Monday Madness update...

I am up early today, it's back to work week for Mommy :(...

I have been dreading going back to work, but I will be fine once I'm there. I am excited to see all of my students, and meet all of the new ones. My schedule is actually pretty sweet. Monday & Tuesday 4:00-8:30, Wednesday 4:00-8:15, Thursday 4:30-7:00. I really can't complain at all. I have about the same amount of students and the schedule is a little less. My older students were combined, a lot this year, and we have broken some of the other classes up and my performance group this year is meeting a lot less...a lot less, and that's what really took up our weekends, and we're not working the weekends anymore. So wish me luck as I go back to work, and wish Daddy & the bug luck as this will be their first week together in the evening, and wish the Grandmas luck as this is the first week where they will be watching the bug Monday -Thursday. Good Luck to all!!

The bug is great!! We are now running a little bit. We now have seen the China squat a couple of times. She has learned how to twirl (chainé turn-lol). It is the cutest ever. She gets a little dizzy, but it is very sweet. She loves putting things in her Ni Hao Kai Lan car (in the seat), and then taking things right back out. She absolutely loves the Lego Mommy & Daddy got her for her birthday, plays with them all the time.

Avery goes down for her nap in the afternoon really well now. She takes a little cat nap usually in the morning on Mommy's shoulder, about 30 minutes. She has 3 cupboards in the kitchen that are hers, has her cups, and plates, and the glad ware in them. Loves to take them all out, and leave trails of it all throughout the kitchen. She loves our cat Koko. Pets her all the time, and says her name over and over and over. Sometimes it sounds like kumquat, and it makes us giggle. Every animal now is called Koko.

We have pictures of her all over the house, and would say to her, "Who's that?", and now when she points to the pictures she says, "that, that"...oops! Were trying to change that one, and keep saying, "Avery" over and over to her. It's cute though!

We went to the pediatric surgeons appt. on Thursday. Avery has a lymphangioma on her upper right arm. They said that the treatment used is usually 80-90% effective. That would be the treatment they did in China. We are just going to monitor it for the next 6 months. To make sure it doesn't get bigger. They took a measurement of it, and it is smaller than the measurements in China. So, that's good!! If it remains the same, or gets smaller, it means the treatments scarred the tissue and killed the cells, which is good. Then they will decide what and when to do anything if it is necessary. But the doctor's were not worried about it, and thought she looked good. So that was an awesome response, we were very happy and liked the doctor's a lot, they were very nice and very professional, and very informative-GREAT!! :)

Avery is 3 inches longer in length, and has gained about 2 pounds-She is definitely a lot heavier than when we got home.

We are really going to try to adopt again within our time limit of our dossier being still good/valid. We will have to file for an I-800 this time around for the immigration paperwork, which is a little different than the I-600 we applied for last time. Regardless, we still do the clearances, and fingerprints, and a home study update. The home study will be updated in 6 months for Avery anyways (part of the post placement). So this seems to be our path again. China changed this rule on August 17th , so it is definitely really worth thinking & praying about. We want Avery to have a sister, and we would like to do it as soon as possible. We just have to see if we can swing the rest of the financials while still recovering from this past trip. Keep your fingers crossed for us.

Everything is great here. Life is good...really great!!

Hope all is well in your world too!!