Yesterday, Julia very casually started a story. She has been saying "once upon a time" frequently and then talking to her animals or her clay creations. It is funny that she picked up that phrase because I don't think that many of her story books start with that. Anyway, she started "once upon a time a little girl Julia . . . " And I continued with the start of a China story about a little girl Julia called Bai Bai who was born in China very far away. She lived with lots of kids and had friends named Miao Miao and Na Na. But she didn't have a mommy and daddy. I told her that far away there was a mommy and daddy called Suzanne and David who wanted a little girl so much. There was also an older sister called Cheshire who wanted a little sister. And one day, this mommy and daddy and older sister saw a picture of a little girl and they loved her. They went to China and brought her home and called her Julia Bai Bai.
That seemed to be enough for her right now. We have not pushed her story on her and Julia has not asked. She loves the video that Cheshire compiled, but doesn't ask about it when she watches. It is as if close to this first anniversary, there is a new sense of who and where she is.
This child is such a teacher!
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