1 Year Anniversary

Today is Kora's one year anniversary of her Gotcha Day.  It's hard to believe a year has gone by already since we were in China.  But yet it feels like Kora has always been apart of the family.  Here is a picture from a year ago in Guangzhou.

   

We all have come a long way in the past year.  When we first got Kora, Jesse and I felt like we were babysitting somebody else's child without any information on what to do with her.  But now when we look at Kora, all we see is our daughter who we love the same as our other children.  Megan and Jason have learned what it's like to have a younger sibling to play with and also to fight with at times. 

Kora has gone from a baby who could only sit and crawl on her belly a short distance to a girl who runs and climbs up and down on furniture.  She also went from making a few sounds to saying probably a hundred words.   Kora started out hating anything to do with water, and now she loves every kind of water.  She would never get out of the water if it was her choice.  She went from being scared of everyone but us, not wanting anyone else to touch her to shaking other people's hands at church and saying hello to everyone in the grocery store.    I can't wait to see what happens in the next year.