Well time has gotten away from us. Thanks for continuing to check in. Things are going great for this new family of three, though the camera has seen limited action in our new 24/7 world together.

To begin, Little Miss Aitugan has amassed a slew of new nicknames. Some will stick, some will fall by the wayside, and certainly new ones will will follow. Currently she is most often Aitugan, frequently Tougy, routinely Monkey, sometimes Tougleton, occasionally Aitutu, and errantly Bokar, Daouda, Midou or KJ.

She has been visited by KJ's parents, my father and older brother, and today my mother comes for a few days. Additionally she has made day trips to Boston, Portland (ME), and Freeport. She's had two pediatrician visits, two chiropractors visits, visited our adoption agency office, visited KJ's vet hospital (3X), gone out to eat a half dozen or so times, gone snowshoeing a number of times and has made several visits to our local YMCA.

At the Y, our courageous daughter first took place in a parent/infant swim class, and then yesterday joined gymnastics/roll around group. In every occasion Aitugan continues to demonstrate motor skill levels above her age and we are greatly encouraged by her willingness to try new things and actively engage in her new world.

Here at home she is definitely settling in very well. She continues to want to walk everywhere, though not yet unassisted. She loves to walk behind her push cart, and climb stairs. For whatever reason she seems endlessly interested in the dogs when they are eating and at every opportunity cruises over to their bowls to look in and watch them eat.

Not surprisingly, the dogs demonstrate the same level of interest in her eating - though perhaps with slightly different motivation.

Our adjustment to our new lives has continued to go well. Seemingly every hour has a moment or two where upon we find ourselves frozen in our tracks amazed, incredulous, or otherwise bewildered by something that has just happened be it a look she gives, a sound she makes, something that came out of her, or something that went in.

All this is not to suggest that these first three weeks home have been nothing but smiles, laughter and glee. There have certainly been some rougher times where we find ourselves with an irate, overtired little girl wrangling in our arms with seemingly nothing we can provide to sooth her, but thankfully these are the exceptions.

Well our little angle has awoken from her nap and so I am racing to finish this with one hand before the bottle in the other goes dry, then it's up to diaper land and back to the playroom for a while. Take Care.