Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday to our Mandy, who is 4 years old! Wow,  it has been over a year since Mandy’s gotcha day!  We are going to have a birthday party for her on Saturday but we did celebrate at Preschool with homemade cupcakes and juice and then we met Shelly’s girls and had a fun lunch at McDonalds and we play, play, played!  She has come a long way from the little girl that cried for hours and screamed “My Mother has left me!” at any passer by in Mandarin.  She is quite a character and has Attitude with a capital A but is turning into a loving, creative little girl.  Her language has finally caught up with her mind and she is now truly talking and describing what her life is to her.  On Saturday, we were driving to Shelly’s to take some things to her house and Mandy talked nonstop about Cinderella.  She went into every detail and every scene. It takes almost an hour to get to Shelly’s’ house and she didn’t’ stop talking.  Her monologue included sound effects and when the Royal messenger comes to the Cinderella’s house – she said “and he went ding dong” and just continued.  Anyway, again Happy Birthday to Amanda Paige Xin Jie Ball who is now 4 years old!