Still a few hours to go but so far it appears we are going to survive another day. HaiYang's TB was negative as expected, thank goodness. One of the other families had a scare, but after the x-ray their son was also negative so we are all cleared to go, just waiting on visas and the final swearing in.
We tried to do a little shopping at the Pearl Market, uhhh I don't think Christmas shopping will be very easy this year. HaiYang took several fits and rolled in God knows what on the floor of the shops - yuck!! I saw a few things I would have liked to buy for gifts, sorry but just couldn't do it, we had to leave. We went back to Shamian Island for lunch at Lucy's, they serve their version on American food, it was fine. We did a little shopping for HaiYang there and after eating she was in a much better mood.
It is very warm here, if I calculated correctly it was probably in the low 90's today and a bit humid. When we returned to the hotel we decided to see what HaiYang thought of the pool - SHE LOVED IT!! She wasn't sure for about the 1st two minutes then just loved it! She was jumping in and giggling. Every time she jumped she would curl into a ball after I grabbed her, so funny. One of the other little girls had goggles so HaiYang used her sunglasses for goggles, very cute. As we expected when we had enough she had not, oh my did she have a fit!!!! She was so mad she was smacking the floor and screaming!!! In case I haven't mentioned it a few times - she really has a temper!!! WOW!!! I am trying to tune it out and give as little reaction as possible, hoping she outgrows it.
She really likes water, she just took another marathon bath, I think she washed her hair about 6 times and her legs about 10 times, she is really cute doing it too. After her bath she combs and combs her hair and then calls me to dry it, she likes the hair dryer. She is always pretty pleasant in the evening, until bed time anyway.
She is still calling me Ayi but has also started to call me Mooomeeeee although she has also called Maryann Mommy. It's fine I am sure she just thinks I am another nanny passing through. She mostly calls Dave BaBa, the chinese word for Daddy, he just eats it up. She really loves Dave, which is a good thing because he has way more patients than I do.
Sorry I haven't posted any pictures, I have tried many times but I can't get them to go through, not sure what the problem is. I'll try again this evening.
Hope all is well at home, we miss you all!!
Hugs,
Kristie, Dave, Lucie, Tessie & HaiYang
-umm did I say we survived another day.... Tessie and HaiYang are really going at it at the moment - pray for me!! haha.
