Look at that adorable smile! You wouldn't know that less than one week ago he was sobbing, just knowing that his world was coming to an end. He was wrong.
The last few days have been spent keeping Baby J happy, and helping him adjust to his new family, (and of course, trying to find edible food.)
Most days we travel around taking care of the paper work side of the adoption. Not fun for Wei-J, but necessary. During these visits, Lau Lau, Shu Shu and I do our best to keep him entertained while mom finishes the paper work. Cheerios work wonders, but now we're all out. : ( Sad times - they don't sell any kind of cereal in Tianjin - even in Walmart!! We have some small Chinese cookies to substitute.
When we walk around, Wei-J looks over his momma's shoulder to ensure that all three additional family members are accounted for. He says "aaaa" if any of us are temporarily MIA. Actually... he says "Ahhh" quite often. It means " Pay attention to me," "I want that," "I'm hungry," and a variety of other things.
Although he is not even 15mos, he seems to be experiencing a two year old phase. Developmentally ahead of his time - that's my genius nephew! Too bad it's the twos! ; ) We know he is just testing the limits. Even though I don't want to, I have said "no" to him on occasion. Especially when he uses his hands for anything other than loving.
We have our "special" things we do for entertaining him. For example: Where's your nose?
There's also the "blub-blub-blub" game. EVERYONE must participate!
Today we took a flight from Tianjin to Guangzhou, (in southern China). It was his first flight, and it went wonderfully! He slept almost the entire trip, (Along with momma, Ay-i, and Lau Lau.)
We are now entering the last phase of our trip. Luckily, we think that cheerios will be available this week. Our new hotel is so nice, and much better than the last one we were in. Hubs is very happy because he had American food today for the first time in five days. We found a small place called "Lucy's" that serves all kinds of food. None of us feel brave enough to chance the Chinese take on Enchiladas... we'll leave that to SA town!
In our new hotel, there are SO many adopting families! I think 3 other families have boys! That's unheard of, most people get girls. S-I-L's social worker said that out of 300 adoptions she's helped with, S-I-L was adopting boy number 7.
Little feet running down the halls
shy "hellos" filled with wonder and awe that we are all sharing in this miracle
Yes, I like this hotel.
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