Big moves and attachment growing!

Ingrid can go all the way from laying down to standing up now!  She is so proud and we clap and squeal every time she does it.  We cannot believe in just a month how much she has learned to do.  She is squatting all the time and building those little muscles so we will put away the "Brazilian Butt-Lift" DVD we had ordered.  (Just kidding).  She is busy, busy, wonderfully busy!

 Stacking, unstacking, chucking

She just stood up from sitting- so proud!!!

Ingrid found cookies and a sucker in her bag and enjoyed a "sweet" breakfast!

She is thinking she can get away with just about anything!

It is SO hard to say "no" to these eyes asking for another cookie!!!

 Ice cream is a new favorite!

 

Oskar wrestles with her on the floor at the Eden Prairie Mall

She loves being outside!!

Busy at sidewalk chalk

Eating the chalk too


There are times when Ingrid is scared and gives us the same blank look she gave us in China.  Perhaps it is a survival or coping response to all that is going on.  We tried to take a family picture at a photography studio.  She froze when the photographer tried to hold her.  From that point on her eyes were glossed over and distant.  She never cried and we didn't realize the impact some of these new experiences have on her until we saw the photo proofs and so those sweet, dear, sad, scared eyes.  We realize although she is making progress in leaps and bounds, she is still so fragile.  So we will hold her and stay with her and sleep with her for as long as it takes.  We are her family forever and we are blessed to be able to call her our child! 

We love you, little Ingrid!
xoxoxxo