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kazakh sam skip to main skip to sidebar kazakh sam stella and me sunday january 13 2013 happy new year we welcome 2013 happy 2013 we are so happy to welcome the new year we have had changes good and bad in 2012 stella is thriving her speech is coming along well we have just been accepted into texas childrens for once a week speech therapy it seems like stella drops constanants on a lot of words she also can t say f or w they are still just saying delay which makes me happy stella also attends st mary s preschool and has made a lot of friends along with her mommy great bunch of people and teachers too the downside of 2012 was loosing my precious sweet mom she was so healthy and vibrant in 2011 and at the beginning of the 2012 her kidney s failed and she just was never the same her little body just couldn t handle the dialysis in six months time i had to say goodbye to the most wonderful mom a person could have i will never get over this loss but i know that my mom is where the sun always shines the beach is always warm and she always has a smile on her face miss you so so much mom i was blessed to be able to spend most every morning and wednesdays with mom in those last 6 months the above picture is of mom and her girls taken just a bit before she passed away below is a picture of mom and stella from november 2010 she loved stella and all her grandkids and great grandkids so much stella was lucky 7 mom left us in may and i moved within the same town just a month later got my little white house with a white picket fence and i am able to walk stella to school on most days downtown bellville is just a short walk also oh and a park just across the street we love it here is just another picture of stella before we moved like i said thriving and is such a sweet loving little girl such a character too still loves her clothes and shoes very tiny can wear a 12 mo waist but has just shot up height wise thanks for reading after all this time away i feel so blessed to have stella kazakhstan closed their adoptions shortly after i brought stella home in october 2010 i can t even imagine my life without this little toot posted by lisa at sunday january 13 2013 no comments posted by lisa at sunday january 13 2013 no comments saturday february 11 2012 stella valentine 2012 whoo loves you valentine s card get personalized halloween invitations at shutterfly view the entire collection of cards posted by lisa at saturday february 11 2012 2 comments friday november 4 2011 time flys here it is over a year since stella came home wow i am just amazed stella continues to grow and overcome so many of her delays she is walking or should i say running like a fiend it s a struggle to keep her in my shopping cart at the market because the girl just wants to run go stella just slow down enough so that mommy can catch you working with eci has really helped through their eyes and expertise i have seen her go from this wobbly walk 22 months to a sure footed gate sometimes i have to look back and compare to when she came home she was such a baby at 16 months no muscle tone pale eating only pureed food only knew a bottle now i have a self confident strong willed loving sweet little lady stella didn t really know how to show affection at first her hugs were putting her thumb in her mouth and folding her arms in now i get sweet hugs still the finger in the mouth but head on my shoulder sweet hugs and kisses sometimes you feel this sweet little pat on your back too not saying that she can t be a toot when tired or excited she has been know to slap but thank goodness those moments are few and far between stella is 28 months now i was worried a bit about her talking but now her words are starting to come mostly the basics car ball no go dog cat sometimes i swear she says a sentence but i am not sure halloween was a blast this year we went to a flight attendant costume party and stella practically ran up to the front door stella finally got to meet so many people that went through the years of the process with me seems like ages ago i miss my cal family i am just working one trip a month so it gets lonely at times i do miss my ams and fra layovers one a month is just not enough trick or treating was fun too my little bumble bee got the concept this year and wanted to eat her candy in front of the people who gave it to her now isn t that polite ha ha in sign she would say thank you now she points to her bucket and says d she is addicted i do believe eci is coming over next week to reevaluate missy i am thinking we may be done with them i am kind of sad it s been nice to have feedback from them on what and how she is doing they also persuaded me to put stella in two days of play school and i think that it will help her a lot she just recently got moved up from the 18 mo old class to the 2 and 3 year old class she loves them and there are several mother hens in the class that stella loves this is the best but hardest thing i have ever done i can t even say how our lives have changed i sometimes wonder if stella remembers her life as sabrina on vacation there was a russian family who mostly spoke russian stella paid no attention and didn t seem to recognize the language she has seen pictures of the bh director and she calls out baba russian for grandmother i am not sure if she called her that or not so there must be some memory for months after stella came home i would lay her down and pat her back and walk away now it s a little more complicated books mood lighting crying rocking and holding i cherish those moments that we rock and she lays her head on my shoulder the girl has stolen my heart love you baby girl shine on stella posted by lisa at friday november 04 2011 3 