Just when I thought she was getting it.....

For about a year now we have been telling Sarah her special Vietnam story at bedtime. It is a really big deal to her to hear her "Nam Story" every night, so if we have a babysitter we have to prep Sarah that the sitter doesn't know that story and won't be sharing it with her that night ('cause we learned the hard way on that!).

The story goes from her birth in VN, to her arrival at the orphanage where the nannies took very good care of her, to our trip on a plane to adopt her and make her our daughter, to our return trip home on a plane and where she lives now. As her verbal skills have improved she has been able to repeat portions of the story. Throughout a typical day she will frequently see (in the sky, on TV, in a book) an airplane and then proceed to say,"One day mommy daddy plane adopt you me...." As time has gone on, she's started adding things after the word "me" -like "door on airplane" and "key door airplane". Then she went even further and started tacking on the end, "choo-choo train, boat, and bus" if we were out and she saw one of those. I always thought that was ironic since we actually took all of those things with her in VN. So I have been confirming for her that yes, indeed, that it true.

Recently we were out and drove past the local water amusement park. She looked up at the huge slides and proceeded to say, "One day mommy daddy plane adopt you me....big slide, wee, splash." Yeah, that is not part of her adoption story.....