It's been a while since i updated and since the purpose is for Michell to one day look back over our journey I thought I would write about everything she has going on. First of all, her visa expired in Feb of this year. We sent in the fees and applications to have it renewed back in November last year but it took until August or so of this year before we finally received notice that it had been approved. We received her new visa a couple of weeks later and it is good until she is 15 so at least we don't have to worry about that for a while.
She started kindergarten and she loves it. She is so smart and eagerly learning new things everyday. She loves her teacher and she has made some new friends. Her teacher says she is the most responsible kindergarten student she has ever met which makes me so proud and also doesn't surprise me at all. She has always been very responsible and such a good girl! She has gotten a lot taller.
She is still a tiny thing though. Her school clothes are a size 4/5 and we still have to wear a belt with some of them. Her shoes size is a 8 1/2. Her and Micah are having to adjust not being around each other 24/7 now that she is in big school. He is still going to the baby sitter 2 days a week but he misses her during the day and is ready to pick her up by the time she gets out. They are still really cute together. She is learning to read at school and so she has been teaching him to read when she comes home. He sits right with her and does her homework right along side her. It reminds me of when Maddie started kindergarten and Mackenzie would do the same thing. Everything Maddie learned, Mackenzie learned it a the same time.
Speaking of the big kids. Mackenzie decided on LSU and left in August to move to Baton Rouge, LA. We miss her so much. We talk to her on the phone almost daily but it's not the same. We are planning a trip to go visit very soon. Madeline is a senior at UNT and still working full time as she works to get her double major. I am so proud of both of them. Mason is in 8th grade this year and still says he hates school and its boring and he doesn't learn anything....lol. Everyone is doing good. Martin and I still love our jobs and we will be in our house a year come October. Time passes by so fast, way to fast for my liking!
Michell still talks to her mom frequently, sometimes a couple times a week. We keep her updated with school and everything she is doing. She still talks to her extended family too. She talked to her grandma yesterday in Honduras. She asked Michell when she was going to come visit. Michell said one day. Her grandma told Martin do you think she remembers anything about Honduras. He assured her that she does. We talk about it all of the time and she looks at pictures of her family.
We had this conversation at the dinner table about a week ago. Martin asked her why she had 2 mommies and Michell said I don't know. I told her that she has two mommies cause she is a very lucky little girl. I told her that her Mommy Karen loved her so much that she wanted her to come live with us so she could have a better life and go to a really good school so that she could be really smart. I told her that she is lucky because some kids don't even have one mommy and she has two mommies that love her soooooo much. We have never really talked to her about why she lives with us and she has never really questioned it. She has less and less moments of sadness like she used to of missing her mom and this makes me happy and sad. Happy that she is not sad but sad that she is getting bigger and those memories probably are a little faded. I want her to remember how much her mommy loved her when she was in Honduras and I want us to always support that relationship as much as we can. I don't want her to ever think she is here for any other reason than we loved her and wanted her and her mommy loved her so much that she let her go. Still hard on all of us,still learning as we go! Still BLESSED beyond measure!
