Emily's Medical and Cute Pandas!!

Today Emily had to have her medical at the International Centre for her citizenship. We met our guide in the hotel lobby at 8:30 am and we were bused to the Centre. Her medical examination went very well. She is on target for her weight to height, but is petite compared to North American children (which we expected). She is developing normally with her hand and eye coordination, but is a little delayed in sitting up on her own. She's catching up quickly, with all the one-on-one attention she's receiving from mummy and daddy. She smiled all through her examination, which the doctor noticed and commented how lucky we are. We couldn't agree more - Emily is a blessing to us and boy, do we agree that we're lucky!

I was worried about another hectic, busy day for Emily, but she slept through last night and woke up at 6:30 am. She really is a trouper with these busy days, even though she does not get her long afternoon naps because we are out touring with our group. The last 2 days she has only napped for around 2 1/2 hours each day off on and off but it does not seem to upset her. She wakes up with a smile and is ready to entertain everyone!!

After the medical we came back to the hotel to get ready to go to the Beijing Zoo. We opted to just see the pandas then come back to the hotel to chill out with Emily. Emily slept through the pandas but woke while we were relaxing by the duck and swan pond. She watched them intently, following their movements and giggled away.

Emily has learnt 2 new tricks today - I have been putting her on her tummy to work her arm and leg muscles, and she raised herself to her knees in the crawling position. For her second trick, she held her own bottle tonight to feed herself!!! We are so proud of her!
Emily got through another busy day with flying colours, but mummy and daddy are going to go to bed early tonight as tomorrow we have a shopping excursion in the morning, then in the early evening we will see a Chinese acrobatics show.

We are always excited to see everybody's messages and today we were really pleased to receive a message from Peter's parents and sister-in-law. Peter's parents do not have a computer, but they saw our blog on their friend's computer. So now they have seen pictures of their grand-daughter, how exciting is that!!!! We'd also like to thank Uncle Nigel for his numismatic gift for Emily - a part of her heritage we'll have fun discussing. Love to everyone, 2 more days and we will be home!!! xoxoxoxox