Day 5.5 - Nighttime in Nanchang
Well we had an exhausting day but here I am wide awake at 1:30 so I thought I'd share a little more about Ivie.
So far she is really calm - she only cries when she is hungry or tired (just like daddy). She loves holding on tight to the toys we've gotten her. She likes the little butterfly that makes noise that Michelle (I think) got her and a little Einstein book with mirrors. She sticks them in her mouth and chews on them.
She's got a bit of a cold. She saw the hotel doctor and her lungs were clear and she did not have a fever. Her nose is all stuffed up and she is coughing and sneezing a bit. So we are giving her medicine and hopefully that will go away.
At 3:30 today we went back to the Provincial Office building to register the adoption. They took a family picture and one for her passport. We then met with the registration official who asked us all sorts of questions like why did we want to adopt from China, what our plans were for her education and would we promise never to abandon her.
We then met with the orphanage director who told us a little about the Social Welfare Institute where she lived for the past few months. There is a nursing home and an orphanage in the same building. But they are currently building a new orphanage and hope to move the babies there in a few months. The director gave us all pictures of the orphanage and a little necklace for Ivie with her zodiac sign on one side and the chinese character for blessing on the other - very sweet.
We had dinner with group 1043 who received their babies last week and are on their way to Guangzhou tommorow. Ivie ate some sweet sticky bun, some rice, some steamed egg and some watermelon. Then she had a little "explosion" which necessitated a full change. I just wanted to announce that Scott was the one who changed her - very brave.
She had a bath and bottle and then fell asleep on my chest. We put her down in the crib for the night. When I woke up about an hour ago she was about 90 degrees from where we originally put her. I watched her for a while. She lifts up her little leg and swings it around to get into a comfortable position. She tossed and turned for a while until she turned another 90 degrees - now lying the exact opposite of how we layed her down.
Tommorow we have to notarize the registration in the morning and then we have the rest of the day free. We are going back to Walmart for supplies and then will just chill.
Now I am going to try to go back to sleep - stupid jet lag.
Well we had an exhausting day but here I am wide awake at 1:30 so I thought I'd share a little more about Ivie.
So far she is really calm - she only cries when she is hungry or tired (just like daddy). She loves holding on tight to the toys we've gotten her. She likes the little butterfly that makes noise that Michelle (I think) got her and a little Einstein book with mirrors. She sticks them in her mouth and chews on them.
She's got a bit of a cold. She saw the hotel doctor and her lungs were clear and she did not have a fever. Her nose is all stuffed up and she is coughing and sneezing a bit. So we are giving her medicine and hopefully that will go away.
At 3:30 today we went back to the Provincial Office building to register the adoption. They took a family picture and one for her passport. We then met with the registration official who asked us all sorts of questions like why did we want to adopt from China, what our plans were for her education and would we promise never to abandon her.
We then met with the orphanage director who told us a little about the Social Welfare Institute where she lived for the past few months. There is a nursing home and an orphanage in the same building. But they are currently building a new orphanage and hope to move the babies there in a few months. The director gave us all pictures of the orphanage and a little necklace for Ivie with her zodiac sign on one side and the chinese character for blessing on the other - very sweet.
We had dinner with group 1043 who received their babies last week and are on their way to Guangzhou tommorow. Ivie ate some sweet sticky bun, some rice, some steamed egg and some watermelon. Then she had a little "explosion" which necessitated a full change. I just wanted to announce that Scott was the one who changed her - very brave.
She had a bath and bottle and then fell asleep on my chest. We put her down in the crib for the night. When I woke up about an hour ago she was about 90 degrees from where we originally put her. I watched her for a while. She lifts up her little leg and swings it around to get into a comfortable position. She tossed and turned for a while until she turned another 90 degrees - now lying the exact opposite of how we layed her down.
Tommorow we have to notarize the registration in the morning and then we have the rest of the day free. We are going back to Walmart for supplies and then will just chill.
Now I am going to try to go back to sleep - stupid jet lag.
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