An Orphan NO MORE!!!

Well, mommy is sick and we hate it here. But I have managed to get some pictures uploaded so here you will find Ivanna's journey as the Stratton Princess of the family. She has all kinds of things she wants to teach her brothers when she comes home.

Darlena got sick I believe from the significant weather change here and all the rain we experienced this past week. Luckily Nadiia stopped with her this morning and helped her get some much needed medicine and with our tender loving care and the medicine maybe she will be well in no time.

Ivanna is so sweet when mommy is laying down she goes up and rubs on her face and just mumbles the sweetest way to her. So sweet. She has come such a long way in just the few days since she left.

She now sits in the floor and plays with her legos and just sings away and she comes to us for approval of whatever she is building.

As you can see from some of these pictures she is entertained by her mirror I am so glad we made the decision to put one in her room however we may have to lower it some when we get home.

She is just loving life for sure. On Saturday and Sunday she spent some time with her biological parents. Saturday she visited the zoo for the first time and believe it or not she liked feeding the animals and really liked pulling on the ears of the goats.

She is eating great - mommy is feeding her to get her to slow her eating habits down quite a bit and so far so good. She is also feeding her more frequently so she begins to understand that food will be there for her and no one else is going to take her food away.

I'll leave any other updates for the Stratton Queen to update since she is much better at this than I am.

Thanks for all of your prayers and we can't wait to see those of you back home that have been following. Maybe even some of you will come to the Buddy Walk this year (and her SEVENTH birthday is the same day).

Later,
Stratton's

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