Coloring Undahs (eggs), " tiques"

                                     Coloring undahs, or Easter eggs, check that off the list of firsts.

News flash: Charlotte has an adequate amount of hair to attempt a ponytail.
What's  egg dying without the hand cuffs right?

Because I have not stopped photographing this girl in almost four months, she has been through the ringer with posing, smiling, trying to look happy in moments that are new and confusing etc.  She thinks that you are supposed to say "tiques" instead of "cheese" when smiling for a picture. Precious. 

Tiques

Seeing these girls together, navigating life as new sisters, makes my throat hurt with happiness.  It was so long that we talked about "when Neha would be here, what it would be like" ? My days are no longer sad, or full of yearning.  They are busy, loud, chaotic and overall amazing.  3 months ago you couldn't trust Neha to be gentle with the cat, now she is tiptoeing over the gate to the chicken coop to cooerse Ursella the chicken to give up her bounty.  She returns from the coop with a bucket of eggs, unbroken and carefully carried to the kitchen.   She could hardly swing in a baby swing without slumping out of one of the holes meant for legs.  Her tiny biceps barely able to keep her body upright.  Now, three months later with a little start push, she holds on to the big swing, pumps her legs back and forth and quickly becomes the highest swing in the sky.... The girl could swing for hours now, all smiles, and so far from the pile of child that once was.  The last few weeks her language has exploded.  We have a hard time getting her to stop talking at dinner now, but she is able to kindly take turns telling stories at dinner.  She loves to find lost things, my phone, Charlottes "pup pup" . Anything really.  She is so anxious to help someone in need.  She focuses on my eyes now at bedtime, she hugged my neck two nights ago and wouldn't let go.  She is bursting the way to many hearts, the of her tiniest sister, the one that was quite tentative in the beginning.  Charlotte says yesterday, "I never had a sister like Neha".  This is true, they are all so different. We are happy to be settled and contented in our family.