What We Have Learned About Kelcy

So we have spent about 10 days with Kelcy so far and have started to learn some things about her personality.  Did I mention that she just turned 3?  First of all she is a very brave little girl - she said goodbye to her Foster Family last Monday morning and got on a bus with a nannie from the orphanage and then drove for 3 hours to get to Nanning where she met us in a shopping mall pavilion. We can tell that she was well loved and taken care of by her Foster Family - she has a healthy build and her foster mother packed all kinds of snacks for her.  She wears a size 3T and weighs about 30 pounds so she is a little bigger than we thought and were so happy to have access to a stroller.  She did great her first day with us,,,took a nap, ate dinner, took a bath, and went to bed....she even smiled a little.  She is getting more comfortable every day and is able to tell us what she wants and does not want.  She loves her yogurt drinks and instant noodles - much like the ramon noodles that I ate in college.  She also loves pork - anything pork so we are hoping this is a phase because she may not have had a lot of meat in her diet and will try and balance her diet when we get home because living in a hotel makes it difficult to get into a routine.  She loves to take baths and use soaps and she loves hand lotion.  She also likes to brush her teeth and I have been able to get her to do so in the morning and night time - I think that she thinks its fun to spit in the sink.   She also goes down for a nap fairly easily and I hope that that continues when we get home.  She loves to play and laugh and be silly and she will run up and give us hugs.  She loves Conner and will only hold his hand when we are out walking and Conner has been a great big brother and takes her hand when we are out and about. 
She does not like to keep shoes on her feet and will kick them off the minute she sits down anywhere- taxi, restaurant, stroller.  She does not like to wear seat belts in the vans that we are traveling and did not like having to put one on the airplane - so we are worried about how she is going to handle a car seat!  She is also comfortable letting us know when she DOESN'T want to do something or give up something - did I mention that she is 3?   She can scream extremly loud when she is unhappy with something and she has learned how to hit very well.   Our guide mentioned that some toddlers are allowed to have melt downs and tend to hit their parents - we actually saw that ourselves on the streets and saw some similarities in how Kelcy would react to us.  Our guide mentioned that Kelcy may have been spoiled so Tommy and I need to set guidelines when we get home but our guide mentioned that we don't start until we get home,  So many of you will probably see some of this behavior when we first get home so our challenge in the first few months will be to learn how to communicate better with her and also to correct some of that type of behavior but that will come in time.  We feel very blessed to have her in our family and we are all getting settled into a family of four.