Home a Month

We have been home a month now! Lila is doing great--adding more food to her "will eat list". We started her out on stage 1 babyfood and have now progressed to stage 2 with snacks of vanilla wafers and baby cheese puffs!She will eat any babyfood fruit but only sweet potatoes and squash babyfood veggies. sounds like she has a sweet tooth! I can't complain though because I was prepared for the worst with feeding and she is progressing right along! According to my scale she has gained 2 lbs in a month! We took her to to the International Adoption clinic at UAB--they did bloodwork and gave her a full examination. She is a little underweight but otherwise checks out fine!

She is attaching to us--and we are totally attached to her! She sleeps with Darren and I right now to help with the bonding (good excuse anyway!)--we love snuggling with her. It is great having a baby around the house again! She keeps me running though and whew! gets into everything!!! She acts like she has always been with us--I am so proud of her and how far she has come in 1 month. I look into those dark eyes and I don't see that sadness anymore--her eyes sparkle now. But with what she has had to deal with and overcome in her short life has made me realize even at 15 mths she is a stronger person than me. We feel blessed to have her in our life!

Her 3 older brothers have totally spoiled her rotten! By all means she deserves it! She even has this little drama queen cry/whine --you know the kind with no tears---but she knows one or all of her brothers will come running and pick her up. She gets excited when one of them comes in the room because it is play time! They twirl her around and bounce her up and down--she will have the biggest grin on her face--I'm trying to get a picture of it. But here a few pictures of this past month home....and yes that is a pink Alabama football jersey!