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Friday, December 13, 2013 Today we woke up to the sound of wailing city alarm sirens...like the kind you hear during a typhoon warning. Kaden didn't seem too bothered by it, but Jason and I were trying to decide if we are supposed to evacuate...go to higher ground...find a basement...stand in a doorway...stop, drop and roll...We had no idea what was going on. We come to later find out (thanks Mike) that this was done to memorialize the hundreds of thousands of civilians who lost their lives to the hands of the Japanese in the Nanjing Massacre on December 13th, 1937. Let me just tell you that city wide warning sirens are not what you want to hear when you're in a foreign country! Today we threw Kaden's schedule off a bit because we had to wake him up early from his nap so we could make our flight to Guangzhou. This was going to be Kaden's first plane ride. Mommy was a little nervous about this whole process. So to make up for disrupting his nap, he got a lollipop. But he didn't like the nice organic lollipops we brought from Mother's Market...he wanted the ones we bought here- full of sugar...great, right before a plane trip where he has to stay confined in one space. He actually did phenomenally well for his first flight. We were so impressed with him and couldn't believe what a trooper he was through it all.

Kaden enjoying his lollipop Kaden's first plane ride

Today he learned "If You're Happy and You Know it"...and he's so cute and puts his fingers up to his cheeks when we sing "then your face will surely show it". We are just so in love and can't stop laughing at the things he does. Long day, so making this a bit of a shorter one. But we would love some prayer for tomorrow. This is the medical exam for Kaden...and this means a lot of poking and prodding and needles. They do have to draw blood and because he's over 2, they said they need to take it from his arm (like an adult). This just breaks our hearts that we're going to have to hold him down and restrain him while this is occurring...and we feel like any trust built up may be stripped away by the fact that we are involved in this and letting someone hurt him. Anyway, we know it has to be done...it just sucks!

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