I Should Have Expected This

I kept thinking to myself, I'll have to check how long things have been going really well. It seems like such a long time since there has been any resistance to doing our daily NR. I shouldn't have had that thought because sure enough, today was different. This morning, I mentioned something about the story she told me about when she lived in China. It was in response to something she said earlier, so I didn't bring it up on my own. Then later she saw the first baby picture we have of her. She said, "I'm adopted." It's because that is the picture I have in her adoption books. Then when we were doing her exercises, she didn't want to do them. I told her that it would help her do the things she wanted to and help her brain and body work better together. I also mentioned that when she tried to talk and said the same word over and over again, her exercises would help with that. I think this was the first time she was embarassed. She said later that she wanted to talk like that. So don't I feel like the worst mom in the world after that. We went through many starts and stops, and she kept on asking for hug breaks which was great. I have only heard, "I love you mommy and I DO need you." She even resolved her issues with her sister being away for 10 days and said she loved her and needed her too. I really hate that she is tormented like that, but so thrilled that she is showing that she feels many different emotions. I found her big sisters old mood stamps. We play with stamps after each lap of creeping and crawling. I start off a sentence saying I feel (fill in the emotion) when(fill in the situation) asnd then I ask her to do the same. This is yielding some results. We have decided on a school and I hope it works out. The good thing is that is starts almost a week later than my 8th grader. So at least we will have a little time in between to get used to things. I am looking into working part time near where she goes to school to pay for some of the gas. We will be driving 30 minutes each way and in the begining, she will only go 3 hours. I will need to find something to do while I'm waiting. We might start vision therapy and that is 45 minutes away. We will be going 1X/week for her sister, so we will be in the car a lot.