Baby Steps....

Happy Valentine's Day! Today, we explained to the girls what a holiday was...well we tried.. Hannah understood as we discussed holidays with her.

Tigist is feeling much better and is pretty much back to herself. The "Tigist Tude" is back as we like to call it. She is eating some today and hopefully will continue to get back to normal. What a challenge it has been to care for someone you can't communicate with verbally. You can only go off her facial expressions and what Hannah is able to translate or explain for us. Tigist is posing quite a challenge for us but Susan is quite good with her and firm in her directions. I am getting better(I am the pushover in the parenting.HA!)

The picture is a good example of progress. Susan was able to sit down with Tigist, while watching Clifford the Big Red Dog, and do her hair. She has not been able to do this since we were in Ethiopia and the ladies at the guest house were able to help her. Hannah is doing great and is a big help to us. She is learning the ways of our household and is a very good girl. We went to WalMart yesterday and I think Hannah was overwhelmed by all of the stuff, but she listened to me very well and although she wanted to put a ton of stuff in the wagon, I would tell her no, and she would put it back. So, as the title says, we are taking baby steps and things are going well with Hannah and today has been a good day with Tigist. It won't always be easy and we will have high's and low's, but I know we will get through it. Please pray for us and the girls that God leads us and gives us the wisdom and grace to work through it all.