Attachment.

Sometimes I worry about attachment with Gracie. I am completely attached to her but she is taking her time in showing affection, except for her favorite puppy of course. I don't think she completely understands affection yet and I guess that is normal.
She is such a homebody. I think she isn't comfortable in crowds of people. She always takes the hand of whoever she is with and heads for the door. The other day I had to leave the girls at my sister's while we went to my uncle's viewing. When we came to pick them up she ALMOST ran toward us but she stopped. She had to look at both of us and make sure we were hers and then she came to both Chris and I and grabbed us both by the fingers and headed toward the door, as if to say, OK Can we go NOW?

Cousin Savannah and I both decided that Gracie needs a little thought bubble to float over her head and tell us what she is thinking. She is getting very good at communicating without words. When she can't she gets frustrated and mad. She is experimenting with her voice, making new sounds that are not all through her nose, like they are usually with the cleft palate. Today she was "singing" as she was playing her cardboard box "drum:. It's so amazing to see the difference between Gracie today and Gracie in China.
We start food therapy on Friday. This should be interesting.