Continued Progress

Chloe is doing great.  She can now say Mama, moo, meow, night night, uh oh, and something that sounds like hi.  When she says meow, she also tries to do the sign language with it that is sort of like miming whiskers.  It is so adorable.  I am going to try and video it and post it because I think it is so cute. 

Chloe has had a hard time sitting and listening to books.  Some of my favorite times with Caleb were nighttime story time.  We would sit and rock and read books and we both loved it.  I have tried to do that with Chloe and it has been hard up until this last week or so.  At first she would grab the books and try and turn the pages and close the books.  Over time, we have gotten her to sit and listen, but she has usually been holding a book of her own and plays with it while we read another book.  Anyways, last weekend she sat still and paid attention to 4 books!  I was so amazed.  Since then she has done great sitting and listening.  I hope she loves to read as much as Caleb does.

Another area I have really seen Chloe progress on is interacting with other people.  For the longest time Chloe would really only go to us.  Now she seems to be getting more and more comfortable and she will even let people she barely knows hold her.  She is also becoming more comfortable at the church nursery.  The first few times we left her she had a hard time.  At our church, if a child is having a hard time, they usually put them in a stroller and stroll them in the hallways.  I guess Chloe was put in the stroller and strolled the first few times.  Anyways, she seemed to feel comfortable and secure in the stroller.  Over the next few weeks she progressed to being in the room sitting in the stroller, to her teachers holding her to playing and having a good time.  Wednesday night when I went to pick her up she was so excited and having a great time because her teacher was blowing bubbles which she loves. 

She is also enjoying music and is learning motions to some songs.  She can now perform the head, shoulder, knees and toes song and the wheels on the bus.  At night after reading I usually sing her some songs and I swear she is trying to sing along with me when I sing the alphabet song.  Won't that be amazing the first day she can sing her A,B,C's.  I can't wait!

Her gross motor skills also continue to develop.  She can run some now.  She can also climb up this slide we have and slide down.  She loves to climb up and down stairs.  To bad for her we have a one story house.   She is also doing a lot of walking.  Our nanny and her walked around our block the other day 3 times. 

Last weekend Chloe and I had a great time with a girl's weekend.  Kevin and Caleb were on a father/son YMCA camping trip.  On Saturday morning Chloe and I went to the zoo.  She seemed to enjoy herself so much at the zoo in China, I thought it would be fun to do.  The weather was great and she loved it!  Most of the animals were out and active which made it even that much more fun.  That evening we went to dinner with a friend and then went shopping.  It was really fun.  I am looking forward to many more girls weekends.

I am going to try and post more photos.  She has healed well from the surgery and from a distance it is hard to even see the scar.  Everyone that sees her is amazed at the result.  It is hard to believe her surgery was just a little over one month ago.  She has done great!