Odds and Ends

Morgan and Ana love to dress up and dance and sing to all kinds of music. Cousin Whitney was over and joined in the fun and Tanya even joined in for a couple minutes. Progress.



Girls just want to have fun.

Also this summer a lot of hornets have been captured along with numerous dragonflies.


Wednesday Ana had her two week check up and is doing AMAZING. She kept asking the Doctors if she could ride her bike and scooter. No was the answer, but they did say yes to swimming and ballet! Yippee! Things are healing well and her heart is already half the size it was before the surgery. AMAZING. She actually has a pulse in her feet now and her blood pressure is what it should be for an eight year old (in both arms and legs!!).

School note. Even with classes this summer the kids are so far behind in Math and English that we did decide to hold them back a year (two in Tanya and Ana's case). The charter school has been great and has extra reading and math classes set up for the girls. We'll see how things go this year. Things get better every week, but Tanya still just doesn't get things so we have decided to go ahead and find a therapist for her to start working with even though her English is still pretty basic.

Ana was also diagnosed with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (a mild case, so we will be going to a clinic for that). Actually we are going to take Tanya and Victor in also and see if they have any of the symptoms/features. We're still working with the insurance trying to do a different test for the TB... it's more accurate and maybe they won't have to do 9 months of meds. That would be nice. Next month we can start capping all of Ana's teeth!! Cold things won't hurt anymore. And we'll finish up the fillings on Tanya and Victor. I would like to email the orphanage to tell them not to give them tea full of sugar 7 times a day. Ana's teeth are just rotting out of her head, but they couldn't do anything till after the surgery.