Our First Meeting

We met Lana today! She's wonderful! She smiles, she laughs and she loves attention!

We got to the baby house at about 10 this morning. We went into the baby room to meet Lana. She took to us right away. We went outside and spent about 2 hours getting to know each other.

She has her own little personality that was amazing to see. She is curious and pays close attention to everything that is going on around her. Some other children came out to the playground and she watched them very closely. One little boy started to swing on a nearby swing. She was sitting in my lap and started to lean forward and backward, imitating his swinging motion.

Walking seems to be her current project. She would hold our hands and walk us all around the playground. That's the way we spent most of our time today.

One of the nurses brought one of her friends out and they seemed so happy to see each other. The nurse told us that they were right at the same age and the oldest two in the baby room. She says they are competative with each other and both girls hard to learn
to walk.

All the attention and activity wore her out. At about 11:30 she got a little cranky. Experienced dad, Chris identified the problem right away and held Lana on his sholder until she drifted off to sleep. We took turns holding our peaceful sleeping baby until it was almost time to go. She woke up right as we were about to leave. We took her inside and put her in her high chair for lunch and said "Paka", we'll be back tomorrow.