The countdown continues! Our overnight visit with Kiddo went very well. She settled in to our house nicely, demonstrating natural curiosity about everything, and we had a great (almost) 24 hours with her. No broken bones. No temper tantrums. No disasters. And I'm just talking about Roger and me. We did learn some important things this weekend. Here are the top 5 tidbits we can share: So, remember how we told you that Kiddo was 6? Yeah. About that. Apparently, she's 7. While we were absorbing all of the other information about her, she had a birthday during the time between her initial referral and our first meetup. We completely blocked out the fat that she had turned a year older. Oh well. Ice cubes in the bathtub are the best stress reliever ever. In one of our earliest meetings with Kiddo, we shared with her that throwing ice cubes into a bathtub can be a great way to relieve anger (Thanks, Katya, for that Pro Tip!) . It ma...
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