February 2007

Well, we have been home for a month now and Maiah Nandin is doing very well and so are the rest of us!! Mommy is a little tired but so very amazed. Maiah Nandin just loves all of us now and fits right in with our busy Petrin social life:) Her English is amazing as she is putting 3 and 4 word phrases together. As for her understanding, she does not miss a thing. Maiah Nandin is very smart, singing songs and duplicating things after teaching them to her once or twice. She loves to sing Jesus Loves Me and plays tea party and cooks for us all the time. She is very active, keeps us all hopping from morning until night. She is very flexible and loves to jump, flip and do somersaults. I think we have a gymnast on our hands!! She also loves looking at pictures of her friends from the Childrens Place, we go through them everyday and she names them all. We feel so blessed to be in contact with a couple a families from France, these are the families of her 2 best friends. One of them, Ariuna, has already gone home to her family. She actually left the week after Maiah. Then there is Uurya, who will hopefully go home to her family soon. We are praying they will travel to pick her up next month. Nathan loves his little sister and has begun to realize that teenage girls like boys with cute little sisters, now he has 2!! As for Kaytlin, she has found balance since Maiah decided to attach to Mommy's hip. They have a very sweet relationship Maiah has started to call Derek Daddy instead of Owa. I think he was a little sad at first but now its very sweet. As for Mommy, she is attached to my hip, even in the shower!! We feel so blessed to have had the opportunity to be part of Gods plan for this little girls life. She has added so much joy to our family in just a month. Nate said to me just yesterday, "Mom, can you even believe that she is here in her bed and in our house?" I told him that I still stand amazed at how awesome our God is. Until March.................