A More Relaxed Day!

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Emily woke up very happy. I actually got in the bathtub with her. She whimpered for about 2 secs, but was distracted by the light-up rubber ducky we had brought and some stacking cups that we put into the bathtub too. She watched intently as I poured water onto her legs and arms. She kept turning to look at me, then back to the toys. I washed her hair and still no tears, and continued to wash her. Peter took her out of the bathtub and dried her. We all dressed and went down for breakfast. Emily had 3/4 of her bottle, about 8 spoons of baby cereal, steamed egg (which she loves) and a tiny piece of bread. She seems to love her food!! Our breakfast was buffet style: bacon, steamed eggs, green Chinese veg, toast and fresh fruit. Very good breakfast with many other chinese options of food.
We came upstairs and prepared a diaper bag ready for our trip to a huge Walmart with our group. We were bused to the Walmart with our Facilitator Yulin and our lovely guide Mary. We looked for some smaller clothes for Emily but there wasn't much choice. We bought a 3 month old Chinese style top and bottoms. I do not have very many small clothes with me, but sometime this week we will buy clothes for her at other stores. We came back to the hotel around 12. Emily had 1/2 a bottle and was happy to hang out on the King size bed babbling and playing. We skyped our friends Mike and Jeannie this morning and they were just over the moon to see Emily, and could not believe how comfortable she felt with us. Emily smiled and babbled with them, amazing!!! So glad we were able to show Emily to Mike and Jeannie!!! Hopefully we can connect with Grandma tonight and hopefully my sister in England very soon.
Emily was getting tired and a little cranky, so time for a nap. She fell asleep at around 1:15 pm. Peter is reading all about Nanchang and I am catching up with the blog, ironing, and writing my journal. So happy, happy, happy!!!!!!!
This afternoon at 4 pm we had to go downd to floor 1 to fill out more paperwork - this time for Emily's visa to enter Canada. Emily slept for 2 1/2 hours this afternoon and woke up in time to go downstairs for yet more paper work. Peter filled out the paperwork and Emily and I hung out together with other mums. At 5:30 pm all our group met down in the Chinese restaurant to have dinner with Yulin. It was Yulin's (our facilitator's)last evening in Nanchang. We will see her again when we go back to Beijing on Saturday. She has been amazing and really cares about these children - and what a wonderful job she has, putting forever families together!
After dinner Emily was getting very tired, so we bathed her, which she was ok about - but no smiles in the bathtub yet. She is just mesmerized by it all!! Diaper changes are not happy times for Emily. I try to distract her by putting toys in her hands and talking to her, but oh boy she does not like it one bit!!! Sorry Emily, but diaper changes are a necessity! I am sure it will get better. Apparently all the other parents said the same thing abut their babies: as soon as you lay them down they scream! I asked Yulin if they wore diapers in the orpahange, as we have read that they put these young babies on the potty!!! She said in a Foster home they would not wear diapers, but have the split pants, but she thinks in the orphanage they probably did wear diapers?? We can see that these babies were very well cared for, which makes us happy. In fact we have forgotten to mention that we received a photo album which contains pictures of Emily aat 8 days old!! Also a picture of Emily with the director of the orphanage, and pictures of the outside of her orphanage. Such a treasure to have for Emily.
We are finally legal parents to Emily, all the important paperwork has been done in Nanchang. More paper work in Beijing to come.
Emily went down to sleep at 7:45 pm. It took a little longer to get her down, maybe 1/2 an hour. She woke up at 10 pm screaming and straining. Poor Emily had been constipated and has not had a B/M until that moment. When I laid her down, well, all let loose in the deriere area, as well as big tears. I had given her a little bit of prune puree with her cereal, and I guess it was finally working. It seems all the other babies were are also constipated. I am so glad she has had a B/M. It took me an hour to get her down again but she slept until 7 am. Another lovely day with our daughter. She is very clingy and is happy to be with us, as long as we are holding her. We are making the most of this precious time with her.