New skills

It's quite easy to forget how far my little girl has come in her life journey.  Every day is a learning experience for her.  New people to meet and new skills to learn.  It's also really easy to forget quite how many skills she has learned.  In the orphanage where she is from, she would never have eaten with cutlery, she would have used her hands for this.  So being able to sit at a table and eat cleanly with a knife and fork is a huge achievement, that for most children, at 9 years old, we take for granted.  But how proud am I when I see her doing this.