Yesterday we drove to Jacksonville for Saiya’s readopt hearing. We met with the Honorable Linda McCallum who presided over our hearing. The lawyer asked us a few questions about our family and our daughter and the judge even asked Saiya a few questions. The hearing was brief, but so important!
After the hearing we headed home. We planned a big party for Saiya with skewers from the grill and a huge ice cream-cookie cake I had specially made for her. Both Chris’s family and mine were there! It was definitely a happy, wonderful day!!
A funny story: the night before we went to Jacksonville for the readopt hearing, Saiya told me that she wanted to go back to china to see all of her friends. She misses them. I told her that she has lots of friends here who love her. She said they don’t count because they don’t live with us. Then she said… Mama, I want a baby sister! HAHA! We are just now getting through this adoption and we haven’t really thought about going back to China for a second child, but there you have it. My daughter is lonely and wants a friend who will live with us (aka, a baby sister). I think also, she doesnt want to be the youngest anymore. Syrafina is 18 months older and when they play together, she is always the baby while Syrafina gets to play the mommy. She wants to be the older child for a change. The same thing happens at school because she is the smallest one in her class. She loves to help cook and clean and take care of people/pets, but she never really has the opportunity to do so because of her age/size in relation to the kids she is playing with.
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