Friday,
December 19, 2008
Today we experienced many “firsts”.
Lauren:
• Had her first poopie diaper (two today!!!)
• Finally drank water; which she had previously refused to do.
• Sat on a blanket on the floor and entertained herself with her
toys.
• Held her hands up to Mommy when she wanted to be picked up.
• Grabbed Daddy’s finger and held on tight. The past couple of
days she would not let us touch her hands at all.
• Had her first “real” bath in the tub and it went pretty well.
Again, thank God for those stacking cups, they kept her busy so
the tears didn’t come.
So over all it was another step in bonding with our daughter and
in her accepting us.
Our little monkey is a pro at fake crying…. the kind where she
sounds really sad but we can see her kind of scrunch up her face
and look out of the corner of her eyes to see if we are still
paying attention or not. And she’s got a whole bunch of teeth,
about 12 of them. I nicknamed her “Stitch” as in the alien from
“Lilo and Stitch” the Disney movie because when she scrunches
her face up with those little sharp teeth & big eyes of hers she
looks just like him. It’s really quite funny.
Some of you have asked about her size. For the most part she’s
been wearing size 12 months. Some of the items are a bit baggy
on her still, as she is a skinny little thing. Her legs are
pretty long. We don’t have an official current weight on her
yet, as her medical exam won’t occur until the 29th. We think
she weighs about 20 lbs, though our backs are showing signs of
her weighing closer to 100 lbs. We are so sore at the end of the
day, I can only hope that carrying her around helps firm up my
arms! So far she has not even attempted to walk, much less
crawl. The other babies in our group, who are younger, are
already crawling around, but Lauren will have none of it. She
wants to be carried everywhere and wants to be cheek to cheek.
So today we tried sitting a couple feet away from her to see if
we could get her to crawl to us and it was not a success. She
kind of did some sort of rolling sideways thing until she was
close. I will say that this child is pretty darn talented. As
noted above she does not want to exhaust herself with crawling.
When she was sitting on my lap she wanted some of her stacking
cups. I wouldn’t hand them to her. trying to get her to crawl to
them. Instead she stretched out her body as much as possible,
then maneuvered her foot to flip the cups over & then stuck her
foot into the cup, then bringing it up to her chest where she
plucked the cups off with her hands. She did this with 3 cups.
I’m amazed! I think it beats Molly Ringwald being able to put on
her lipstick from her cleavage any day!
As noted yesterday, we went into the main shopping area of
Nanning today to visit Wal-Mart. It was quite the experience.
The trees were draped with red paper lanterns, which was just
beautiful. There were bikes everywhere, manual& electric. There
were huge lots on the main street to park – there had to be
thousand per lot just packed in there. People zoom in and out of
traffic; it really was interesting to watch. Some people had
huge packages tied to their bikes, some with children just
sitting there – no harness, no helmet. Trying to cross the road
is like being in the video game “Frogger”…start to walk, back up
so you don’t get hit, shift left, short run, stop before getting
hit, etc…The stores were packed with people, more people then
I’ve ever seen anywhere. According to XiXi, our facilitator,
there are more than 5 million people in Nanning. I think I saw 3
million of them today.The volume of voices in the stores was
deafening…just a constant “buzzing” of all the people talking.
It was mid-day on a Friday and yet every store was packed like
King of Prussia Plaza at Christmas (x’s 100). I found the
fashions to be very fascinating, lots of women in boots. High
heeled, funky bling-bling on them, sassy boots. Worn with
everything in every color. We went into a department store that
literally must have had 5000 boot options for sale. I’ve never
seen anything like it. We went to McDonald’s for lunch but Mike
and I weren’t brave enough to try any meat items so we had fries
and soda. The fries tasted just like home! I stopped in the
bathroom and got to see my worst fear – the squatty potty – OMG,
I couldn’t do it, but had to get a picture, which I am sharing
with you. LUCKY YOU, LOL! |
Riding the escalator in Wal-Mart
(yes, the carts go up with you too!)
Anyone want us to bring home some freeze dried chickens (yes
with heads!)
My worst fear - the dreaded "squatty potty".
Is that Brad & Angelina? Nope, just Pat & Mike making quite the
spectacle of themselves.
It's amazing that children just hang out on motor bikes here, no
helmets, no straps. Scary!
Just perfect!
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