This is going to be a quick post but I really had to share this! Over the past couple weeks little Lucy has started sitting up all the time. She can lean back on a pillow and then even pull herself back up! She can grab toys and do all kinds of things that she wasn't doing when she arrived. She is rolling over and just last week she figured out how to flip BACK over! This is important because it means she doesn't have to yell when she wants to be flipped over. :) So, with all this moving and motor skill development I thought I should get some more toys out. When we moved we packed stuff in places that I don't entirely remember but I did remember seeing one of our clear Book Fundraising bins in the garage that seemed to have toys. I wasn't sure if it was one of Isabel's old bins but I grabbed it and brought it upstairs. When I popped open the lid, this is what I found!!
It was a bin full of all kinds of treasures from the past three years! In 2010, we contracted with our agency and officially started our journey and we started saving things that were Isabel's and also picking up gifts that we thought a little girl might need one day. Almost each item has a story! Isabel remembered soo many things too. She specifically remembers when we bought the little brown baby doll with the blue dress. She was only 4 years old but she said, "I remember we went to place that was having an outside sale and Mimi was with us and we got this doll for my sister. Before that we ate ice cream next door." :)
One of my favorite finds was that beautiful and bright colored zebra! I remember being in Barnes and Noble and seeing this zebra. It was while we were working on our dossier and home study. I saw it and thought, "Our little girl needs that! It looks so fun and African!" Isabel got a cat from the same brand and she still has it too. The zebra was the very first thing that we bought. Here is the link to the post I actually wrote about buying it back in March of 2010. And here....is a picture of Lucy holding it for the very first time. I cried a little taking the picture.
God finishes what He starts! We are so thankful to have this sweet girl home!
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