We're loving our new house, our new neighborhood and our new neighbors. Emilia is especially loving the 4 year old boy next door and the opportunity to play all the time! That is one thing she absolutely LOVES - being around other kids. It's still a struggle because she's still pretty social awkward, but she just LOVES them so!
We started school this Fall -- Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 12:30-3:00. She is in a Special Ed Preschool classroom, and receives Speech Therapy and Occupational Therapy. The education system here is different from the Midwest, so that took some getting use to from this mamÃ! On our first day of school Emilia was so excited to go by the "kids", and when she realized there were only 3 other kids in her classroom she was very disappointed. She kept asking me over and over where the other kids were!
Ryan has been really busy with work and we've just been taking our time to really get settled. We're finally pretty much set in our house, except the garage, which needs to happen soon since it's already started snowing here!
I've met some amazing Adoptive mamas since I've been here, and Emilia and I go to a mom's support/play group on Thursday mornings. We've had a hard time really getting to know people, so these ladies have been a huge blessing for us. What better group of people to get acquainted with??
We're just taking it one day at a time and working through our "stuff" as it comes. We have some really good days, and some not so good days. Recently, E is so proud to tell everyone we come into contact with that she is from Ecuador. I've been starting to talk a bit more about Ecuador because I want her story to be a part of our daily discussion. She doesn't really get what happened, and just looks and me kind of funny when I say: Remember when mamà and daddy came to Ecuador?
She doesn't remember. Or doesn't want to remember. Or has somehow blocked her memory. For now, we will just continue to tell her the story.
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