Blessing Day

"Watson, I think we found a clue"














Sophia meets a local


Yesterday all the families that had been in another province returned to Guangzhou. We all went to a Buddhist Temple to have the babies blessed. Despite the fact it was raining, it was nice to see everyone again and the babies are absolutely beautiful. Congratulations to everyone. Tonight, we get together for a pizza party, hurray!

Sophia seemed to be feeling better this morning. Translation: she was not crying or screaming :) She seems to want to have her bottle every three hours. We probably shouldn't be starting that trend, but for now, we have just been going with it. She is so active that I think she just needs the calories to keep up with herself and she gets very cranky when her fuel runs low.

In regard to her activity level, it is really high! I've taken to also calling her squirmy wormy, wiggles, and squiggly wiggly. Several of the families got together and ordered room service last night. All the babies were on the floor playing and there were some amazing photo ops, unfortunately we forgot our camera card. It was the first time that Sophia stuck close to us. Kat sat on the floor with her and she mostly just stayed in Kat's lap, or very close by. It was probably the most relaxed we have seen her. She seemed to be taking in the whole scene and curious about what other babies were doing. She proved to very adept at taking the other girls toys without being the least bit contrite.

Later the same day:
Tonight was pizza party night. We had the opportunity to see all the families and thank Norman, the Director of the orphanage and the China Team for uniting us with wonderful Sophia. It was almost unbelievable to see all the pictures that had been posted around the room of families that have gone before us and all the update photos sent by the families. The little girls grow into young women...seems to happen overnight.

Thanks to Sophia's birth parents, the Zhanjiang SWI, Norman and the China Team for all that you have given us. Colin and I arrived as family of two and will be leaving China as a family of three. There are really no words to express the gratitude that we feel.



Side note:
I know this may seem completely off the track of our blog and our current thoughts, but as horse lovers, it makes sense. So, on a COMPLETELY unrelated note, Colin and I are keeping the racehorse, Barbaro, in our thoughts and prayers. Reading that he had been so horrendously injured in yesterdays race, was very upsetting to us and such a tragic ending to such a promising young horse.