So what are we up to? Chaltu had another explosion of English last week, when our Amharic speaking friend watched her last week, Chaltu always replied in English! Last night she read the book 5 little monkeys to me! It is a bit overwhelming how smart she is and how quickly she is catching on, I have to keep up and keep pushing her! She got another 100 on her spelling test and 3 of the 5 bonus words correct- including- Stations of the cross- try explaining the "tion" sound to a limited speaking English kid! she got it!
We got her a bike last weekend and she LOVES it! we were able to go twice this week and she is really enjoying it- as am I, it allows me to run!!
Dinner is my favorite time of day with Chaltu, it takes about an hour for her to eat...so I now take advantage of this, we practice spelling words, we talk, it is typically a very fun part of our day, this week though we wrote funny sentences about each other! This was great, it allowed her to practice writing, to be silly and creative! We had such a blast and this girl is very funny! I think we are going to find a theater camp to put her in this summer!
Dancing, have I told you all her love of dancing? Seriously this girl is always dancing, we were at a TGI Fridays restaurant a few weeks ago and she and I went to wash her hands, a song came on with a good beat, and we had to stop what we were doing and bust into a dance party in the bathroom! Every night she and I dance together, if I ask her to go get something/ do something she dances her way there! Yes we are thinking of putting her in dance, but I am so conservative on somethings, that I really don't want her shaking her booty and wearing short shorts to dance in...we will see...I am still researching! I have relaxed a bit with the music I let her listen to so we can dance...the messages out there can be so...well you know!
Her eye...some of you know she is blind in one eye, it was due to an accident when she lived in her first home. We went to the Dr. 2 weeks ago, we were very hopeful that maybe there would be some vision there...nope, none, nothing, nada, we have to get a ultrasound to ensure that there is nothing "growing" there (they are 99% sure there is not). So it is what it is...it definitely does NOT stop her from anything!! we go today to get her new glasses finally! We are all excited about this!
Her newest chant (doing it right now) "Chaltu queen, Daddy king, Mommy princess" although last night Daddy taught her the word peasant! so then mommy was a mere peasant!!! She and I have gone over the order of queen and princess a lot!!! It is pretty funny!! She gets it and wants to reign!!
Well it is the first day in a few weeks we all have together and they are both up! I think we are headed out to breakfast, get glasses and then who knows what!! But I know it will be great!
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