We are leaving in 2 days!! We depart 10am Friday morning (Thursday night US time) arrive in Pgh. 10:27 pm - Friday night from Newark. We do have a 3 hour layover in Newark and a 2.5 hour layover in Beijing both making it a very long trip.
We have the US Consulate appointment and swearing in today and should receive HaiYang's visa today as well.
We are all anxious to get home, the girls miss the house, the dogs, their family & friends, and I think they are even missing school. We did a pretty good job of keeping up with the homework so I am hoping they will not be too far behind.
HaiYang is doing well, we got through yesterday with only 2 major tantrums. Unfortunately bed time is getting worse and worse with her screaming for what seems like forever, she does not want to go to bed!!!!! I have no plan for this when we are at home either, bed time has always been little problem for us as it was.
She does really like the girls although she is so rough with them, and she needs to learn not to hit when she wants their attention or doesn't want them to do something. I can not believe Tessie hasn't hit her back yet, maybe that is just what she needs ;-).
We are happy that she seems to be eating less. The 1st week she would eat and eat and eat, until we would have to get the food completely out of sight. She is still eating alot but seems to stop on her own, we still can't linger too long or she will nibble more but at least she isn't stuffing herself quite so much. She does enjoy the restaurants and the attention she gets from the waitresses, they are all so great with the kids/babies, I think HaiYang really likes having someone understand what she is saying. When they translate for us it is usually things like, "that is pretty", "I am hungry", "look at that", I still get a kick out of her talking, it seems like she is talking so fast. I am guessing her speech isn't terribly effected by her cleft, anyone that speaks mandarin seems to know what she is saying. She is repeating a few words but other than our names, yummy, hi, bye and thank you she doesn't use them on her own. She is starting to understand some of what we say to her, if i really want her to do something I try to keep it to a one or two work command, "sit down", "come", "wash hands", "no" of course we use that alot!!!!! Dave is still using the 10 or so words/phrases he learned too, I sort of gave up on that.
She loves looking at all the pictures we have taken, I'll open them on the laptop and she'll look at them for a long time, her and Lucie spent a good amount of time doing that last night. She really likes the pictures from New Hope and called her one Nanny, "mama", she also likes the few I took at the orphanage and gets really excited at one picture of a little boy, she names everyone too. She'll yell for Tessie (teshee) or Lucie (Looshee) when we get to their pictures and sometimes will not stop until they come to see their picture. She also likes her picture being taken (if she is in the mood) she has figured out we laugh at silly faces so we are getting alot of those, very cute. Sorry I am not posting any of them but they keep bouncing back "undelieverable" not sure what the problem is, maybe once we get home I can post a few.
Ok miss you all, can't wait to get home. We'll call or e-mail if our flight changes.
Lots of Love
Kristie
