Raising Anna

These days we spend much of free time, looking after and CHASING after Anna. She certainly has grown! She is larger than most of the children her age, and on the playground she goes wild. She runs circles around the children of the same age, and other parents marvel at her energy and enthusiasm. And with this she has such a friendly and open spirit. She tries very hard to play with other children, though they often avoid her. She greets people as we walk on the road. She smiles, sings, and dances with a contagious joy! However, we are feeling the exhaustion of caring for such an energetic and precocious child. We are constantly cleaning up, wiping up, changing clothes, washing clothes and dishes, etc. Oh the joy! and also the sigh of a hard day's work of raising Anna.