She and Him

Last night I got to hang out with she and him. They fight for my attention.

She is most adorably sweet and just shy of 4. Her parents adopted her from China when she was just shy of her 1st birthday. Michelle, who is my coworker of over 9 years and a friend, went through a very grueling long process along with her husband to get her. 

Watching her grow has been something special actually, as she adjusted to a completely new environment and learned a completely different world and language and to parents she only met when they came to take her home. She is smart,  hilariously funny, very shy, and very quiet. (perfect kid). She loves to sing and makes up her own knock knock jokes.

She doesn't like him very much.

Or if she does it's a secret she keeps to herself. He is my favorite dog. He is older now and I learned last night he is going deaf. Kinda sad, but his sniffer works more than ever as he follows me around waiting for something to fall out of my hand to eat. His tooth rolls over his jowl on one side as he drools silently, and never makes a sound, waiting.... Michelle use to bring him to the office once a week and he would bolt through the door going from office to office and cubicle to cubicle looking for some poor soul to food stalk. And he sits and he waits and never takes his eyes of you. Until one fine day he took a dump right in the middle of the office kitchen. He hasn't been back much since.

She likes to cuddle and discovered last night that her hands were much smaller than mine. She walks down the stairs by herself now. It's amazing how fast they grow up, but she is very special to me. When I go to visit the Yee's,  I go mostly to see she and him. I see Michelle just about daily. I grew up an only child, so this is the closest to nieces I get.