Kai.... after the bath.....

Gave Kai a bath this morning. See previous post for pics. Ummmmmmmm, this is her after lunch,lol!

Kai

Our sweet little Kai Kai!

Mayflower Best Western, Wuhan

This is the Hotel we stayed at in Wuhan. It was really nice. The last pic is of the hotel lobby. I wish I would have taken a picture of the outside of the hotel:(

Locksmith Kai

Last week O locked the bathroom door on accident. V used a credit card to unlock it. I guess Kai must of have been watching, because I just looked into the hallway from our bedroom and saw Kai with an old gift card sticking it in the crack of the closed bathroom door! She is SOOOOOO smart!

In other news, we took Kai to the Dr for a check up. The Dr we use only takes new patients that are adopted from China. She said Kai was the largest Chinese baby she has ever seen! Toooooo funny. she will probably be taller than her mama by the time she is 12!

the girls and teething

Kai and Olivia love playing together now. It took a few months for them to both really get to know each other and enjoy each other,lol!

Kai is teething, YUK! I have never seen teeth come in like this. 2 of hers have had bloody looking blisters just before the teeth break through! Poor baby! She is such a trooper!

Silly Kai and ICE

We went to see ICE at the Gaylord Hotel over the holidays with some GREAT friends of ours. We has a wonderful time! ICE is an indoor ice sculpture show ( duhh we do live in Tx where temps rarely reach freezing for any length of time,lol). It was really neat and the people who carve all of the sculptures are from Harbin China. VERY COOL!

16 months old today

Today Kai turns 16 months old. It is really hard to think that 16 months ago tomorrow she was found at the gate of the orphanage. I think it is harder to think about now than it was when we visited the orphanage and saw the location she was left. Something about having time to get to know her personality and fall even further in love with her makes it seem so tragic for her birth family and the choice they had to make. What a blessing she has been to our family. The pics above were two of three referral pics we received on Aug the 4th. She was 10 months old in the picture. Later today I am going to take a close up so we can all see how much she has changed. I love this sweet girl. Thank you God for bringing us down this road.

The Church In China

While we were in Wuhan we went to church. It was a school with a court yard. It was unique in the fact that there was not a pastor at this church but it was a feed from a near by church. Every room in the school was full with a tv for the congregation to watch. We arrived a little late and all the rooms were full but the court yard. The people there were soooooo friendly. They brought us out hymnals ( in Chinese) and Bibles ( also in Chinese). We just pretended to follow along,lol! I had no idea where they were in the Bible or the hymnal. All of the chairs were full so we sat on a little bench. Several of the older women in the congregation did not like the fact that A. we were sitting on the benches with the babies, and B. we were in the sun with the babies. We spent the next hour being moved from spot to spot in chairs so we would not be in the sun! It was very sweet and very funny! Kai was sleeping in her carrier when we first arrived and one of the older women leaned in to get a peek, she kissed her on the cheek and then whacked her on the cheek! This is a very normal thing for the Chinese! They are always whacking the babies on the cheeks.Its a way of showing affection. We really had a wonderful time and it was so moving to see the Chinese worship.

Lost Pics of China

We had several pics that did not get transferred from the laptop we took to China and our home computer. We just realised they were missing a week or so ago. So here are a few extra random pics from our trip!The first is Kai setting in the window of our hotel in Wuhan. The second is one of my favorites,and the third is of the three of us after dinner in Wuhan.

Cowgirl Kai

Kai has some new pink cowgirl boots! She LOVES em! She is a bit of a shoe hound. She will bring me a pair of shoes and say shhhhhhh shhhhhh, that means " I really think these shoes are cute, please put them on my Yedi like feet so I may admire them!"

Flower Girl

Olivia was a flower girl in a wedding this weekend. I think it was the most beautiful wedding I have ever been to. It was amazing! Here are a few pics.

Kai's Shower

Liv was the photographer at Kai's shower last week. Notice the lovely picture of me,lol! We had a great time and Kai made out like a bandit! I love all of my home school girls who worked so hard to organize such a great shower!

On a totally different note, Liv was playing in the new stroller box last night and was standing in it ( it is tall and narrow). She tipped it over and feel backwards onto the tile. She had a nasty knot on her head but I really thought she was fine. This morning she woke up and immediately started vomiting. We took her to the ER and after a CAT scan they said she looked fine. Not sure why she was throwing up. Who knows. She is still a little weak, but is doing much better.VERY scary for the mama!

Princess Kai

Princess Kai had a short photo shoot in the back yard today! She is wearing a dress a very sweet friend made for her. Isn't she BEAUTIFUL!

Shannon

Fall .......

A few pics of the girls. They were taken a week or so after we returned home. Olivia and Kai are really starting to play together.

Shennong to 3 Gorges Dam

From Shennong Stream we went on to the Three Gores Dam. It is the largest dam in the world. It was huge! I actually liked the little town around the dam more than the dam itself.

Back To The Cruise

So, when I last posted about the cruise we were going from Chongqing to Fengdu, after that we cruised on down the Yangtze to a place called Shennong Stream. You take a large ferry to a small stream where you board small boats and are taken through some beautiful country. You also see the hanging coffins. They are these caves in the side of the cliff where coffins were found. They are like 2000 years old and they have no idea how the managed to get the bodies into the caves. This part of the trip was a lot of fun.