Archive for Isabella
March 30, 2009 at 6:18 pm
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I’ve never done it before. Handed her over to a stranger. Walked away. For two hours. I didn’t quite know what to do with myself. Felt very strange. It’s been, wow, a year and 1/2! I just figured it out to write that sentence! She’s been home a year and a half. Still not as long as she was in Russia.
Back to Puddle Jumpers. I handed her over she went willingly without looking back and she was fine. She was excited, happy and ready. She had her 3 other friends with her and felt safe and confident and ready.
Not sure I was so ready, I stayed in the car in the parking lot.
Until class was over and she returned to me!
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March 8, 2009 at 2:37 pm
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My little Bella Bean has so many cute things she says in her language. I wish time would stop and she would talk like this forever and a day ~ that’s how long I could listen to such sweetness.
Della – Bella (she used to call herself Betta)
Issadella – Isabella
My luf it, k? – I’ll flush it, okay? (flush the potty)
Mecome? – I’m coming with you, right?
Buck-a-dee – bottom, butt
Man-ee – Madi
Ky-la – Kylor
Glash-ishes – Glasses
Doo-delly – Blueberry
Eh-mo - Elmo & Elbow
Dawns – Dawn (our friend)
Pick-a-doo – peek-a-boo
Bam-bidge – bandaid
Bess Fen – Best Friend
Worbles - Marbels
Dellas Della - Isabella’s Umbrella
Sue-mick - Music
Shirk - Shirt
Panx - Pants
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March 3, 2009 at 12:12 pm
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December 17, 2008 at 2:40 pm
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The world is yours ~
Dec 12, 2008
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December 17, 2008 at 2:33 pm
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She caught on pretty darn quick!
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October 14, 2008 at 8:40 pm
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I am constantly in awe of their journey. 
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June 20, 2008 at 1:34 pm
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June 14, 2008 at 6:24 pm
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On Tuesday it was this:
So we did this:
and this:
and on the way back to our air conditioned home,
my sister called to say she was driving to work in a snow storm!
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May 14, 2008 at 12:57 am
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It only took hearing it once. That familiar jingle jangle of the ice cream truck coming closer and closer. It’s unmistakable. And, after our first “ice ceam”, she’s the first one to hear it when it comes around! This years “ice ceam tuck” came early! This was April 5th.
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April 2, 2008 at 12:50 am
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Oh, our Isabella. She is doing just wonderfully. Like she’s been here forever. A two year ride on that roller-coaster, many a days not knowing when and if things would ever happen, sure ended up in us hitting the Jackpot! Hard, hard days they were. Wouldn’t change a one now. Would do it all over again in a heart beat if I had to. But you never really know that in your heart until it happens.
What wonderful days we’ve spent together in the last 4.5 months she’s been home. She is the ONE. Wow. She is so very fond of her brother and he of her. It is a very special bond that they share already, it was instant. It will be nice to watch it grow. Isabella and Madeline enjoy each other too, when Kylor isn’t hogging Her Sweetness.
Isabella came home a bit cross eyed. Turns out she’s farsighted (can’t see close up). She now is sporting the smallest glasses available. And, oh yeah, they’re pink. She walks and talks and still dances. She loves shoes and hats, picks out her own each day and when she finds socks, she is tickled and excited. She always makes me smile. Glasses and socks have slurred “shsh” to them. It’s so dang cute that we all say it that way now… “glashshesh” and “shocksh”. She is daring and brave. She is so very tiny. She holds my heart.
Can you imagine learning a new language so fast? Her Sweetness is smart. She catches on to things that you aren’t even trying to teach her. She likes music. She loves to talk on the phone and can’t be fooled by toy phones either. Don’t be trying to cheat her, she’ll let you know about it right quick! When she first took the phone she had the whole head tilt and everything! She has stolen many hearts.
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