Avika at One Year

One year home!  We can't believe it! 

 

 

This summer Avika and I took a gymnastics class.  She loved it!  Her favorites are jumping on the trampoline, forward rolls, and swinging on the rings. She had a hard time sitting still to listen to the teacher and waiting her turn in line, so there is a lot to work on there!

 

 

Swinging with the siblings!

 

The kids were waiting for a program to start at the library and decided to give each other back rubs.  It made my heart melt!  Avika loves to have her back rubbed and always asks for more!

Skateboarding fun with Pop.

We got rid of the high chair and Avika now sits at the table with the rest of us.  Our table is full!  She loves milk and drinks it from her special cup from India.

She has changed so much in the last 12 months, she is quite the young lady now!  She's still delayed in some ways, mostly with speech, but has grown leaps and bounds.    

She seems very at home with all things American and fits perfectly into our family of six.  I'm trying to help her hang on to as much Indian culture as possible- here she is "doing" Namaste for me.  She's wearing her new Gotcha Day dress full of bright colors- just like India and her personality!

 

We are so grateful to have this beautiful girl as our daughter!  We are all doing better than I expected at one year in this journey.  We love her to pieces and love that adoption made our family complete.