Tuesday, March 3, 2009

The next morning at breakfast he ate a banana, a yogurt, 2 eggs, toast, milk, juice, rice, a small spinach roll, and finished it up with the rest of hope’s cocoa cereal. It’s like he’s never eaten before. Our guide said that he is used to eating whatever is placed before him. So, we are doing better with that now. Today, we went back to the civil affairs office to make our adoption official. We stood in front of the red wall and they presented our certificate and handed Micah a stuffed panda. We had our photos taken and then headed to the police station for getting Micah’s passport ordered. Before I go on I need to add that Hope has been doing well with everything up this day. She has been up a lot during the night so when it comes nap time she wanted to continue to sleep on through to the night. She is quite a creature of habit so switching her sleep times has been close to impossible. After getting the passports ordered, we headed to the market. We did some shopping, bought a few items for ourselves and some toys for Hope and Micah. This was very difficult for me since the only person he lets hold him is me. He weight about the same as Hope. (Not kidding) So any chance I got I let him walk around. Water here is very expensive since you need to drink it boiled to be safe, so we bought a bunch so we wouldn’t have to but the six dollar bottled water in the hotel. Lunch time came next. Guess where Hope wanted to go? KFC. They have them everywhere. It’s similar to ours but Chinese style. Hope and Micah played in a play area in the corner which has a slide and some climbing areas. We played with 2 other Chinese boys about his age. Hope is idolized here because of her light colored hair. Our guide said that in China the people think that any child with blondish hair is one of the most beautiful in the world. Everywhere we go people just stare at her. People even stop to take pictures with her like she is a celebrity. She loves it. We are asked by many, if we are Chinese? People look at Micah and say, he is Chinese? I say yes, he is, they look puzzled. I don’t think people in China are aware of adoption. Strange?

Next we headed home for a nap again. This time Hope wouldn’t get up. She slept from 1:30pm to 1:30am. This meant room service for dinner. We ordered a rice dish and a pizza from pizza hut. We ordered pepperoni and they called it American style pizza. We were worried what might come, but it was very good. Micah of course ate anything we handed him. That night was rough. Starting at 1:30am, Hope woke us up every 30 minutes to ask if it was time to get up yet. Steve and I took turns playing with her and coloring. When she is awake, she is awake. So when morning came, we were more tired than the night before.