Day 7 and 8

We are finally back up online, and in Guangzhou. I am unable to post pictures for some reason. I have posted them on facebook. Hopefully I will be able to fix the problem.

Day 7

It was strange leaving Lily's home province yesterday. I forgot how it felt to have driven that same road 5 days before with one child and now you have two. It almost feels surreal, and then you look down at this little girl in your arms and reality is right there in front of you. It is quite amazing at how bonded and attached you can feel to someone you have just met, especially when you never experienced 9 months of them growing inside of you. I guess that's why those of us in the adoption community like to refer to our children as being born in our hearts, a process that started the moment we saw her picture.

Lily did amazing on the plane. She played and smiled, drank her bottle, and even sat in the chair with Mia. In the last two days she has been sitting up on our laps, before she only wanted to lie down flat. This is great progress as it makes it much easier to travel. Thank you for all your prayers, we were very relieved and are feeling much better about our trip home.

We got to our knew hotel around 10pm we were so hungry and therefore very excited to see Mcdonalds next to the hotel. Even better there is a starbucks in the hotel :).


Day 8

Today we met 25 other families from our adoption agency. It is quite a site with all the children. The majority of the families are on their 2nd or more adoption - amazing to see so many children finding homes. A lot of the children have different medical needs, but some are also healthy. We have really enjoyed meeting the families and sharing experiences.

Lily had her medical exam this morning. It was crazy there, as there were families from other agencies also. Kids screaming, long lines and hot - not fun. The US requires all there shots to be updated so Lily had to get 3. This was actually good, some of the kids needed 6 :(. We were a little concerned about the shots with her weak heart, but nothing we could do about it. She also had to get a TB test, because she is over 2. We will go back on Monday to see if that is negative. The children here are vaccinated for TB so it can show a false positive. If this happens she will have to get a chest x-ray. She hated getting the shots and Lily and mommy shed a few tears. She did fine until around 6pm this evening when she woke up from her nap she was so upset and when I picked her up she was burning hot. Probably a fever from the shots. I gave tylenol and it eventually came down. Sweet baby I felt so bad for her.

We stayed in our room and ordered an Hawaiian pizza for dinner - everyone is already asleep it is 9pm :).

Benjamin and Ethan - Mia said today that she misses her boys. So does Mommy and Daddy. We will talk to you on skype later.