More about Lyla!

As we wait for some updated info on Lyla, as promised, here are a few more sentences from her background reports. This one was dated March 2011.

"She sleeps relatively soundly."

- You never know how that will change when she comes home, but at least we're starting in the right place!

"...a little girl with a cheerful personality who loves to talk and smile."

- Aw!

"She likes to express herself, every day, like a chirping bird, talking endlessly."

- And this would be my all time, favorite description of our girl! Ahahahahaha!

Today as I sat on the computer Xander came over to see what I was doing. I was reading the We Are Grafted In blog post for the day, and it had a picture of a street in China. He asked what that was and I said it was a picture of China. We do a lot of talking about China, we like to talk about Xander being born in China, and Lyla was born in China but she is still there until we can go get her. We talk about Mommy and Daddy will go to China and Macey and Xander will stay home with Nana and wait for us to come back. I learned, through our adoption with Xander, that these little ones understand much more than I originally thought, so we are forthcoming with everything.

Anyway, it's interesting what thoughts these two add when we mention China. Xander has called Lyla on his pretend phone to talk to her, he has mentioned that he knew Lyla when he was in China (he did not, but I love that he sees a connection), so you never know. Today's comments from Xander brought tears to my eyes. After he saw the picture of China on the blog he said, "I want to see Lyla pictures." So, I found them on the computer and just started a slide show so they would rotate through all the pictures we have. Then he began to say, "China is far away from our house. We need to go there. We have to walk there." I said, "Oh, you think we should walk there?" "Yes, we need some shoes. And Lyla needs some shoes." You could see his little wheels turning, "And Lyla can walk."

I know you are thinking, oh Allison, you are over emotional. But here is what this little conversation meant to me, it was the simple, innocent thinking of a child, that all we need to do was walk to Lyla, and she needed some shoes too because she needed to walk to us. It was as if he was trying to figure out how we could get to her, or how she could get to us. I love their simple solutions to things, and believe me, if I could just put on shoes and walk to Lyla I would do it in a heartbeat...with some cute 2 year olds following close behind!