7 months with Nyah!

At the beginning of March, we had our only major snowfall of winter. Nyah screamed and cried when I walked towards her with the snowpants (how in the world does she even know they are not typical clothes??), cried when I tried to put gloves on her, and pitched another fit when the boots went on. I debated whether this was even worth it.

She was grumpy in the yard before we went to the hill and she was grumpy on the top of the hill and let us know it.

But one slide down was all it took. Look at that smile. She spent the rest of the time grunting and looking down the hill, wanting to go again. She is the wild one!

The Wanzai orphanage Yahoo group has mentioned on several occasions while I was preparing to leave for China that Wanzai girls have a thing for shoes. I laughed. I wear the same two pairs of shoes all cold months and rotate between the same two pairs of sandals all summer. I have one pair of running shoes. Nyah simply would not have an obsession for shoes because her environment just wasn't conducive to it. WRONG! The girl is never wearing shoes... her own that is. She spends all day going to our laundry room shoe baskets and picking a pair for the hour. Typically they are Brynn's because she those are big enough for her to get on but not so big that she still can't run around the house. SO funny! Since she is stubborn and difficult and runs from me now with the camera I have no pictures of this... yet.

The girl refuses to wear things in her hair if I ask her to but at least once a day she comes to me with an elastic hair band, just one, and insists I put it in. She then giggles when she looks in the mirror.

And she loves to dance. I have no pictures of this, but she even dances to the beat of the copier at the elementary school while we wait for Brynn's speech lesson to be over.

She also loves to be like the big kids... swinging on the big equipment...

and writing...

and this one... who sits like this? Her big brother Caleb while doing his homework, so Nyah, of course, did the same thing.

Not so funny in the moment but funny later is the fact that she now loves to strip off all her clothes before her nap and bedtime. That was okay until the diaper came off too but luckily, that only happened a few of the times.

Not so funny at all are the two-year old tantrums. She is tantruming frequently now... several times a day! I'm thinking two more years of this might put me over the edge. She knows exactly when to do it to for the most impact. We may not leave the house for a while (as if that is possible)!

And last but not least, here she is at Price's birthday party. What part of the cake does she like best??

But she does get clean... CHEESE!