On Saturday I had the joy of spending time with Little Miss all on my own. I picked her up and she was happy to see me, but not quite herself. About 15 minutes later she looks at me with a HUGE grin and says “Hi Mum Hi” in the sweetest voice. I then realized she had been a bit ticked at me that I had been away from her all week – payback from a baby is profound!!
I dolled my dolly girl up and took her to Let’s Play, a huge indoor gymnasium with loads of tunnels, slides and fun stuff to climb on. I don’t think she had ever been to it before because her eyes were huge and full of wonder as we walked in. Thankfully it wasn’t too packed (or too dirty, we still scrubbed down our hands before leaving). The slide was her favorite thing, its a long steep slide with little tumblers all the way down. It makes you go superfly fast, and after 30 trips down it my butt was numb!! LOL!! She only rode on my lap down it once, then she was totally fearless about zooming down next to me instead. The velocity of her sliding was enough to throw her right back onto her back each time. I marveled that she wanted to keep going, she couldn’t force her little body to stay in a sitting position. But our smiley punkin was in playland heaven. I swear she could have played all day, but I made her stop for a drink of juice. I’ve never seen a child gulp it down like that, she was so thirsty that I think she forgave me for pulling her away from the fun stuff.
After we were all tuckered out (ie: ME) I was going to take her back to the house for an afternoon nap. But my spontaneous side kicked in and I decided that since my babygirl loved music so much I would take her to see High School Musical at the theatre!! I figured that we might only get about 15 mins in before we’d have to go, but again she surprised me and was utterly GLUED to the screen for the ENTIRE movie! She would bop along to the music, and then turn back to me and give me the biggest cheesy grin you’ve ever seen. I could tell she was loving it!
The whole day she wouldn’t let go of me. She would brush her hand on my face, give me kisses, overload me with sweet flirty eyelashes, and snuggle with me whenever she could. When I went to drop her off back at her foster parents home, she decided that she was NOT letting me leave. She threw an absolute tantrum when her foster mom tried to take her from my arms. I mean, screaming – crying – kicking and clawing into my jacket to hold on for dear life. Needless to say it was really hard on me, and her foster mom too (she’s wonderful and I’m sure that was agony for her to have Little Miss show a preference for someone else). “It’s a good thing” she was saying, but I figured she was more saying it out loud to herself in order to handle what was happening. I finally decided that we needed to distract her, so we took her out to see the snow and that helped. It just about killed me to drive away, thankfully I know she’s in the great hands and well loved. Loads of fun times together to come!!
Tomorrow is a huge day for us in the adoption process!! Little Miss’s case worker is coming down to visit, check out our home and meet to discuss how the final weeks will go down. I’m soooo excited and nervous too. It’s at this point where you start to panic, hoping that nothing will go wrong. Thankfully things are looking fantastic and we truly feel God’s hand in this entire situation and process over the past months. 
