Child Profiles
Monica
The first thing you notice about Monica is her huge beaming smile. What could make her smile even bigger would be a loving home to call her own.
Monica is a happy, outgoing girl who her case worker describes as a loveable Teddy Bear. Despite her past and the three years she’s been in the foster care system, its rare not to see her with a happy grin adorning her features.
Monica is an active girl who keeps herself busy playing with dolls, going to the park, or watching movies. Surprisingly, she doesn’t have to be prodded to do her homework. “I like homework; I do it first thing after I get home from school,” she said.
Monica’s case manager, Claudia, says, “She is just a delightful eight-year old. She loves to play with makeup and she loves to get dressed up. She loves to bike ride and to swim. She loves to try new things; she often talks about how she wants to try snow skiing, water skiing; she’s just up for almost anything… and she’s not afraid of anything.”
Monica was a bundle of excitement as she spent a day playing at the Fiddlesticks Family Fun Center in Scottsdale. “I’m rich, I’m rich!” she squealed with excitement as 12 News Today anchor Scott Light dropped a double handful of play tokens into her hands. After multiple rounds of Skee Ball she was ready to share some time with Light.
“I like snakes, corn snakes,” she told him. When he asked where she had seen corn snakes Monica said at her school. “I touched it, it was soft and smooth. The other kids were all yelling and screaming,” she bragged to Light.
Despite her encounter with the corn snake, Monica is a girly-girl who enjoys dress up and going to the mall. She is at the age where she is learning about makeup. Pink is her favorite color and if she had her way it would be Christmas every day of the year.
Quality time for Monica is snuggling up with a bag of popcorn and a Disney princess movie. Hocus Pocus, Spy Kids and High School Musical are others guaranteed to hold her attention. That is, when she isn’t playing with her baby dolls and strollers. Summers she loves to swim and swim and swim. If there’s enough kids, a good game of tag will keep Monica occupied for hours.
She’s rarely without something to say. Claudia, her case manager, says what makes Monica so delightful is that she is respectful of other children and readily shares her toys with them. She is very responsible and helps the staff at her group home setting tables for meals and helping to make the beds. This outgoing girl might one day become a beautician; she has a talent for helping the other kids at her home with grooming and hairdo’s.
The perfect family for Monica will be an active, loving family that has older children. She seeks a lot of one-on-one time but she is very easy to please and adapts to new situations. Both her case manger and foster mom describer her as optimistic, religious, spunky, talkative, funny, bubbly, curious and dependable. She has an older brother she is very attached to and her case manager says any family should encourage that tie. One thing is for sure, Monica will grace any family with her humor and smiles. She demonstrated that to Light as he closed his interview asking, “How big can you smile? Bigger…bigger.” Monica accommodated him erupting in a huge giggle and laugh; her smile seemed to stretch a mile wide.
For more information on Monica or general information on adoption and foster care, please call AASK at (602)254-2275!
