Here are some of the many pictures we have taken so far. Emily is very little for her age as you can tell walking with her "baba". Her favorite thing right now is to play with the stacking cups and go for walks-everywhere. She started eating for us today. Scrambled eggs, french toast, watermelon, bananas, and congee. And for you adoption followers-we have had a successful poop!!! Our guide helped us out with some "special" chinese tea-and 45 minutes later-eureka!!! We think we are going to get more of this tea to bring home (just in case). We have found that when Emily rubs her hand in her hair she is tired. She really has not spoken anything except mama, baba, and bye bye, and this is hard to get from her. She is very serious and curious of everything. Today we applied for her passport. We have a free day tomorrow. We may go play in the "Swan Room" in the hotel that has alot of toys. We are still trying to bond with Emily. She has not given us a kiss or really relaxed in our arms yet. Sometimes when she cries, she looks as if her heart has been broken. This seems to be happening less though so we must be doing something good here. Will try to keep the updates coming.
She is beautiful!!! Hope you will see smiles and play soon!!! Jennifer
ReplyDeleteCongratulations! We really cannot wait to meet up with everyone! Looking forward to the next few days!
ReplyDeleteShe is a just a doll! And, just so you know, Maiya was very serious at first too. And, she took to her dada first, as did all the kiddos in our group. Roger was the only one who could get her to giggle at first, and it was about a week before I could do it. That was when Roger left the room to complete some paperwork with our guide, so she was stuck with me for entertainment and cuddling. We watched a DVD together and listened to music. She does love music. How about Emily? How's she sleeping? I have to say you're doing much better than we first were with food, so keep doing whatever you're doing.
ReplyDeleteI was showing Maiya Emily's photo's the other day on the computer and she just smiled big and started pointing at the screen. I think she remembers her. Some day we'll have to meet and get the girls together. Maybe in Kalamazoo, since that's in between us.
Enjoy your time bonding. It doesn't happen overnight, but it does happen. Heck, we're still working on it and we've been home for six weeks.
xxoo-
Susan & Maiya