One book that I forgot to grab for the picture that is excellent is Orphan Justice, an amazing book!
These are some of the books that I like with regards to sensory issues. We are so grateful to be learning so much recently about the body working as a whole and doing things to improve abilities through exercise and movement. Truly amazing! And lots of nuggets in these books.
Learning much about patience lately and how hard it can be to wait. We will be so thankful to be matched and have our facilitator meet our girls. We sent out a care package for them this week. Another family will deliver to our facilitator (thank you E family), and she will give our photo books, cards and stuffed animals to S and V. I would love to show all the pictures of the books but can't yet-- we had the girls' pictures on them and phrases translated into their language. Hoping Google translate got everything right! Bill pulled the books together--he did a great job! Here are some pages that didn't have S and V's names or language.
We recently visited a bakery/deli that sells food from the girls' country and museum for the girls' country. We all enjoyed the food and picked up some things to freeze so S and V will have some familiar food when they get here. We also found out that we have been mispronouncing the girls names--oops! Thankfully we'll have a couple of months to get things right. It is nice to have some things relatively close by that will help S and V feel connected to their birth country. We are also hoping to pick up music and other items in country that will be reminders of their years in their birth country. We were able to find two great books for them, one a Richard Scarry book that is in English and their native language, and the other a book all about their country written for kids with pictures and snippets about life there---history, what people eat, do, etc. One thing I am realizing is that we need to start working on some basic words and phrases.
We have been advised by our adoption agency to not share on our blog pictures of S and V or the country they are in until we have gone to court. We don't want to do anything to compromise our adoption but will be thrilled to "show" people them after court. They are precious girls, S having longer dark hair and very blue eyes, and V having lighter colored, short hair with the same beautiful blue eyes. We think that S may have a dimple on the left cheek--just like Ellie which thrills Ellie.
One family is in country right now and met their daughter yesterday--so amazing to see their pictures! Very touching! Another family that works with our agency leaves on Monday to meet their son. We are learning much from both of them. Praying for safe travel and no snags along the way for both families.
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