Ukraine Adoption

Let me count the ways

Top Ten Reasons We Like Tara So Much:

10. She can count to 10 on her fingers and even her toes. We have discovered that she perfected this feat just yesterday. My favorite number: "Seh - wen." Each number sounds like a song.

9. She lets us sleep til 9 a.m. on the weekends, bless her little heart. She reads books and plays with toys in her room, or wakes up Austin. But she lets us sleep!

8. She happily takes a bath whenever I say it's time, even if it's only 8 p.m.

7. When I wake her up a little after 7 a.m., she stretches like a kitten, this way and that, oh the drama in it. But she slides out of bed and slinks into my arms for a warm morning hug.

6. She met her 6-year-old cousin Marcella for the first time and they played sweetly like they were best friends forever.

5. She grabs her daddy's hand, her 5 fingers so tiny, and brings him to me when I need his help with something.

4. Some of her new friends in pre-school are 4 years old, and she is really trying hard to keep up with them. She is learning songs and shapes, colors, numbers and letters.

3. The sweet way she tells you how old she is, carefully touching her thumb to her pinky finger for the perfect display of three fingers.

2. The way she adores her big brother Austin, proving to us that we're so lucky to have 2 great kids.

1. Have you seen her smile lately?