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Lia Pushing Toy


AJ Feeding Lia

Here are some pictures of our adoption group. Poor Lia was crying.

Today she had to get her Medical visit. It was kindof dramatic for Lia. It consisted of 3 rooms. Each room did various checkups. She cried in all 3. Currently she weighs around 18 pounds and 27 inches long.







Video of medical waiting area with our group

Today, we went to a Rural Village just outside of city. The standard of living here is a little better because they are close to the city. Most of farmers have moved from working the fields to jobs in the city. However, their were a few still farming rice. Jianxi is the central place for most of rice harvested for China.


Pigs

Selling Fresh Pig


Christian Church


Video - The village takes it's water from these ponds in area. They also wash their clothes in this water. I saw a dead pig in the water they were using.


Rice Field


Video of People working Rice Fields


Washing Clothes in River



Grocery Store




This was interesting. This was picture of clinic. If kids were sick, they didn't have medicine in like a pill format. Instead, they used an ivy and inserted the drugs that way.

Well, Carmen left today to head back to Texas. I will be here another week and meet up with Carmen later in Texas. So it means I'm on my own with Lia. So far things are good. She is more comfortable with me now. I'm so glad she is a great sleeper. Today she was very mobile and getting into everything. I had to start putting stuff higher up.

We visited a park today. It was really cool in that there were people throughout the park doing Tai Chi. It looks like a great hang out for older people.

Picture of people doing Tai Chi


Video


I've noticed everywhere I've been, someone is playing cards or board game


This was neat. This guy was doing caligraphy on the ground with big brush with water.


I've noticed rock type is used in several different places. It's a rock gathered from a lake and used in gardens for display. This was also at Forbidden City.


Playing Badmitton in park




To promote health, the govt put exercise equipment in the park. It was cool seeing older people exercise on it.


People practing Chinese Yo Yo

Well, last night we didn't get much sleep. Lia is teething. Her two front teeth are coming in. She woke up with a rash on her face. This is from her rubbing her face constantly because of the pain from teething.

Luckily, it is on the Agenda today to head to Walmart and get some supplies. We will get some teething rings and hopefully this will help.

Anyway, below are some cute pictures of her in a dress and pictures from walmart





After finally getting her the right formula (same one orphanage uses), she drank from a bottle. She passed out right afterwards.


Walmart





Bamboo Roots

While in Nanchang, I took some pictures of local area.

By the way, aggresive driving is a way of life here. People are constantly beeping their horns and cutting each other off. It's really really crazy. However, no one gets mad like in the United States. They just accept it's way of life. And they only beep horns to warn people they are driving by.

Card game on sidewalk




Man drying his clothes on power line


A typical store consisted of just one room barely enough for a few people


Local Dentist


Video


Video while in Cab

Last night Lia got up once around 12:30am for only 10 minutes and then went to sleep. So she slept from 8:30 - 7:30. She was really exhausted.



Today we went around to the different government offices to finalize the adoption process. While during the process, we got our first smile from her.

Her first smile

We arrive in Nanchang, Jianxi


Our Guide Lisa


Our first moments with her (after she calmed down)




Doing some paperwork for tomorrow. Once we finalize paperwork tomorrow, she will officially be ours. This is her footprint.


We finally got her to sleep after 2 hours. She was so tired and fighting to stay awake. Her profile said she normally sleeps through the night from 8 - 6. She also takes a nap during the day. She is a great sleeper!!!


The experience:
It was on the schedule to receive Lia at 4. Andrew for very anxious for that moment to arrive. At 4 no one shows up and we get a call from Lisa that there was an accident on the highway and the entire road is blocked. They said she maybe more cranky now because it was a 2 hour ride from the orphanage and add another hour because of accident.

The doorbell finally rings at 5. We open the door and director of orphanage, his driver, Lisa our guide and of course Lia are there. They handoff the baby immediately to Carmen. She cried for first 10 minutes but then calmed down after giving her a teething biscuit. For some reason, it helped calm her down. She wouldn't let go of it.

She would intermittenly cry but overall she did much better than we expected. I thought she would cry for hours. But she is a very calm baby. And her cry is not loud at all. And she loves to be held. She would cry anytime we exchanged her between Carmen and I. But then she would calm down after a few seconds. She is doing really well.