Finding Fulton: 4 Months of Forever

June 17th marks 4 months since Penelope Mei has joined our family. She continues to amaze us each and every day.

She wasn't too interested in her 4 months picture :)

She recently had her 3 month home check up. She saw Dr Wochner, the fabulous Dr. Bob who has taken care of all of my kids. He was properly impressed with her.

She is up to 21lbs 4oz, 30.5 inches tall. In less than 4 months she has gained 6lbs and grown almost 2 inches!

She is now all caught up on her immunization a until kindergarten. Penelope had immunizations in China. We had options to draw blood to check titers-basically to make sure she really had them and that her system had the proper immune response- but we chose to repeat many of her immunization a including her MMR. We are taking no chances with her!

Penelope has quite the busy schedule. She has therapy 3 to 4 days per week, she is working with physical, occupational, developmental & speech therapists. She is growing to love her therapists. They are very happy with the progress she is making and expect her to catch up to her peers over time.

Right now, Penelope still can't stand or walk on her own yet, but her strength improves each day.
She had a major change a couple of weeks ago-her physical therapist brought her a walker! This was a tough one for mama, hard to acknowledge she needs this kind of help. I still firmly believe she will walk on her own, but we hope this will help her continue to make more progress. She is so proud of herself with it, her face just light up.

When I read it, it sounds like a lot, but in real life it's just day to day. It's already impossible to imagine our life with out her!

The boys are doing great. They love, love, love Penelope. This girl always has someone in her face! She certainly doesn't lack for attention.

Dexter & Quincy are both playing summer baseball. This is Dexter's first year of coach pitch. He loves it. He play baseball at home every day.

Quincy is in tee ball. He is a total ball hog. He chases the ball no matter where it goes.

Gabe will be a freshman so he is now officially on the Newton Eagles Football team! He's been going to practice since he was 2, but now he is the real deal!

She is finally fitting into some of the dresses we bought her in China!

This is her "cute" face.

Umm, yeah. Dexter always has some sort of injury or another. This one was bike wreck. He jumps right back up though!

Penelope LOVES golf cart rides! "Gabe ride, Gabe ride, Gabe RIDE!!!"

Sigh. Still trying on the picture with everyone looking at the camera.

Our adoption agency CCAI celebrated 11,000 adoptions last month! They asked for pictures of the kids holding 11,000 signs, this was Penelope's contribution.