November 2014

It's been a busy November!  

We had to say goodbye to our fabulous speech therapist, Miss Tiffany!

Children's Mercy has such a long wait list for therapy that they only allow each child 6 months of treatment.  Harper's 6 months just ended.  Harper loved Miss Tiffany so much! In the 6 months we spent with her, Harper went from speaking only single words like Momma and Dadda to using 4 word sentences really consistently.  She still drops the end consonants of words, which makes her difficult to understand.  We've found a new therapist and start with her next week.  

If she is even half as good as Tiffany, we will be very pleased!

 

We've had lots of fun in November.

We get outside as often as possible. We went to the park

 and played in the leaves.

Ashley & I taught Harper how to play Guess Who.

We colored

and played chase through the house.

We decorated the Christmas tree and are ready for a busy December!

Little Monkey Bizness and The Big Biscuit

This morning Harper and I met several other families who have 

adopted from China at Little Monkey Bizness in Shawnee for a playdate!

There were more kids, but some of them escaped from our picture.

Harper had a great time playing, although she wasn't really interested in posing for a group picture.

She climbed the big slide all by herself

and played air hockey with her new friend, Allie.

 

What a fun Saturday morning!

Harper worked up a big appetite, so we grabbed some chocolate chip pancakes for

lunch at The Big Biscuit.  Harper ate 3 pancakes, scrambled eggs, and milk!

Halloween 2014

Harper was really excited for Halloween this year.

She helped Daddy carve the pumpkin

and it turned out great!

Getting ready for trick-or-treaters

There were lots of giggles.

 Ashley pretended to be a trick-or-treater so I could show Harper what to do.

When the doorbell would ring, Harper would shriek with delight and run to the door.

She saw what all the other kids did, so that's what she did too.

She grabbed some candy out of the bucket and ran!

Arrrrrrrrgh!  Being a pirate is lots of fun!