January 14th,2008

Hello again, Today is our son Andy's 20th birthday. He was the baby of the family until we got our precious daughter Samantha about a month ago. Church went great on Sunday. Samantha did not cry at all. We stayed with her of course. It is actually quite fun with children's activities etc.. But she just had to see that for herself. We are finding out how smart our daughter is. We taught her a new game yesterday and she picked up on it so fast and there were quite a few rules. She still has not completely accepted me (anita) but daily we are making more and more progress. Sometimes she accepts a hug from me and sometimes she doesn't. I tried to play a game where each person had to give me a hug for a piece of chocolate. She was not going to be tricked into that. I hugged her anyway and she got a talking to from daddy because she was rude to mommy. Samantha's behavior has drastically improved. We just had to be consistent with the time outs when she misbehaved. Every child will test. I guess she was testing us. She has been sweet and cooperative most of this last week. We still have moments. But don't we all. She is talking alot in English. We go again to the attatchment specialist tonight. We love you all. Thank you for all of your prayers. love in Christ, Anita