I've noticed that I haven't done a very good job of keeping up with Kerry's smaller milestones and "firsts" lately. I guess things have just been so busy with the holidays. I'm going to treat this whole blog thing as sort of a scrap book, as a lot of other bloggers do, so we, and Kerry, can look back on these things later. Let's start with what was quite possibly Kerry's first experience with snow. Last winter she was in southern China where snow is pretty rare, not to mention she was just an infant. So when we got a few flurries after church the sunday before last, I couldn't resist letting her spend a few minutes watching the snowflakes fall. There was absolutely no accumulation, but she seemed to notice the snow flakes..even though she kept saying "rain" and making her little rain sign with her hands.

Checking out the Christmas lights

And I have to talk about this robe. This used to be my robe. It was..is..a very soft, very comfy robe. Then one day I picked Kerry up while wearing it. It then became her robe. She sleeps with it, and has to cuddle with it several times a day, and calls it "obe". I'm thinking of cutting it down into a small blanket, but she seems to like it just as it is.



We had our 6 month post placement homestudy this past week. It went very well. We've had the same social worker for each homestudy since we started the adoption process, and we really like her. Kerry also had her 6 month follow up with her cardiologist on Tuesday. He said the VSD is still there, but it's very tiny and restrictive and doesn't seem to be affecting her heart at all, thank God. At lunch after the appointment, Kerry strung 2 words together for the first time. She was stuffing rice into her little fist and when I tried to take it from her and clean her hands before we left she said "no, mine!" Lord, help us =). Technically, she's been saying "there it is" for a while now, but the way she says it sounds like one word, and I think she considers it one word. And she's been saying that ALOT this week,too, just pointing to random objects, people, or pets, calling the object, person, pet by name then saying "deh-id-isss"! It's so cute.