Coming Around-Day 3

We can eat with a spoon but get about ½ of the conche all over us and we will not wear our bib. She loves orange juice and can drink from a straw great and this is helping because she is now refusing the Chinese baby bottles. Can you blame her when she gets scrambled eggs, French toast and potato chips. Yea that wonderful diet I had envisioned is out the window. She is definitely staying hydrated and not going hungry. Don’t know what we will do when the cookies I brought from the states run out. She will point to the exact section of the snack cup for them. The big news from today is that I got her to sign “More” for the first time. We were sitting outside of a Christian Church that was given in both Chinese and English. She did not want me to sit down so we went outside because it was so hot. We had a cup of water and after practicing she did it all by herself. She is not so good at drinking from a cup and by the end of the service she was soaking wet but it felt good considering we are wet from sweat anyway. It was hard on the local ladies one lady gave me a pack of tissues to dry her off. We were only across the street from the hotel. We then went swimming for the first time and she gave me her first belly laughs she loved it and is definitely my girl. Then it was to the play room and guess what Mom, her favorite toy is the little kitchen : ) She is sill refusing to walk so we crawled around. I don’t want to push her and am working at or below her level to give her the confidence she needs to move forward physically. She is still quite the Velcro baby and is heavy especially when she is dead asleep and we are walking though Guangzhou. I am not ready to yield to the stroller yet maybe in a few days to save my back. It is doing surprisingly well but needs to get some rest. Good night all and good morning to you.