Saturday, October 24, 2009

Personalities

We have had all this time with no other obligations to get to know our daughters and their likes and dislikes. One adoptive mother told me it takes about a year for the true personality to come out, but in the meantime I will do my best to learn as much as possible about these two girls.
Tatiana:
She has been sleeping much better now, we do not make her take a nap during the day, which helps her at night. She loves playing with playdoh, she will make "food" for us for hours, she even made some for my mom and brother on Skype the other evening. She really like to mimic the waiters here at the hotel when she serves us our "food". She loves watching TV, English or Spanish, she doesn't care. She will play with the first toy we gave her, an alphabet leap pad everyday. Sometimes she will listen to the abc song for a half an hour. She likes being at home, usually when we go away she will ask when we will go back to the "casa". She loves attention especially from her dad "papa".
Kathrine:
She is almost always happy. When we are at the park she bounces from the swing to the slide. She will do anything for a laugh, when Ken does push ups she will get down on the floor and stick her little butt in the air giggling the whole time. She wants to nap in the afternoon. She loves to dance, anytime we hear an upbeat song, she is dancing. She writes left handed. She also really likes to play with playdoh, she usually makes whatever her sister makes. She will ramble on in Spanish for a long time with us, but she usually doesn't talk much to the staff at the hotel, even though they would be able to understand her.

They are the prefect match for us, both a little stubborn like uh both of us, Tatiana has bonded very well with Ken and Kathrine has bonded very well with myself. We love them very much and feel so blessed that we get to be their parents.

5 comments:

  1. Ken and Sherri: The family is happy and excite for you .Almost three years was a long time to wait ,again, God's timing is right on time.You really are blessed.The video was a little breath taking.Love and Prayers, Grandma Miller

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  2. how fun. your girls sound amazing. i'm really looking foward to meeting them. : ) keep posting. every time i go to my computer i check to see if you guys have updated. : )

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  3. They sound like so much fun... I will ramble with them :-) It will be amazing to see their personalies develope more and more. Your blog is absolutely interesting. We just love it. (any clue on how long yet???) Love and Prayers Kara

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  4. We are really enjoying reading your posts- very awesome what you guys are doing! The girls are darling. Best wishes and God Bless you all, Ivan & Nicole

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  5. Love this post...so amazing to see how they really were hand-picked by God for you. I'm guessing that you'll just keep having that proven to you over and over. So glad to see too that they are "official" now. Families are forever! And what an interesting heritage those two are going to have...sort of a latino/dutch combination :) .

    Also, I talked to a friend of mine who adopted from China...a 3 and 6 year old. She said that they were speaking English in no time flat! Children are so adaptable...you'll be all laughing and talking around the dinner table before you know it :) .

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