One week together


Lucy is amazing. She's a real character, she loves to make you laugh. She talks to us in baby talk and Cantonese and we repeat what she says and she gets a big kick out of it, totally laughing and giggling. When we sing to her, she sings along with us phonetically, it's really cute. She has a big personality when she's in her comfort zone. When she smiles, she smiles with her whole face, it's amazing. She's really attaching and bonding to both of us. We took her to a big department store in downtown Guangzhou and bought her beautiful leather pink shoes. There were a couple of pair that I liked, but she wanted only the pink shoes. She already has her strong likes and dislikes.

Her favorite dish is conjee, rice gruel with bits of meat in it. She eats it perfect with a spoon with the skill of an adult without spilling a drop. She loves to eat and will almost eat anything, any vegetables, seaweed, spicy food.

She is very active and can get over stimulated to where she can have a meltdown. We are getting to know her and to know what works for her and what doesn't. We learn something new every day.

She doesn't like baths or high chairs. High chairs we can live without, baths are full of tears, we just have to take it a day at a time, where she will eventually get used to it.

After we put Lucy to sleep thinking we'll have a couple of hours to ourselves, we nod off within 10 minutes. James just fell a sleep on the couch!

We have gone on some field trips with our facilitator that have been educational about the history of China, but the most interesting thing is when we just go out and start walking the streets and mingle among the locals.

Downtown Guangzhou is amazing, the streets are literally people to people, very exciting, bustling city. Incredible shopping, I really haven't had a chance, because we've been so busy with Lucy, but I'm going out next week with another mother to do some serious shopping while dads watch the kids.

I have to mention the traffic, we've never experienced anything like it, it's unbelievable the way people drive here, it's hard to explain, you have to experience it. We are going to try and video tape it from the front passenger seat of a taxi. It's the ultimate E-ticket ride, and somehow you always seem to get ther in one piece.

I know we're really going to miss this place, it really grows on you. It's a very exciting time to be in China. We definitely will be coming back.

We also are getting homesick. It's hard living in a hotel room with a 3 year old. We want to get her home and get her into a routine. Lucy is our precious gift from China.