More from Day 4

As we settle into bed and you just wake up back home lets give some more details.  In the Civil Affairs office Laine was the Queen.  She just sat with her five, count-em FIVE, layers of clothes on and just soaked everything in.  While kids were crying all around her she sat and watched.  The only time she started to cry was when we tried to take off her hat.  So we quickly put it back on and moved on to some cheerio bits.  Two families ended up waiting until 4pm to get their children.  They were only 2 hours away but the for or I believe smog, made them take the long way around a lake and the families here just had to wait a little longer. 

 

For Laine, the peaceful beginning was the calm before the storm!  We got back to the room and she started to fuss right away.  We were taking off her pillows!, slowly.  The social workers say keep her clothes for the future to show what she came in and don't wash them yet so she has that smell from her home up to now.  We brought some formula from home, knowing she probably wouldn't like it because it was unfamiliar, but I made up my first bottle and as soon as I walked up with it Laine's eyes fixed on it like an eagle hunting a mouse on the ground! She started drinking and never looked back, so much for familiarity!  Our adoption agency sent questionnaires to the orphanage a short time ago asking basic questions about what she eats and when sleeps and stuff like that.  But it was still being translated by our guides so we just punted and it worked.  But as soon as the bottle was gone the tears and cries began.  She went on for over an hour.  We switched out some more clothes and the diaper, but to no avail.  She loves to bounce so that became the soothing method on Christina's lap.  Shortly there after the guides called with the formula info and they ran out and bought boxes for each kid!  We just had to pay them and go to their room to get it, very nice!  Christina tried several times and several ways to get Lainey to go to sleep but she wanted to stay awake and not miss anything I guess. 

 

 We got another bottle in her and found out her nap time had already passed so we just started playing with toys and taking some videos.  I've tried to post them, but all the video feeds I know of are blocked here so I can't get them out to you.  Laine loves to blow bubbles with her saliva and make buzzing noises.  She copied Christina pretty well, a good development sign.  She can not sit up on her own, which is behind for her age of 14 months.  She is also wearing six month clothes pretty well.  We'll weigh her in the morning.  She also likes to play with my whiskers and the little parts of some fisher price keys.  So she seems pretty healthy right now, just behind developmentally which is expected for her time in an orphanage.

 

We were given a nice picture book of who her caregivers were.  Plus they brought the bag we sent her for her birthday with the clothes and gifts too.  The real key is they also returned the two disposable cameras we sent.  So we can get about another 50 pictures developed from her surroundings which will be great to explain later where she came from.

In the evening we did some paperwork and had Italian for dinner.  A nice waitress gave Lainey a flashing Santa face to clip to her clothes, super nice gesture.  We have to be up at 6 we are guessing to get ready and to now get Laine ready too, so I'm going to call it quits since my eyes are drooping to the mouse pad right now!  Thanks for all the well wishes! Here are some more pics too, love the smog and the guy on the bike struggling, had white flour all over him!