Wednesday, July 27, 2005
Gotcha Day!
We've got her!
It has been a pretty darn amazing couple of days. I
was simply to exhausted to post last night (morning
for you all).
Mia's 'handover' down here in Nanning (a city of
nearly 2 million just north of Vietnam) was
incredible, but remarkable for its calm. We learned
just before receiving her that she has been fighting
off some upper respiratory crud for the last several
days. She has been a combo of simple antibiotics and
IV TCM (traditional chinese medicine) 'something'. Why
it has to be given intravenous = ???. Anyway, she no
longer has a fever and is now on some broad sprectum
bug drugs we brought with us and doing fine -- she is
amazingly quiet and reserved. Barely a peep out of the
poor thing...her care givers were able to tell us that
she is the quietest of the orphanage bunch, but
interacts and smiles all the time when she is with
someone she knows. So we'll have to wait a while for
the smiling and giggling; but she has a good appetite
and already has a favorite toy. :)
OK, so we're ready to come home now!! :) Not a chance.
Still more bus rides to government offices today to do
paperwork and notarizing before flying to Guangzhou
later this week to do the same at the US consolate.
The agenda tonight is pizza from Pizza Hut, if you can
believe it. Most of us are finding the food
experimentation fun to be wearing off a bit, so this
is a big deal :) Tomorrow, shopping at WalMart - yes
very popular here in China too. Mia is such a little
thing that our 12 mo. clothes are not fitting, so I'm
sure we'll be getting a few new outfits.
We miss Grace terribly and everyone else for that
matter, but are quickly befriending several couples in
our group which helps alot. Several from Wisconsin
area if I didn't already mention that.
So much more to say, I'll post again tomorrow.
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