Kaycee has been very busy this past week exploring everything & eating everything in our house! I feel like I am a short order cook & laundry lady! Who would have ever thought that one adding one more person to our house would add so much laundry! Kaycee continues to add more English words to her vocabulary - she can count to 10 and sing the alphabet song in English. Brian's birthday was the 29th, so now she is constantly singing "Happy Birthday to you", but that is the only words that come out. This past Sunday we went swimming and she loved it! No fear in that girls body! She was a little nervous at first, and cried when splashed in the face. But after her cousins got in the water, things were much better, and she was splashing everyone and jumping into the water. We had her visit to the doctor at the International Adoption Clinic at Children's Mercy in Kansas City. The appointment went very well and he saw no visible issues with Kaycee. The nurse drew 4 vials of blood so they can make sure she has had all of her immunization shots and also test her for various other things. Kaycee is triple jointed in her arm and they could not get a vein to draw blood out of, she kept turning her arm around - sounds gross, but it did not look gross. It took two nurses to hold her down, but they ended up getting the blood out of her hand. I think that the entire hospital heard her screaming. But after a vanilla shake and a quick nap she was up running around the house. We have an appointment next with a pediatric cardiologist at Children Mercy to have him examine her for VSD, which is a small hole in heart. We have known about the hole since we got the referral and had several doctors examine her medical information that China gave us.

We got snow this weekend, and this was Kaycee's first snow experience. Emilee initiated Kaycee to the snow very quickly, and Kaycee loved it, but she hated being cold. Kaycee continues to be very girlie, as you can tell from the picture with her and all the barattes. Kaycee also enjoyed her first fingerpainting experience - she hates to get her fingers dirty, so she used a sponge to 'fingerpaint'.

Everyday we are amazed at the progess that Kaycee makes. Kaycee is such a delightful person to be around. She is very caring, thoughtful & funny!