Ukraine Adoption

Rainy days and fun days

It's been a rainy week and we have been mostly staying inside and reorganizing the bedrooms upstairs to make sure everyone has what they need. Tara has been a big help, throwing things in the garbage for me and dragging empty boxes down the hall; some are bigger than she is.

We have not seen any signs of her missing the orphanage or anything from her former life. When she awakens in her new room, she sits on her bed and plays with toys until I go and get her up. She likes to pick out her own clothes to wear and insists on putting them on by herself, sometimes backwards but who am I to correct such an effort? She loved the bathing suit her Aunt Michele bought her so much that we tried it on over her pajamas one night, and she insisted on sleeping in it. The next morning, forgetting how she went to bed, I was like, what the heck...?

Our neighbor Ryan speaks Russian and asked Tara what a doggy says. Tara promptly replied, "arf arf." She understands a lot of what we say to her in English, too. After a bath, which she HATES, she repeats after me: "clean."

She loves Austin and follows him around at every chance she gets. But that was no surprise to us, was it?