Well exactly one more week and Olivia gets her new cast. We (and she) are very excited. She is pretty happy all considered and with her new chair and table that daddy made her 2nd week in the cast, she can do so much more. Daddy also added a potty bucket to it. The potty part of the cast is the hardest, since her cast is almost in a laying position.
She was so happy about the chair, and even the next morning when she woke up the first thing she said was "thank you for my chair". I will post photos of it soon.
Olivia is doing MUCH better. She seldom has tantrums anymore, they were a DOZY for a while. We honestly just ignored them and demo'd how we wanted her to ask for things, or behave. When she through a big tantrum we would take her to her room and let her throw the biggest tantrum she wanted. Then when she was done she could come out. In the beginning they could be an hour long. Then she learned that once she was calm and asked for things she was much happier and got more of what she wanted. I must say the cast also helped LOL Before the cast she would throw herself all over the room and hit and scream. But the cast really limits her ability to do that. She would at times bite her shirt, since that was about all she could do. It has now been weeks since she has thrown any tantrums.
Her English is amazing and she understands almost everything we say. She is also very good with please and thank you. If the twins forget to tell her thank you, she even reminds them...LOL
The sharing is also getting much better. That was also really hard in the beginning, but we knew that she never really had things, and now she wanted to hoard her things... and she wanted ANYTHING that anyone else had. (Which is not uncommon in most children).
We have tried to really praise her for sharing, so now when she shares she likes to point out to us that she is sharing... she will say "look mommy, Olivia sharing... good job Olivia"... she always tells her self good job...LOL
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