Saturday,
November 10, 2007
Last night, we went to a Cantonese Restaurant. Dad and Ella ate
live fungus for an appetizer. I was hoping they served bean
dip-Gecko Grill style, but no such luck. When we walked into the
front of the restaurant, the food you can order is
swimming/crawling in tanks. Nothing like looking at live water
beetles or silkworm crawling around a tank and thinking that
people actually eat that stuff. I had to hold my breath as we
walk past because I thought the smell was going to do me in. The
food ended up being good-we stuck to vegetables.
Today is a down day. We went to the park and walk around island
and tonight we are going to a group dinner at the Cow and Bridge
Thai Restaurant. Our group is celebrating Ella birthday tonight
so we went and bought a cake for the occasion. We have the most
incredible people in our group. All the families in our group
belong to the same agency and all but one in our group adopted a
little girl with special needs. The families come from all over
the United States and are so much fun. Whenever we are out on
our group activities we are all sharing stories and laughing so
hard that I can not imagine going through this process without
them. Every little girl in our group is absolutely gorgeous-we
have the cutest babies. All of our girls have come from the
Guangdong providence so we will all be here in Guangzhou for the
same amount of time. Great group of people-lifetime friends
through this experience.
Onto an Ella update: The honeymoon is sort of over. Ella has
officially turned into our kid! She has figured out how to push
our buttons. Nothing big-tiny tantrums at bedtime, gets mad if
we won’t let her drink our Sprite and when she is done walking
she will just sit down until one of us picks her up-even if we
have a stand off with her she won’t budge until we cave in and
pick her up. Ella has her dad so wrapped around her finger that
I have to send him out of the room at night to get her to bed
because he thinks everything she does is funny and cute-no
discipline. Yesterday at breakfast Ella was begging for some
more bacon and I told Bart that Ella could not have any more
bacon. I went to get some more oj and came back to Bart and Ella
giggling…Bart gave her bacon. Ella knows her dad will give her
anything so at times he is the favorite.
Madison-Good Luck with your voice competition.
Bridger/Hunter-Good Luck with you football tournament. Dad and
Mom are missing you guys and can’t wait to come home. Only one
more week. Grandma said you guys are doing awesome!
K/Becky-If you were assigned China, would you be stationed here
in Guangzhou? Bart and I are having a small discussion about
what part of China you would be stationed in.
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Singing Karaoke With A Flashlight
Singing In Mandarin
Group Dinner Celebrating Ella's B-Day
Blowing Out Candles
Yummy B-Day Cake |
