A Typical Day

Hannah is back in school this week. This is how our days have typically been going-so far. Our day gets up early. Kevin leaves for work at 6am. Then Hannah gets ready for school. I (Rusti) drive Hannah and Emily to Busia's to catch the bus in the morning around 7:30am. Emily waits for the bus eating her banana or breakfast bar of fruit and oatmeal. When it is time for the bus-Emily and Hannah give a good-bye kiss before Hannah. Busia and I have a cup of coffee while Emily decides to fill her diaper with stinky "poop". Yes, this happens every morning like clockwork. This is usually just the first of 3 or 4 each day. I change Emily into her clothes for the day and she "plays" with Queenie and Sheeba (Busia/Dzia Dzia's dogs) When she saw a dog for the frst time in the US she was petrified of them and this morning she managed to feed one of them her half eaten cookie. We are getting there. We are thinking of getting Hannah a puppy this summer so we are working on getting Emily used to being near dogs. Then Emily and I go home where she proceeds to play and look for Hannah as if she is playing hide and seek ALL day!!! She misses her big sissy soooo much!!! She has started to kiss everything in the house now-even lids off water bottles!!! She is picking up some English words now and at times during play or changing her diaper she still speaks in her "jibberish" Chinese. We play until lunch time and then she takes her nap. This week she has been taking a 3 hour nap and I have to wake her up to go back to Busia's to meet Hannah coming off the bus. When Hannah comes off the bus-Emily bursts into a laugh and smile really big. Hannah runs up to her and they give each other a big sloppy kiss. Then we head home to finish our evening with more play-time and dinner and we usually get to bed around 8:30pm. This is when I have been finding the time to take my shower and get some things done around the house. WHEW-what a beautiful day with 2 beautiful girls!!! I hate the idea of having to go back to work soon.