It's been 4 weeks already . . .

It's hard to believe that four weeks ago we were still on our way home from Hong Kong and no one else had even met Laiya yet. So much has happened in four short weeks! Yesterday was a very eventful day. Laiya actually called me "mom" for the first time! She usually just comes up and asks me a question or tells me something, but yesterday she was in her room and I was across the hall in my room and all of a sudden I heard "mom". It was music to my ears but I had to act like it was a very normal thing. It tells me she's feeling more comfortable. She refers to her birth mother as "my mother" and to her foster mother as "auntie" or "Mrs. Lau".