Today marks the 1 month anniversary of Lanhua's arrival in the United States. Looking back, it's difficult to imagine that our early days together in Guangzhou were spent less than 6 weeks ago. Life has changed so dramatically for all of us!
I'm hoping that the title of today's Blog Post summarizes the spirit of the past month. With each day, we learn something new about each other, our family, the English language and ourselves. It's an incredibly challenging, happy, frustrating and amazing process. We're so fortunate to have this wonderful (most of the time) child in our lives. Once again stating the obvious: Everything has changed in ways that we never could have imagined.
Our communication challenge continues (as expected), however we've experiencing significant daily improvement. Lanhua communicates more effectively with us and we're improving in our ability to communicate with her. She isn't speaking English yet, but clearly understands a good amount of basic vocabulary. Next week, an ESL tutor named Al will begin in-home bi-weekly tutoring sessions with Lanhua. I see a long-lasting friendship in our future with Al. Steve and I felt a positive vibe as soon as we met him. Hopefully, Lanhua will feel the same.
Lanhua still seems to enjoy going to school each day and has made friends with some of the kids in her class. She's developed a huge crush on her Grandpa (aka "YeYe") and has grown very close to our youngest dog, Milton (in photo). In the upcoming weeks/months, we hope that more of our family and friends are able to meet Lanhua and join us with her continued introduction to this new life. Cheers!
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