A Busy Week of Playing

We finally got a haircut! I deliberately waited until it was really in her eyes and bothering her. She had told us in the second Skype visit we had that she wanted long hair and didn't want it cut. I'm sure, looking at pictures, that Chung Yi let her grow her hair as long as they could handle it, knowing she was coming with us the end of December. But in the earlier pictures from when she first went there, it was SO short! Basically a boy cut, so she's been very attached to her longer hair.

From the look on her face in the chair, you'd think she was not having a good time, but she was! Anne was wonderful with her and she really did have fun. Not a tear in sight!



Here she is in her car seat, smiling, right afterwards. I had the window down a bit and the wind was blowing in her face, which she loves. She was a happy girl!


This is her proud smile after making her bed by herself (well, with a little help). We're working on the chores chart and getting Awesome stickers. One of those is making the bed. She still isn't sure about the bed. I know she slept on the floor on a mat with a comforter. She still wants to sleep on the floor in her room and has made a pallet with an extra comforter. She tells me her new bed makes her back hurt. Hmmmm....hard to tell if she's heard someone say that or what? I'm still working on sleeping in the bed though, between the sheets (which is only partially successful). We'll see...


Speaking of sleeping - last night was just one of those nights, I suppose. I guess we were too late to bed to begin with, but she was in our room at 2am. I got her back to sleep about 2:50, went back downstairs, but she was screaming by 3:30. This went on all night. I tried everything I could think of, at that time of night. I stayed in her room, with my hand on her back till she went to sleep, then went to the playroom bed (which is on the same floor). That didn't work. I tried sitting in her chair. That didn't work. When she came to the playroom bed for the 3rd time, I just let her sleep there with me.

Which meant that I didn't sleep! She wiggles. She kicks. She squirms. All in her sleep! And she has a way of finding the center of the bed, no matter what size bed it is! So, after an hour of that, I picked her up and put back in her bed. I think she was just so tired, she stayed there. But it was also about 5am by that point.

This morning I let her sleep till 8:00, not necessarily because I wanted to, but because I couldn't get up any earlier!

I think that's what is so wearing - it's not the getting up in the middle of the night to get her back to bed. It's the staying awake for 30-50 minutes in the middle of the night while she goes back to sleep that does it to me! I'm hoping it gets better soon.


I heard this hysterical laughter coming from across the room. When I got up to look, this is what I found. Joy was in Katrina's crate, with her bowl which had cake in it. She had somehow managed to get Katrina to come in with her. I'm sure the cake played a part in that. Don't you think?



These are photos from yesterday after the snow storm. Joy and Tim made a Snow Woman. It's hard to see the detail in the photo, but she's really quite wonderful. It's a Chinese woman, with hair buns on the sides of her head, sitting on her legs. They had a great time!