Playing "Dress Up"

Hayden is being a good big brother in these pictures playing dress-up with his little sister. These are treasured moments, so I had to capture it in pictures. They are still "working" on their relationship, but I am praying that one day they will be the best of friends. I have to say Hayden is very tolerant about the whole thing--it's Grace who can get pretty mean with him.
The last 2 days have been difficult---Grace is really testing us by being extremely strong-willed and throwing major tantrums when she doesn't get her way. We are now categorizing her tantrums like hurricanes are categorized---last night's tantrum was a Category 4--she screamed and cried for 30 solid minutes. Today was a Cat. 5--she screamed and cried for what she wanted for 1 hour and 10 minutes. My friend, Amy, has found all of these website forums where others have adopted children this age from China and we found that this behaviour is perfectly normal. She is wanting to control her environment since everything she has ever known is different now, and this is the only way she knows how to do it. It's easier to say then to live it, but we are making it. It does make homeschool hard though! After the Cat. 5 storm, she has been as compliant as can be which is rewarding!