Home 1 Month

I promise I am going to back date posts from the rest of our journey to China but I thought I'd make a quick post about our first month home.  Rebecca is adjusting fabulously!  She is sleeping 10-12 hrs each night and taking a 2 hr nap on the days we're home for that. :-)  She eats just about anything we offer her and has grown .5 inch and .5 pound in the last 3 weeks!!  She understands just about anything we say to her and is starting to say more on her own and repeats us all the time.  Here are some of her firsts and favorites from her first month home.

Favorite Foods:
Cold cereal and milk, especially Frosted Flakes
Chocolate Chip Granola bars
Pepperoni Pizza
Macaroni and Cheese
Corn on the Cob
Watermelon
Ice Cream
Sweet Tea

Favorite Activities:
Playing outside
Swimming
Taking a bath or shower
Playing with her baby dolls
Drawing
Swinging
Being held and/or carried
Looking at pictures of herself and other Asian babies
Riding in the Power Wheels truck with the boys
Eating

Words She Can Say:
Uh Oh
No
More
JieJie (sister)
GuGu (brother)
Baby
Peek-a-Boo
Oreo (one of the cats)
Merlin (our other cat)
Bye-bye
Night-night
Please
Thank you
Yay!!

Some of her FIRSTS this month:
Swimming in the pool
Going to movie theater (Saw Inside Out)
Watched Elizabeth's dance recital (all 3 hours)
Started going to church (LOVES the music)
Learned how to eat Corn on the Cob
Ate ice cream cone (with a spoon)
Roadtrip to the beach
Jumped waves and LOVED it
Watched fireworks
Goes to sleep at naptime by herself

She has transformed from a sad, scared little girl that we first met on May 18, 2015 to a smiley, laughing, happy little bundle of joy with BIG personality in 4 short weeks!  It seems like eons ago that we were in China and Aaron and I frequently talk about how long ago that seems.  We are SO HAPPY to have her in our family and make the Kamenick family complete.  We can't wait to see how much she grows and changes over the next 11 months!