Hi Laura,
we enjoyed this week with my family and friends, we been out for long walks to get used to the weather -because first days I took things too easy and soon I got a strong headache. So I started to wear hat and muffler and everything went well after. We have a word here, if you don’t respect winter, she doesn’t respect you! Lucky me I was a lot more careful with Briana when going out and she’s only having running nose -this is normal because I take her out every day (progressively more time) and plus she’s back on kindergarten so again connecting with a lot of children. But all in all, we’re both fine. And guess what, my managers allowed me to come only from tomorrow at work, I went on Friday to take over from the person who replaced me, so I feel like I had one more week vacation! But what’s much it’s too much, it’s time to finish this continue holiday and actually I feel great, energetic and ready to start all over.
About Briana, let me tell you she surprised her kindergarten pedagogue and her speech therapist! I have no idea what happened but she’s a lot more active and trying to say more words than before. In first days in kindergarten, when I was going to pick her up at noon, her pedagogue was keep telling me almost daily: `Today a little girl came to me to tell me `Madam, Briana is speaking!` and that followed every day until they got used to it!
Not complicate words but it’s a great start, because before we were having to push hard to make her say words, when being in kindergarten.
She remembers perfectly Tamru, the pictures from Sheila are now part of her speech therapy, I wrote the names of the children from the pictures and the therapist repeats with her to make her pronounce correct. Useless to say that she makes it with such pleasure!
I showed a few videos from the house to Briana`s speech therapist and she said THAT is the best therapy a child can have! Playing all day with children helped her a lot to record all kind of new things, actions, games. She couldn’t express because the language was different but as soon as she got home, she just exploded!
We received these days the letter from Switzerland containing a few nice drawings. We’ll answer back soon. We already have her brand new drawings since she started her therapy on last Monday so I just have to write a few lines.
That’s all the news about us, tell me about you and the house. How’s everybody, dr. Alona, dr. Tamir, Dawn? What about the Angolans children and mothers? They adjusted to the house rules easy?
I hope Mara is ok. I heard Daria is back in hospital with sort of digestive infection, I wish she’ll get better soon.
Here it’s snowing continuously for more than three days, only today slowed down. Briana discovered the pleasure to roll over in the snow and all the time when we came back from the kindergarten, it takes twice than normal time because she just loves to spread the snow all around. And we can say the cold it’s not that cold anymore! Since we came I managed to let the car mostly in the courtyard and I feel great walking daily. Briana just been out for the third time today, my aunt bought three turkeys and she just loves them, she imitates and they answer, they’re so funny. Drop a few lines whenever you have time. Claudia and Briana.