Comic Stress Relief!

Sera is a master and imitating facial expressions! She is constantly making funny faces and making everyone around her smile! She has the uncanniest ability to mimic whatever facial expression she sees and her eyebrows are so expressive. She loves to raise them and make her face extremely animated and see how people respond. Of course it is with a smile and she eats it up!! She has truly helped us cope with the stresses of work, school, chores and trying to get everything done before Christmas will her absolutely amazing attitude!!

This past weekend, a trip to the mall was quite the experience. We just wanted to run in quickly to one store, and little Sera had other ideas once she found a very captive audience to all smile and laugh at her cuteness! She even had the security guards smiling and waving at her! I am sure that those who were smiling at her noticed her facial deformity, but her smile and pure delight in her laugh were what they remembered! Such a HUGE difference from what we experienced in China!!

She has decided that she LOVES Aubri's fancy scrunchies that she wears on her ponytail and has insisted both Saturday and Sunday that we put her hair up in a spout and put one on her too! She doesn't want to wear her little hat over them while out in the cold, however, since she constantly checks on it and looks at herself in every mirror possible and makes the biggest smiles at herself. She can also make the loudest screams of protest when it is covered with her hat! SO... today I got out a Christmas present of a hat with multicolored pom poms on it, kind of like a jesters hat. She has decided that that is even more fancy and has worn it all afternoon, over her fancy scrunchie! She also added a pair of Aubri's panties to the decor! Of course we laughed and she has enjoyed being our little bag lady! I would post a photo, but Aubri doesn't want her underwear posted :-) Imagine that!

I also have to sit back tonight and laugh at the "update" sent by the CCAA in August 06 when the families before me had requested on on my sweet and funny little girl. If she is MR, I need to get a new job, because she has not only acquired many English words, can count out sets of forks to pass out at dinner to match the number of people eating, but she also knows how to make chicken noodle soup! ( Sad, but we have had Campbell's chicken noodle a few times... ) She will try to help and will go get the can opener, and is very good at letting me know that the microwave is done, by already being in her seat, putting he own bib on and yelling " FINISHED" while pointing at the microwave! She is so in love with her clothing that she is able to sort pants and shirts and SHOW me which drawer to open for her to put them in, while happily chanting " Yang Yang yi fu!!" That "MR" dx is really holding her back soo much! HA!! I truly am a bit worried about what that Dr thought a child her age should be able to do after the neglect she experienced in that SWI... Especially since her reported "cerebral hemiplegia" allows her to eat ambidextrously without making a mess at all! Her toddling walk has quickly progressed this past month to a pretty balanced run, especially when she is gleeful that she will be chased! I so hope that he hears someday just what skills this little one with "MR" has caught up with and can do now!

Right now, I have three "nekkid" kiddos happily running down to the hall to go take a shower!
This house may be busy and always something new going on, but the laughter and giggles are so much a part of every activity that it all makes it so much easier!

Comic relief is the absolute best stress relief!!!