What's Been Going On?

I hate to admit I’m not the blogger that I want to be.  I want to keep a record of life with my girls (and my guys), but life interferes with my wittiness and time to actually think about something to say that might make a memory. 

Things have been going “okay” with Olivia.  She is truly a great little girl, and she is a trooper.  We have to keep reminding ourselves who she is and where she came from just a short time ago, and not let frustration take over. 

We need to rely more on God and not so much on each other, because that just doesn’t work.  Livi wants nothing to do with her Chinese language, only wants to speak English and so wants to be like her sister.  Her English has come along very well, especially when we remember she has only been here for four months!!!  She comprehends a lot of what we say, some not so much, but we usually get our point across.  Where she struggles is basic stuff like the alphabet and colors, things we take for granted.  I didn’t even realize she didn’t know her colors until just recently.  She knows them in Chinese!  So, we have tried to work with her more on that kind of thing and I am really looking forward to her going to school NEXT WEEK.  They have more tools than I do to help her overcome what she doesn’t know. 

Abigail continues to be the bossy big little sister.  Some days, they get along great, others, not so much…typical sisters I guess!  We are encouraging Olivia to be her own person, not try and copy Abigail so much…more baby steps.

We have had a pretty fun summer, I’ve been able to take off most Fridays and do things with the girls; plus we had a wonderful vacation in Hilton Head, South Carolina a few short weeks ago!  We had never been there and now that we have…well, we may never go anywhere else!  It was a great time! 

We sold our boat (sniff sniff), which we’ve had for 12 years, kind of on a whim…thought we’d post it and see if we got any bites, and whoa, it took all of 12 hours.  So, to make up for it, we’ve done a lot of swimming at friend’s houses and enjoyed every minute of that.  Both girls are fish and really do well in the water…

Here we are, in all our glory!

So that’s the quick update from Ohio.  Next up, school starts…