Trip to China
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Wednesday, July 4, 2007 Happy 4th of July! Our little American girl was so cute today dressed in her red, white, and blue. (Thanks Aunt Chrisy) We are getting smiles and laughter from her now. The photos from the first day to the fourth show a transformation from tentative like to growing love and trust from our daughter. She is really showing her personality. She will stand up on her toes and sing at the top of her lungs and dance with her hips, then smile as all heads turn her way. Boy is she training us. I thought that she just wouldn’t eat much in the way of solid food because she cried every time we put her in a highchair. She refused congee, cereal, apple sauce, banana everything. Then, today I ordered room service (shredded duck with peppers and rice…mmmm). As I sat with her on my lap and ate with my chopsticks she started grabbing the chopsticks. I started feeding her rice with the chopsticks and viola! She eats. I felt like such a dopey mom. This is the traditional Chinese way. She comes from a very rural area. Ofcourse they don’t have highchairs and bouncy seats and excersaucers. What was her American Mom thinking. Tonight she gobbled down steamed egg and rice while sitting in Roy’s lap and eating from my chopsticks. Aah so! Today we visited a Daoist Temple. It was beautiful and set in the center of a large park on a lake in Nanchang. Laozi is the Master Diety of Daoism. It is a peaceful philosophical way of life. Natalie would love it as they also have Chenuu, a female deity. She is always saying, “If I were Empress”… I visited a local Farmers’ Market. It’s a good thing Roy stayed home as it would have been a Fear Factor moment for him with the chicken feet, frogs, and eel squirming. Although the vegetables were fabulous and the spices exotic. It is the way most common people shop in China. I went to a porcelain shop where I bought gifts of hand painted porcelain jewelry boxes and a frog bowl for myself. On the way back, we stopped in a museum where the girls recognized me from yesterday. Like I said, Yao Ming in Georgia. But they told my guide they thought I was beautiful and that we were friends. Roy had his daily 90 minute massage. Today he took a group of 8 parents with 3 babies. We had a private room with 8 massage therapists. Only in China. We could get used to this. Everyone marveled that it cost $5.25 US per person. He continues to be the life of the party as he filled in for our guide when she had to take one of the babies to a doctor today. He told the group that the state bird of China is the construction crane and pointed out Kathy Lee Gifford’s clothing factory. Okay, time for sleep. More training for Mommy tomorrow. For a teething 8 month old who has just been plucked from her only home, she is doing so well. I think Mom and Dad are, too.

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