She's an Entertainer

It has been really interesting and amazing how N's personality has grown and changed over the past 11 days with her. When we first got her on last Tuesday, she was very serious and apprehensive about everything, quite understandably. Everything was new to her. She didn't really smile at all the first day, and definitely didn't laugh or "talk". She wouldn't eat solid foods and was crawling just a little but still having problems.

Now she has become our little comedienne and entertainer. She is one of the happiest baby in our group and has a great personality (and that's not just her father's opinion). She loves to laugh, loves to be tickled, and has this cheesy smile and grin she readily gives to people. So of course all the local people love to talk to her when she smiles at them, and she just eats this up.

Yesterday we took a short trip to one of the local orchards on the bus with the group. On the way back she was in a particularly good mood and I was tickling and playing with her. She would arch her back so I would tickle her stomach, and she would let out this loud squeal/scream of laughter that we hadn't heard before from her. She kept doing it over and over, and eventually the whole bus was laughing at her and watching her. She became quite the hit, and one of the parents who wasn't on the trip even came up to me that night and said "I heard N was entertaining everyone on the bus today".

If it weren't for the tortured screams she gives us when we change her diaper or put her clothes on, she would be a consistently happy child! She is a great blessing.