Week Three

We are on week three now with Frankie home and thankfully we are having more good days than bad. Can't say that was true for our second week!

When someone asks if your new child is "adjusting" just what do they mean? I've wondered this myself. I mean, yes, Frankie has adjusted well to his new bed, the new food (which he eats a LOT of!!), the dogs, the routine, etc, but to our family particularly? What makes our family our family?

Well, I think I figured it out. Frankie is understanding our sense of humor (odd as it is) and his little sense of humor is starting to show!! This has been a huge break through for me!! Because to be honest, I was having a hard time attaching with a, well, humorless blob.

Monday it seems that the funny Frankie decided to emerge and he is not only enjoying and laughing at me and Ella when we are being funny, but he's contributing his goofy humor too! And he's quite the funny little guy too, even though we can't understand half he says :). He's a bit of a dork, just like us! And that makes me happy because you could not fit into this family if you did not have a sense of humor and were not a dork.

The little dude is shy too, so it's even more encouraging that he's feeling comfortable enough with us to start to joke around. They really don't have much time for this when they're in the babies home. They're just trying to get by. So to see this new, funny side of Frankie is truly awesome!

A rather fine looking couple of kids

Cowboy Frank in his jeans, cowboy belt and belt buckle

The Princess and her faithful servant

The faithful servant, all gussied up for church

Happy kids in pj's

Riding double

Franks learning and mastery of the English language is astounding. That little dude is actively learning new words every day! He is understanding commands but is now wanting to know what certain things are called and speaking them. He wanted to know what his toes and feet were called tonight and also pointed at the dolls butt and wanted to know what that was called, too. His little voice enthusiastically enunciating "butt!" is pretty funny :)

He's using verbs too, like 'sleeping', 'run/ning' 'jump/ing' etc, and just beginning to say two word sentences. He'll say "Kayo sleeping," "Bridger barking", "Kitty sleeping", "Kayo, OUT!" "See ya later" and things like that. I always know what the animals are doing :)

Ella continues to, well, just be Ella! We wondered if there would be some jealously and how she would adjust from being only child Princess to one of two. In her mind, rather than Frankie being any kind of competition, he is simply 'hers'. She still refers to thier room and all the toys as "hers" but Frankie is "hers" as well, so she just keeps her toys and her brother all together in her room. She also refers to my Mom as "My Granny", not as simply "Granny." Granny is hers! Little L is quite the character and comes up with the darndest things!