Friday, June 8, 2012

6 month update - CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?

Well, it has been 6 whole months today.  Olesya is doing well.  She has her moments, but all 3 year olds do.  Steve wondered out loud tonight how many words she knew and I said at least 300-400.  She repeats everything you say, even the bad ones that you don't want her to. 

She is doing well with day care, the only problem is nap time (which is no surprise - because we still have issues at home with nap and bedtime).  I'm sure it will all work out. 

We are going for our first overnight camping trip soon... that should be interesting.... she's very excited about it."Ride 4-wheeler" and "play in mud" she says!  LOL  She's such a tomboy!  It will be her first night away from home since we got her to the USA. 
Our friends from Long Island are still waiting for a court date for their "waiting twins".... please say a quick prayer for them.  They are working with a new judge in the same region we got Olesya, and the judge is being, shall we say, more than thorough.

We've been doing 'time outs' with her and she has the hang of them... the other day, she was throwing food at the table so I pulled her away from the table and told her 3 minutes. - she says to me "time out - 3 minutes" --- she was right of course.... so after 3 minutes I say " I put in you time out because you were throwing food" and she says to me "no throw food, promise, sorry, hugs"  and just smiles at me... the little one has already figured out TIME OUT!  I'm not sure how effective it is, if she knows what I'm going to say and says it before I do.  We had 2 time outs tonight for throwing food at the table... it's the only thing I know to do at this point.  I'm trying to teach her a little bit of table manners.... she doesn't do well when we take her to restaurants.  I don't know if she is just overwhelmed by all the people or she is just showing off. 

Here is a picture from May 27th.




Isn't she just adorable!

We are very happy to report that she is doing very well!

We couldn't be happier with her progress.

THE LEWIS'S!