Someone’s Coming Out of Their Shell

It was a very interesting day today, but it’s 11:00pm and I’m bushed and now have Kate sitting in my lap…so I will probably write about it on the plane ride to Guangzhou today...(tomorrow?) We leave around lunch time here, so that would be…umm…I think 8:pm San Diego time.

Let me just suffice to say that my little friend really came out of her shell today, and showed us her very charming, smiley little personality. She woke up in little yellow thermals, with a sweet mood and a serious case of bedhead. :)

We saw her toddle around…she walks like a 13 or 14 month old, where their whole body moves as they walk…very sweet. She did not cry when we set her down, and other than the fact that she does not seem to like the formula we chose, she was very easy going and pleasant. She even would try to sing or talk with you…pretty much humming with her mouth open. I think she could pretty easily learn to say ‘hi’ and ‘mama’, but you can tell the simple mechanics for other words are not there (until after her surgery), even though she understands language (well, at least Chinese).

Oh, this is so funny, I’m trying to teach her some sign language, and today I’m eating some top ramen noodles and she sits there like a baby bird with her little mouth wide open and leans forward…then as if I’m not getting the picture, she takes her right flat hand and pats her own chest. I’m laughing, “Oh my gosh, she already has a sign of her own making!” After a few bites, which she loved, she pats her chest again, and leans forward with that little mouth open so wide, a 747 could have taken off from there. I’m cracking up and she sees the humor and smiles this huge, adorable smile. When she smiles, her whole face smiles, with her eyes squinted. It makes me happy to see her smile like that…like the sun is shining on a beautiful, sunny day!

Lastly, due to Chinese New Years spring festival, there are fireworks for sale everywhere. Every night you can hear fireworks going off sporadically, and in the morning, see red paper stuff in the street that the sanitation workers are sweeping up. So Kevin took a picture of a table where they were being sold, and was amazed at the size of them. They were HUGE! These were not the size of birthday candles…dynamite comes more to mind. The San Diego Fire Marshall would have a field day. Fireworks are going off as I write this.

P.S. Thank you for all the posts you all have added to the blog. Kevin and I love reading them!!