GlitterGirl and I were having a talk about China the other day. And I mentioned that it would be another two years before we get to go back again.
And her eyes get huge and she very forcefully says “we’re not getting another little sister!”
She loves her little sister, but the adjustment has been difficult.

The computer bonding time is helping. There are still moments of jealousy, but the time spent on the computer has brought GlitterGirl’s nurturing side back out.
There is now a lot of big sister taking care of little sister activity going on again.
I know there will be ups and downs with this, I’m just happy to [...]

GlitterGirl seems to have hit some sort of wall with the whole sharing her parents thing.
She picks at her sister. She makes her cry (taunts her, takes things from her, but no hitting thank goodness). She makes up these imaginary (silly) rules about what her sister is allowed to touch and is not, and tries [...]

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 [...]

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 insist [...]