Spring update

Cori continues to amaze. To have to endure a 15 minute administration of her daily enema and then to sit for 45 minutes on the potty, she is an incredibly good sport. On occasion it does not agree with her and she spends the entire 45 minutes throwing up. Every once in a while she simply falls asleep in her wooden tv tray. Most nights she requests my I Touch and a cup of water with three ice cubes.
Just this week I was changing her diaper and she said something that was almost frightening............."Mommy, I remember in China." Really, what do you remember in China. She said, " I remember in China my bottom not work."
Most of you know that we have two other daughters from China. Jena was adopted at 26 months with one of the biggest bilateral cleft lip and palates the surgeon at UNC-Chapel Hill had ever seen. Then it was discovered she was deaf. Then it was discovered that she had a brain tumor. Two years later we adopted Lily at 30 months with complete unilateral cleft lip and palate and attachment issues for the next 12 plus months. She still has huge emotional and abandonment issues.
Then we go several years and go back to China for Cori. She was 39 months old with no speech/language/hearing issues. No attachment or self esteem issues. Huge medical isues.
And now we have a child who can remember China and what it was like for her medically there. And we are blown away.
We have friends who adopted a daughter who was almost 5 when adopted, 2 when abandoned. She asks them why it took them so long to get her. We know others who adopted a child who was about to become unadoptable because of her age. She cries when she says that the kids in her school "Ha Ha me because I do not have a Mommy or a Daddy. The kids her do not Ha ah me."

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