Tuesday, August 02, 2005
Guangzhou!
Well, hopefully the attachments make it through. These
pics are a few days old now, hard to believe we have
had Mia for a solid week now.
After several delays and a late arrival, we did make
it to the White Swan hotel in Guangzhou last night. I
have to admit it is pretty darn amazing; the nicest
hotel I've stayed at anyone I believe. Today was Mia's
Chinese medical exam to complete another portion of
the adoption process...it was pretty much a joke. Kind
of one of those 'once overs' (ie 'let's see...2 arms,
2 legs, 2 eyes, breathing...OK, next!) It was
incredibly hot once again, and we figured the kids
might be running 'temps' just from that but everything
went fine for the little girls. It was pretty sad
however looking at the equipment this clinic had to
work with...one of the docs did the E.N.T. exam still
used that round head reflector for looking the ears
and throat -- no otoscopes to be seen anywhere. Then
we did some more shopping; I completed my quest for
buying a simple Chinese version of chess.
Mia is doing wonderfully. She is simply charming our
pants off -- new stuff everyday. Seems to be an
evening kid. Tonight Lisa was trying to get her to bed
and she decided to start babbling. She is still way
behind in most developmental areas, but she's making
daily progress. Just some good nutrition and
attention...the orphanage she's from definitely needs
some help. The other parents who are here from other
orphanages across China have 8 and 9 month old kids
that are developmentally very close to right on and
weigh more than most of the kids from our group, who
are on average almost twice their age. Sad, but so
glad we got those girls out of there....
Gotta run, take everybody, I'll right more soon.
