Our Flourishing Girl

Here is a quick video of Donovan and Noemi singing the Lem Lem song that I talked about in my earlier post. It's hilarious to test her--we can start singing it anywhere/anytime and her eyes alert to us and her little hands automatically start clapping. It's like her brain is hardwired to respond this way. The caregivers at Layla House would sing "lem lem" (which means flourish in Amharic) then clap twice and repeat...over and over...it's that simple. And it makes her (and us) smile every time.

Note the drum we picked up for her while in Ethiopia. This girl luvs to drum.

Enjoy...