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Adopting Elizabeth or better yet, Adopting Mommy!

I am adding to this post, not removing the original content. And I'd like to say that it has been a beautiful journey to be Elizabeth's Mom and to be part of her life. I hope Eli, that one day you can go over this blog that I've created for you and that you will cherish our lives together. I'd like to title this blog" Adopting Mommy" instead. You've taken me, accepted me and made me a better person.

Original Post from 2008 when I created this blog: Some of the pics were taken at the foster home where she has lived since she was born. We have received these photos on a monthly basis together with her medical reports.

Adiciono a este parrafo, sin quitar el contenido original escrito en el 2008 cuando inicie este blog. Ha sido una experiencia fundamental en mi vida el ser madre y especialmente, madre de Eli. Y espero que un dia no muy lejano, puedas revisar cada comentario escrito, cada detalle de este blog y te llenes de alegria recordando cada viaje, anecdota, situacion, dia, evento, vividos juntas. Deseo llamar este blog " Adoptando a Mami" porque me has acogido, aceptado y moldeado para ser la persona que hoy soy.

Parrafo original:

Esta es nuestra Eli. Algunas de las
fotos han sido tomadas en la casa de familia donde ha vivido desde que nacio y
que recibimos junto con un reporte mensual medico.





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Saturday, March 21, 2009

The Brooklyn Children's Museum

These pics were taken during the trip to NYC back in February. We met our friends Sara and Jeff and their children at the museum. We all had a nice time, Eli enjoyed playing with sand, climbing and sliding and running all over.

An update on Eli's progress: She is now talking more and understands both English and Spanish. I speak to her in Spanish all the time and for different things she knows the names in both languages. Yesterday while riding in the car on the way to work Elizabeth said to me: mama dos. I turned around and looked at her and she had two fingers up and the rest down. She was so proud of it and of course I made a big deal out of it and we both celebrated the achievement. The struggle of the fingers up was over!

Last week I taught Eli what her Dad's and Mom's names were. So this week I asked her to tell me our names and she remembered both of them! I was amazed, we had only worked on the names once and that was about 5 days go. She has very good memory.

Elizabeth ate pretty well this week. She loves fish. She also likes avocado, soups, rice, fruits, chicken, pasta, etc, etc. She likes some crackers that I bought the other day. They have brown rice, quinoa, flax seeds and sesame seeds. Very healthy and crispy but very strong in flavor and pretty ugly for my taste and Greg's taste. This girl likes them very much and the other day I even gave her the option of choosing between two kinds of crackers being the other kind less healthy and more tasty and she chose the strong ones! I keep them in the car and Eli can easily eat 4 or 5 of them during our daily rides.

Eli likes to wear my high heel shoes and walk with them from our room to her room. And she does a pretty good job!

Well, I seem to forget many things that I would want to write about Eli. I'm going to have to keep a piece of paper with me as my memory aid. For now, these are the pics from the second part of our trip to the big apple.


At the hotel
Outside our room
Valentine's Day romantic dinner for the three of us at an indian restaurant in Brooklyn

With Mom and Dad on Valentine's

At the Brooklyn promenade



Store in Brooklyn

At the children's museum



Eli and Libia

Sara, Jeff, Tobia and Libia

Guess who?












Having lunch




With Sara

Sunday, March 15, 2009

A trip to the New York Aquarium / Visita al Acuario de New York

Greg y yo decidimos pasar el dia de San Valentin en New York el pasado Febrero. Nos quedamos en un hotel en Brooklyn y el Sabado en la manana nos fuimos para el acuario que queda ubicado tambien en Brooklyn.
La nina estuvo dichosa, le encanto todo, corria por todos lados, miraba los peces y todos los tanques con los diferentes animales marinos, hablaba, repetia lo que le deciamos, en fin, disfruto inmensamente de la visita al acuario.

Estas son fotos de la primera parte del viaje y esta vestida con el "abrigo" que los tios Tim y Beth le regalaron el a-o pasado. No se lo habia colocado en todo el invierno, asi que decidi sacarlo y mostrarselo a ver si lo llevabamos en el viaje y una vez que lo vio y yo le coloque la pava o sombrero, no quiso quitarselo para nada durante las 5 horas que duro el viaje por tierra. Esta pinta nos hace reir mucho porque parece una chica de vida alegre, se ve tiernisima y muy animada.


Pasando a otro tema, hoy Eli tuvo chequeo con el gastroenterologo y a Dios gracias la encontro mucho mejor y todos los resultados de los examenes que le hicieron hce como un mes, salieron bien. Tambien subio un poquito de peso y aumento en estatura. Esta pesando un poco mas de 27 libras y de estatura tiene 85 cms o sea que como unas 33 pulgadas.


Nuevas palabras de Eli: tatana (montana), abiba (arriba), ven, aca, aqui, quibo(quiubo), totuga. Cuando le preguntan cuantos a-os tiene, dice dos. Y le preguntamos que como esta, y dice bien.

La semana pasada le ensenamos a mostrar tan solo dos deditos para cuando dice la edad, pero fue una risa completa ya que no puede sostener sus deditos entonces usa la otra mano para ayudarse y ni asi lo logra.



En el carro, durante el viaje


In the car on the way to NYC.






She must have been sweating but did not want to have her coat off

At the hotel room




On the way to the aquarium









Mirando todo



Tocando...






























We also visited our friends Les and Hanna who had a baby boy last December

His name is Kevin.