Small World, Time Flies

Today Reagan has been with us one day longer than with her birth parents (2 days) and her orphanage (10.5 months).

Last night I literally chased her through the house to catch her for our bedtime routine. She was squealing and laughing the entire time. When we met her, she couldn't even crawl. Yesterday she wore a size 24month dress to church. When we met her, she slipped into 6/9 months clothing easily and some of it was big on her. I put her hair in headbands and barrettes on a regular basis. We've trimmed her bangs twice. When we met her, people mistook her for a boy because her hair was so short and thin. Reagan talks non-stop---sometimes in toddler gibberish, often in completely understandable English. She hardly uses sign anymore because she just speaks her mind without need for it. When we met her, she sat in silence for 24 hours just taking us in, not sure of what to do or what the heck just happened.

All of this is just to say that Reagan has changed so much in her time with us. But then, we've changed, too.

God certainly knew what He was doing when He formed our family. Do you remember that Sunday School song?

He's got the whole world in His hands, He's got the whole wide world in His hands...