We go to professionals to get their help, but it’s important to not just do as they say. For example, a speech therapist is there to help with speech, and they will tell you what to do that will help your child be able to talk and chew and swallow. But you have to think [...]

I had never heard of Eebee until recently. A friend has a little one and she was singing this catchy little tune to her, and her son just lit right up. I asked about it, and we watched the video. I have to say it’s kind of annoying, but TwinkleToes was mesmerized. And playful. She’s [...]

GG: It’s not FAIR!!!! RQ: Who told you life was going to be fair? Wow, that’s a hard one. Kids want everything to be fair, they seem to be born with this sense of fairness, and when they learn that life doesn’t always seem to be fair, it’s sometimes hard for them to take. Right [...]

I didn’t allow GlitterGirl anywhere near steps for probably a lot longer than was necessary. In my defense, she did a lot of stumbling over nothing because of her sensory stuff, and I was just terrified of her being even close to steps much less actually on the steps. Plus, her depth perception was messed [...]

The attachment books and sites all say that no one but the parents should hold the baby, and they all give a variety of times for this. With GlitterGirl no one held her but us for a long time. Maybe six months? I don’t remember exactly, but it was a long time. My parents probably [...]

When GlitterGirl was little we used one of those Level One Swimschool boats. They were handy, but you had to keep your hands on them at all times or they would flip over. Swimways has now made something much safer. There are two blow up rings, one around the baby and one on the outside, [...]

Glittergirl cried more times than I can count because she wanted to go get her little sister. When we got started I added four months onto the wait and two months longer than I thought it would take to complete our dossier and found a milestone close to that and said we’d be home by [...]

I can’t stress enough how much the use of sign language helped/is helping both of my girls. GlitterGirl took a while to get caught up on certain motor skills, and this delayed her speech. She only had about 10 signs that she used when she started talking at around a year and a half old. [...]

GlitterGirl and TwinkleToes adore each other. I still get all misty eyed watching them play together. I even occasionally get a bit misty eyed when I have to put on the referee hat and intercede in some sort of disagreement. Twinkletoes does not back down to anyone, if she wants to do something she will [...]

I started a blog on Blogger long ago to talk about more personal things. I’ve pulled many of those posts over here and closed that blog. The blogger blog was called “At Last…A Family”, but I really wanted my personal blog to just be about my girls. Not about my adopted girls. Yes, they were [...]