comments sunday august 28 2011 summer fun this slideshow made with smilebox posted by lisa at sunday august 28 2011 2 comments thursday march 31 2011 she s my daughter it just dawned on me i have been stella s mommy officially since august 17th 2010 for me it felt more real when i got her home that was in october so it has been over 5 months it hit me like a brick that i have been her mommy for longer then her birth mother was with her i don t know all of the circumstances of her life before me but i do know that she was with her bm for 3 months a hospital for 2 months then the baby house for 11 months before i whisked her away to texas oh how i love my daughter it s taken me awhile to be able to say that word daughter i don t know why it just didn t seem real somehow enough about the adoption now on to my stella bella she is growing in leaps and bounds her little size 2 infant shoes no longer fit and her clothes seem to be getting smaller and smaller stella came home weighing 15 pounds at 16 months and now at 21 months is weighing about 19 5 pounds she is eating big people food but still gets a bottle for the vitamins and nutrients that she missed she is saying lots of words like chichen chicken bath car cracker bye bye and her favorite is ball she is not so much into toys but she can spot a ball a mile away now that she is home we have had all the doctors appointments to determine that she is 100 percent healthy her eyes that we worried were lazy are totally normal nothing wrong with this little girl such a huge relief oh one thing that i should mention is that she did test positive for tb apparently normal for some of these kaz kids at birth they are given an inoculation with the dead tb virus in it so she will always show positive and they will have to do a chest x ray to determine that she doesn t have tb when a tb test is required my little stella is one of the most stubborn little critters that i have ever met stella is also funny and demands attention from everyone stella wasn t a favorite at her baby house and was very quiet now when i have take her to day care once a week the older kids come running up yelling stella her caregiver there said yes they all know miss stella ha ha my little toot okay on to the pictures we took her to padre island last weekend and we have another kaz water baby no fear and about a month ago she rode a pony funniest thing she had one hand on the sadle horn and the other resting on her knee like a real pro must be in the blood enjoy my favorite pictures of my favorite daughter posted by lisa at thursday march 31 2011 6 comments tuesday december 21 2010 happy 18 months today is stella s 18 month birthday on her first birthday she was still at baby house 1 and i was back home so we didn t get to celebrate tonight we will have a piece of the special pink cake that we had for her back in june it s been in the freezer just waiting for stella this past summer i finally got to meet lou ann and lexie i can honestly say that i have not met a couple of girls that i like more then these two i feel like i have known lou ann for years more then the 3 years that she has been there for me through the times with chi and every aspect of the adoption i know that i can ask lou ann anything and she will give me her honest opinion she and i have so much in common both military brats of pilots attended the same university at the same time her major theater mine art both lived in la to persue careers in motion pictures and television she was successful i was an extra both single kaz mamas finally yesterday we got the two kazakh princesses together a fast friendship was created and i know it will be a forever one these girls even had the same color on stella loves lexie and i see a new light in her that i didn t see yesterday on sunday we got into the holiday spirit and stella tina and i went out to the winery and enjoyed the sunset which you can t see but we really had a nice time posted by lisa at tuesday december 21 2010 4 comments older posts home subscribe to posts atom timeline all important time line june 16 2007 chi meeting june 19 2007 sent in application to chi june 29 2007 accepted by chi october 22 2007 home study visit 1 october 27 2007 home study visit 2 december 19 2007 home study report received december 20 2007 uscis form i 600a sent petition to adopt an orphan abroad january 17 2008 received i 171h approval from uscis february 14 2008 dossier complete sent to translator february 22 2008 dossier to embassy of kazakhstan ny april 28 2008 dossier at the ministry of foreign affairs kaz mofa january 30 2009 got the call dossier came home for expired paperwork february 2009 applied to kids to adopt march 8 2009 home study update visit april 9 2009 fingerprint update at the uscis may 6 2009 received i 171h approval update may 7 2009 received home study report update june 25 2009 fbi clearence received june 26 2009 submitted dossier july 3 2009 dossier to translation july 23 2009 dossier translation complete august 26 2009 dossier at dc embassy november 2 2009 dossier approval by the ambassador november 12 2009 dossier to mfa jan 18 to feb 1 2010 dossier to moe february 2 2010 region assignment almaty may 3 2010 loi june 2 2010 first trip to kaz july 9 2010 trip 2 bonding trip august 11 2010 kaz trip 3 court october 18 2010 gotcha day october 23 2010 home forever followers blog archive 2013 2 january 2 happy new year we welcome 2013 no title 2012 1 february 1 2011 3 november 1 august 1 march 1 2010 55 december 2 november 4 october 3 september 3 august 8 july 18 june 7 may 7 april 3 about me lisa you never know where life may lead you never say never view my complete profile feedjit live blog stats feedjit live blog stats waiting for my stella to come home