Wow...what an amazing night. This was so not like I was thinking our 1st night would be. Sydney as well as Miata (her friend next door) did wonderfully last night. Sydney slept the entire night through, unlike her father who woke up at 3:30 and couldn't go back to sleep. It was very neat to listen to her making her little night noises, sighing, grunting, and (every now and then) sucking on her fingers. We woke her up at 7 AM and she just checked us out again
One this is for sure though...she does love her new sisters
That's all the energy I have now...time for bed. Thanks for journeying with us.
One this is for sure though...she does love her new sisters
She's still not too sure about me yet. She'll let me hold her
But if I try to get too close she's like "What??"
Finally...London has a real live China Doll to dress up :)
Sydney just loves taking blocks out of the box, handing each one to you, until the box is empty, then she takes them, one by one, and places them carefully back in the box. Everything she does is so slow and deliberate and serious. Every now and then she claps the blocks together and looks up at us to make sure it's OK. It doesn't look as if she has ever fed herself either...we'll put some food on a plate right in front of her and she'll just look at it. She can be very hungry, and if I pick it up and put it in her mouth she'll bite my finger trying to get it, but it can be sitting right in front of her and she'll just stare at it.
This morning for breakfast we fed her congee (a Chinese rice dish that tastes like cream of wheat) with some cheerios mixed in. She also ate some fried rice with eggs, and some yogurt with a little jelly mixed in. She is definitely into eating. She also loves her little sippy cup...that's like her security blanket. If something makes her nervous she grabs that up and starts biting/sucking on it. A lot of orphanages will cut the tips off the nipples so the formula will flow very quickly. The babies learn to bite the nipple to stop the flow, and open their mouth to resume the flow. She doesn't really know how to suck and her cleft palate may make it even more difficult than normal for her to suck. She she bites and kind-of sucks on the sippy cup and manages to get some down.
After breakfast we went to the Guangzhou city park. The statue is of 5 rams each with a head of grain in their mouths. The city mythology tells of a great famine that was in the land and the 5 rams came down from heaven with the grain and broke the famine. This is a very famous park for Guangzhou.
Here's Ginger with her little papoose
There are some awesome relics from ancient Chinese history at this museum. Here are just a couple. This is a water clock. The top container would be filled and the water flows down to the lower container in a measured amount of time.
This is an unbelievable piece...you have to see it to believe it. It's an ivory ball that is so intracately carved it's amazing. If it were just a carved ball that would be one thing, but this is actually 10 ivory balls inside each other, and each one has characters carved in it to make a story.
Of course that pales in comparison to our little girls first steps (at least her 1st steps with us)
Victoria wanted me to take this picture at this angle. In a previous post I mentioned how the Shitzhu looks like the Chinese dragon...this picture really shows that to be true
At the end of the tour...the moment I was waiting for finally arrived.
This morning for breakfast we fed her congee (a Chinese rice dish that tastes like cream of wheat) with some cheerios mixed in. She also ate some fried rice with eggs, and some yogurt with a little jelly mixed in. She is definitely into eating. She also loves her little sippy cup...that's like her security blanket. If something makes her nervous she grabs that up and starts biting/sucking on it. A lot of orphanages will cut the tips off the nipples so the formula will flow very quickly. The babies learn to bite the nipple to stop the flow, and open their mouth to resume the flow. She doesn't really know how to suck and her cleft palate may make it even more difficult than normal for her to suck. She she bites and kind-of sucks on the sippy cup and manages to get some down.
After breakfast we went to the Guangzhou city park. The statue is of 5 rams each with a head of grain in their mouths. The city mythology tells of a great famine that was in the land and the 5 rams came down from heaven with the grain and broke the famine. This is a very famous park for Guangzhou.
Here's Ginger with her little papoose
There are some awesome relics from ancient Chinese history at this museum. Here are just a couple. This is a water clock. The top container would be filled and the water flows down to the lower container in a measured amount of time.
This is an unbelievable piece...you have to see it to believe it. It's an ivory ball that is so intracately carved it's amazing. If it were just a carved ball that would be one thing, but this is actually 10 ivory balls inside each other, and each one has characters carved in it to make a story.
Of course that pales in comparison to our little girls first steps (at least her 1st steps with us)
Victoria wanted me to take this picture at this angle. In a previous post I mentioned how the Shitzhu looks like the Chinese dragon...this picture really shows that to be true
At the end of the tour...the moment I was waiting for finally arrived.
The above pictures were on the bus coming back to the hotel from the museum. We stopped off at a mall to pick up some small umbrella strollers, but she was asleep in my lap and I just stayed on the bus and loved on her. It is so sad to think that this was probably the longest anyone has ever just held her and appreciated her. The orphanage that she came from was definitely one of the best...but it's just not possible for the children to receive much individual attention. The past couple of days have been filled with so much joy I only just now thought about what Sydney's birth-mother is missing out on. We'll never know for sure, but I'd like to think that she gave Sydney up out of great need and with much tears and sadness. The alternative would be even more sad.
Back at the hotel we find out, to our surprise, that Sydney does NOT like grapes. Who ever heard of a kid not liking grapes?
That's about the only thing we've found that she doesn't like. She is quite the eating machine.
Finally....here is a most excellent video
Back at the hotel we find out, to our surprise, that Sydney does NOT like grapes. Who ever heard of a kid not liking grapes?
That's about the only thing we've found that she doesn't like. She is quite the eating machine.
Finally....here is a most excellent video
That's all the energy I have now...time for bed. Thanks for journeying with us.
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