Alison is on vacation with her sister this week. This is the first time she will be gone from us for more than one night. The break is good but the house is soooo quiet. We have had Alison for 16 months. Her language is very good now. We can communicate on just about anything now and she understands. Now we are working on expanding the vocabulary.
In a year she has had some great strides. She has learned to ride her bike, roller skate, roll like a pro on her heelys and learned to swim. We have had our first trip to Disney and a cruise. She has had oral surgery to clean her teeth and extract some very rotten teeth. She has played soccer, tried basketball, danced her first tap and jazz recital and is now loving gymnastics. She has another school year of Chinese (Sunday school each week). She can read, write and spell. She passed her multiplication exam through 12's. She has done book reports, oral reports and a speech / poster board on Thomas Jefferson.
Mostly she has learned to love and to trust. She loves her family. Alison loves belonging. She is a social butterfly. She is our family gatherer. She can't get her family together too often. She calls her sisters on the phone to just talk and every phone call ends with, "can I come to you house?"
I almost can't remember our life without her.
