Confusions

With a new baby getting ready to come to our house (4 weeks to go) we have been talking a lot about babies and adoption. Sienna seems pretty confused.

Sienna knows she is from Vietnam and that we went to get her when she was (in her words) "a little, tiny baby." She has looked at so many of the pictures and knows that we wanted a little girl and knew she was in Vietnam and we received a picture of her and had to wait. We then went to get her and took her to our hotel and walked all around Vietnam (the whole Hanoi concept is a little lost right now) with her and then brought her home on a big airplane.

She has thanked us several times for getting her in Vietnam (while about melting into the floor we told her SHE has made the biggest difference in our lives). She also told me she was going to 'save' me the other day. When I asked her what she was going to save me from, she told me Vietnam. We then had a LONG talk about how she was well cared for in Vietnam, she was just waiting for a mommy & daddy. We also told her Vietnam was a wonderful place and we were all going to go there for a visit when she and Ahren are older. I don't think she understood, but I will continue to try!

This whole baby in mommy's belly is weird for her - although she is handling it very well. She knows that we are getting things ready for this child to come out, but it is still a pretty abstract concept for her. We'll see!