How is Miah Adapting?

I wouldn't be telling you the truth, if I told you that it has been an easy transition. Every day Miah is learning what we expect of her, and tries to please us. If she spoke English fluently, I think we would refer to her as a bit sassy, with her "Bu yao" (I don't want it), to everything, including us sometimes. She has shook her head "no" when I have asked her to get off of something. Although, it could have something to do with her being two years old.


Miah repeats what we say, which is quite cute. She's quite perceptive too. When she first came home, Miah pointed to a photograph in her photo album (we sent to her while she lived in China) - then she pointed to the picture that hangs on the wall of our living room, to show me that the picture on the wall is the same one pictured in the photo.


She likes to go through the photographs of her friends at TCH, and tells me who they are. She looks at them very seriously.


Angelina has been finding having a new little sister quite a challenge. Her behaviour has changed. She has screaming fits now. She must sit on top of me especially while I am busy or on the phone, and races to me if Miah is heading towards my sizeable lap. Angelina wants to drink out of a sippy cup now, and one day I found Angelina waiting for Miah to put a diaper on her.


We do see ourselves as blessed and we appreciate that certainly their behaviour could be a whole lot worse. We are also confident that these current blips are all a part of "transition" and that given time everyone will grow out of it (Mom and Dad included). However, I think it would be "sanitizing" our journey too much to pretend that these things are not happening.

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