you kiss someone, MMMmmm. She will also run up to us just to touch us and then off to play again, or she might run up and ask for a kissy. We have been amazed at the increase in her vocab. There are many phrases she is saying very clearly, such as “I want this”, or “what you doin?” as well as a few others. Other things are a little harder to understand, but if you know the subject she is referring to, and what happened just previously, then you can follow along in her stories. She seems to love to tell us all about everything that happens.

Well, that is all for now…

In His Watchcare,

Joy