February 17, 2005 Thursday

Today we spent the morning bonding with Aysia. She took a nap for about 2 hours. I did give her a little dimetapp because she has a little runny nose & sounded a little congested. It may be allergies because so far no fever & the drainage is clear. We ate lunch at KFC & hit the local SuperWalmart for diet coke. Its called Coke Light here. Everything is spicy to eat even things that don’t mention spicy. We ordered popcorn chicken & it was spicy. We feed Aysia the mashed potatoes & gravy and she inhaled them. One thing she does well is eat. All the other parents are having a little difficulty getting their babies to eat & take formula but not us. We are afraid we are going to over feed her. In the afternoon she got a short 1 hour nap before we departed for the Tengwang Pavilion. It is one of the 3 famous pavilions in China. It was neat to tour it but its cold. Nothing is heated much & it’s raining so it goes straight to the bone. Our guide does correct us if we don’t have enough clothes on the babies. So we put 2 shirts, 2 pairs of pants, a pair of socks, a hat with matching mittens, a light weight jacket and a heavy coat on Aysia. They said we did a good job until we got to the restaurant. I took off the hat & the heavy coat to eat & was quickly asked to put the coat back on by our guide Sally. You can see a picture of her & Aysia in the photo gallery I believe. I did leave her hat off because her hair was wet where she was sweating under the clothes. Its a little annoying but we’ll manage for a few more days. After dinner we did got o the local department store & buy some more of the crackers that Aysia’s foster mom had sent with her. All the babies like them so we bought 3 bags so we’ll have plenty to share. We ended up going to bed about 9:30 pm. We hope to keep you all updated daily but we are having some problems with our internet connection so please be patient with us. We are getting all your emails & do enjoy reading them every morning when we wake up.

Her first french fry

Our guide Sally