Our silly, spicy girl….

Okay this is my second blog post in less than a week – miracles can happen!!!

Well, I have to hand it to Lydia…..she’s quite brilliant   Yesterday, Lauren came up to me and said, “Mommy, there are two policeman at the door.”  I thought Lauren was joking because she’s always teasing me by saying, “Mommy, such and such is at the door….”  Only for me to go to the door and no one’s there!  So I said, “Nice try, Sweetie!”  She said, “No, Mommy, I’m SERIOUS this time.” So I thought I should at least go and check.  Sure enough, there were two police officers at my door asking if someone had called 911.  I told them everything was just fine and there were no worries on our end.  So he radioed back to the operator who confirmed that the 911 call DID come from our house.  Then I remembered that Lydia likes pushing the buttons on the phone and was the one who’d managed to do the deed.  After I profusely apologized, we all had a good laugh.  I hope she’s not calling 911 to get away from us!  With all the attention she gets around here, she’s probably getting too overwhelmed!

Lydia has also shown us that she has a tremendous capacity to empathize with those who are crying.  Whenever Rebekah cries, she will imitate her and then go and put her head in her lap.  It is SO cute!

Also, she is communicating amazingly well.  At meal times, she will point to whatever food she’d like to eat, point at herself, then point to her mouth!  I guess it doesn’t take long to figure out her needs!  She’s also getting quite picky about the foods she eats.  She’s picky about the texture, temperature, and lastly, it has to be extra peppery.  I have even put pepper in oatmeal and peaches just for her.  Since Lydia comes from a region in China that’s so accustomed to hot, spicy food, she has natural tendencies for it.  She’s our SPICY GIRL!!!