We received Alena's translated Growth Report (history) the other day and to our surprise, learned that she has been with a foster family since she was a month old. Her foster mother sounds like she loves her very much and has taken excellent care of her. She does look extremely healthy and happy!
She was believed to be two days old when found and she was 6.6 lbs.
Her foster mom says as follows: She's like a cute doll. has a head of curly hair, a sweet little oval face, a pair of beautiful eyes shining under beetle brows, very lovable. She has developed quite on target. If you communicate with her she will give you a smile, she loves bathing and is very neat. When she soils her diaper, she cries seriously!! :0 She has a great interest in colorful paintings and will babble to pictures on the wall. She has strong limbs and jumps with great strength.
She is a sensible girl (well, of course!!), enjoys children's songs and will babble along. She enjoys TV ads and lying on the floor on her stomach.
She is very active and brave, loves music and colorful toys. She confronts injection needles and only moans while receiving a shot instead of crying loudly. (little toughy!!)
She has a bottle of formula three times a day and a bowl of congee (rice porridge) three times a day.
Her foster mom says "I have all my best wishes for her."
I , of course, cried my eyes out the first time I read this and then was instantly thankful for how well our baby girl is being taken care of until she is with us forever.
I have been frantically collecting financial statements for a homestudy update and Fred and I both went this week for physical updates. Sophia's passport is being processed as well as our NYS Childabuse clearance, again!! I hope and pray to have our Homestudy home visit done by sometime next week so that she can compile her report and we can get it off to Immigration. I don't have gray hair yet, but it can't be too far off!!
Mom and I went on a shopping spree to BabiesRus last week and boy did we do some damage! It was great therapy though! : )
Everyone in our group is guessing that we'll be traveling around December 26th, but we won't know anything about travel dates for sure for about another 3 weeks. I'll keep you updated!
Love,
Jenni
She was believed to be two days old when found and she was 6.6 lbs.
Her foster mom says as follows: She's like a cute doll. has a head of curly hair, a sweet little oval face, a pair of beautiful eyes shining under beetle brows, very lovable. She has developed quite on target. If you communicate with her she will give you a smile, she loves bathing and is very neat. When she soils her diaper, she cries seriously!! :0 She has a great interest in colorful paintings and will babble to pictures on the wall. She has strong limbs and jumps with great strength.
She is a sensible girl (well, of course!!), enjoys children's songs and will babble along. She enjoys TV ads and lying on the floor on her stomach.
She is very active and brave, loves music and colorful toys. She confronts injection needles and only moans while receiving a shot instead of crying loudly. (little toughy!!)
She has a bottle of formula three times a day and a bowl of congee (rice porridge) three times a day.
Her foster mom says "I have all my best wishes for her."
I , of course, cried my eyes out the first time I read this and then was instantly thankful for how well our baby girl is being taken care of until she is with us forever.
I have been frantically collecting financial statements for a homestudy update and Fred and I both went this week for physical updates. Sophia's passport is being processed as well as our NYS Childabuse clearance, again!! I hope and pray to have our Homestudy home visit done by sometime next week so that she can compile her report and we can get it off to Immigration. I don't have gray hair yet, but it can't be too far off!!
Mom and I went on a shopping spree to BabiesRus last week and boy did we do some damage! It was great therapy though! : )
Everyone in our group is guessing that we'll be traveling around December 26th, but we won't know anything about travel dates for sure for about another 3 weeks. I'll keep you updated!
Love,
Jenni
2 comments:
Jen, Alena is absolutely the most beautiful little girl. We can't wait to meet our newest grand-daughter. The time until will go quickly (I hope) for us all. We can't wait for pictures either. I've already taken the one of her on the bench; grinning from ear to ear ;and printed it to show her off to just about everybody. LOVE
Sheryl & Dad, Aaron & Lily, & Dan
I am so excited for you. How exciting to maybe even be there for the holidays??
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