3 months home

Today was our 3 months home anniversary since coming home!  It was nice to realize that Maria has now been home for 1/4 the year.  So, what has happened in 3 months....

• First 4th of July
• First, second, third, fourth time making cookies (grandma makes LOTS of cookies)
• First day of school
• First and second trips to Chicago (soon to be third trip)
• First football game
• First zoo visit (followed by the first gray hairs my daughter gave me)
• First SBAI picnic
• First adaptive sports day
• Learning that Maria will have surgery in the near future
• Too many trips to the different doctors (resulting in much whining about missing school)
• New crutches (yes, they are pink)
• Improvement in Maria's physical mobility
• Bad response to a great dentist (we have our next dental appt on Nov 2...we will see how that goes)
• Growing 3/4 of an inch
• Losing 5 pounds (ok, I know this is not usually a good thing for adopted kids, but for Maria it is for her mobility)
• Learning how much of a little miracle Maria is
• Growing understanding of English while maintaining her Bulgarian
• Realizing time and time again how much she was meant to be my daughter
• New braces

I'm sure there are more things....I just can't remember them all.  So, here are some pictures of her NEW BRACES!

Yup pink camo....was there any doubt they would be pink?

Getting the KAFO fitted

Her shoes fit better with these braces!!!!

Not so sure about this....the KAFO doesn't have a lock on the hinge like her old one did....she just needs to practice and gain confidence on them.

She is really liking the AFO

Really had to check it out

From this weekend....notice a theme?  yup, the girl has a thing for a certain black cat named Pippin....she loves her "black Pippin" t-shirt, sweatshirt and mask.

This just makes me laugh!  She is so my daughter!