Tiffany's

We have been home a little more than a week. To say Annie is adjusting depends on the definition of adjustment. She clearly knows what she likes, doesn't like and she will express those opinions readily.

Annie loves shopping bags with handles on them. The kind you might get at Victoria Secrets, not the Target or Wegman's plastic kind. She loves loading them with anything she can find, her cell phone,( or ours) blocks, keys,(again ours) her tea set, etc. She then carries them from room to room loading and unloading them. A week ago our dear friends Marilyn, Kara and Candice gave Annie a beautiful tiny heart necklace from Tiffany and Co. It came in the signature aqua blue box with a white ribbon and inside a Tiffany shopping bag.We put the necklace on immediately and made sure to save the box and bag.Three days later Annie found the shopping bag, looped it over her arm and pranced around the kitchen. She then abruptly stopped, opened the bag, took out the box, opened that only to find it was empty. She was indignant! She started ranting in Chinese.  I clearly knew the point she was trying to make: 
"Where the heck is my Tiffany necklace?"I quickly said: "I know where it is, come with me." She trotted along beside me to her bedroom where I showed her that I had safely put the coveted piece of jewelry on the shelf in her room along with the plastic panda bracelet we gave her that matched her sweater. Annie insisted on wearing the necklace. Uninterested in the  panda bracelet  she tossed it aside as she placed her tiny hand over the equally delicate heart around her neck, she then placed the handles of the Tiffany shopping bag over her wrist. Satisfied, off she went to find treasures to fill her bag.

The girl has standards!