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| Carousel at Coney Island |
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| Trick or Treating at Coney Island |
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| Riding the choo choo at the Zoo |
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| Pumpkin patch fun at Shaw Farm. |
Fall is flying by and Jailyn is growing taller almost 34" tall and 25.2 lbs and learning so much. We are finding things all over our house in strange places. She is the sweetest little girl and feel so blessed and love her more every day.
It has been another busy month in the busy lives of the Thornburys. Our new home is in the framing stage and we are making decisions as we progress. We believe it will be ready in the spring. It is exciting and overwhelming all at the same time. We are working through sleep issues still with Jailyn but moving forward in the right direction and getting more rest.
We met with the attachment therapist and she was pleased with Jailyn and felt she is quite bonded and just going through adoption grief of realizing she lost her caregiver 16 months ago and Jailyn is fearful it will happen again. We are making strides in the sleep department and boundaries are consistent now and all are sleeping better. Many weeks of lack of sleep. We have put a gate up to keep her in her room during naptime and bedtime which she dislikes and she says "Gate up, I stuck mommy". The first time the gate went up she threw her stuffed cow and a door hanger outside her room in her fit of anger. I was happy to see she got it out and felt her feelings. She wails/screams with drama and sees we are in the other room and finally gives up and crawls in bed after her night time ritual of reading books, praying, cuddling, listening to music and having her light show with lots of stuff animals in bed with her. She is the most beautiful sweet little girl and I marvel at her and my eyes well up with tears of thanksgiving. I wondered why for the longest time why we could not have our own biological children and now I know Jailyn was to be our daughter and God had a different and bigger plan than we ever imagined. Sleep challenges are accepted as the norm now and she is now sleeping most of the night through and can not come in our room to sleep with us.
Great news Katie and Billy are having a little girl and we are thrilled all Jailyn's hand me downs have a place in our family. Mommy sure likes to shop for Jailyn and has so many darling Gymboree outfits that now our little grand daughter can wear too as she grows into 12 month clothes... So Aunt Jailyn will have a niece. How fun they will grow up together. Katie and Billy are excited and it won't be long until February 8 when Katie is due. Happy times for our family and love having little girls around. Katie and Billy celebrated their 2nd Wedding Anniversary and just bought a mini van Katie has always wanted.
Scott our son in Washington state just bought his first home. He now has plenty of home projects to keep him busy. We hope to visit him in the spring. So looking forward to Scott coming home for Christmas.
We have started the fall events with a trip to Coney Island for Fall-o-ween with trick or treating and rides. She likes the carousel and we went down the giant slide which she put her hands over her eyes and did it and said do it again after it was over. Jailyn is going to be Minnie Mouse for Halloween. Then we made a trip to the pumpkin patch to get pumpkins for Pumpkin Carving Fall Fest later this month. We just celebrated our 11 year anniversary and went to the Bengals game and then will celebrate this weekend with Dinner at the Precinct and to see the Blue Man Group at the Aronoff. Katie and Billy will babysit for us.
We have had two more doctors appts. We went to the dentist again for our 6 month check up and she did much better. The dentist was pleased with her teeth and the bottom 2 year molars are coming in and the top still not in yet. These teeth coming in has been happening along with the sleep issues these past weeks. Then we finally made it to the pediatric eye doctor. She was great and disliked the drops to dialate her eyes. However the doctor said she is so smart she passed the depth test with a perfect score and the doctor said she has 5 and 6 years olds who can not take the test and understand what she is testing. She was so impressed and said she has strong healthy eyes and wants to see us in two years and said if any eye issues arise we will know by age 8. So the last t is crossed and i dotted with all possible health concerns covered now and she is healthy, happy and thriving. Woohoo!!!!! for having no family history and now we have checked it all and all is good.
Life at the Thornbury home is never dull. It is so fun being Jailyn's mom and dad. We have so many special moments with her. Mike has become the tubby King with Jailyn. They have a blast at bath time and play and have their ritual. Mommy and Jailyn have our schedule and she is really liking gymnastics and still loves Gymboree so much. We are having a blast and she still goes to workout with me. She is the Princess of NO! But she is 2yrs old and learning and challenging us and truly our little girl and not so much a baby. She is in a booster seat at the table and have just taken away the high chair. Today we went to McDonalds and she is an all American girl loves french fries and chicken nuggets. She also went to the nail salon with me and got her nails painted and thought she was big stuff.
I will have to post her 27 month pictures which are being taken next Tuesday and Halloween pictures.
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Happy Fall!
With love,
Linette
