3.31.09 Baby group pictures and ACS appointment

We got up a little later this morning since our group pictures at the red couch are not until 11:00 am. We had breakfast around 8:00 am and we went back to the hotel room right after to give Maelyne a bath. At first she hated it as usual but she started to like it when both the legs were submerged in the warm water and she started playing with the duckie duck. She also took a nap before we went down to the meeting place on the second floor. The babies were dressed up with Chinese dress or outfit. They were all so cute with their outfits. This is the first time Maelyne had on a Chinese outfit and it shows that she is really a Chinese girl. So anyway, all the babies sat on the red couch for the group photo. Maelyne was very cooperative she did not give the photographers (the parents) a hard time. After the baby group pictures, all the families including the babies took a group photo as well. We separated ways. Maelyne changed her outfit and we headed down to the Lucy's (again) for lunch. Maelyne had her #2 business so we went back to the hotel to get her cleaned up. There was plenty of time before the group farewell dinner at 5:30 pm. Henry stayed with Maelyne in the room because she napped again, so I went out shopping by myself. I bought a few things for Maelyne of course and few souvenirs.
ACS cleared all of our application forms for the babies' visa. We did not need to go physically to the American Consulate because Elsie and David (our guides) took care of the appointment. There was only one minor issue for one family but it was corrected right away. We should get Maelyne's visa tomorrow afternoon. Yes...

Our farewell dinner was at a Cantonese restaurant just across from our hotel. It is the restaurant where we experienced a bad service 2 nights ago. Our guides Elsie and David made a reservation at the restaurant. We had a private room just for the CHI families. There were already three dishes on the table as soon as we arrived there and more dishes came after that. The food choosen for us were delicious. There was no doubt that the service was better this time.

We walked back to the hotel and it was just in time for Maelyne's bed time. She fell asleep shortly after we changed her in her pajamas. We are very thankful that Maelyne is bonding very well with us. It's only been 8 days since we received her and there has been a lot of improvement with her. She talks to us a lot and she makes us laugh. She has been a very good girl.

Gotta check out these cute pictures...

Do you recognize Maelyne?

Maelyne's bestfriend...

Family group pictures...

Farewell dinner...

3.30.09 Maelyne gets her medical examination...

Auntie Florence, thank you for the welcome party you are planning for us on April 4th. Can't wait to meet you all... your Chinay niece, Maelyne.

Maelyne has been sleeping well the last few nights. Neither Henry or I have to get up in the middle of the night to do something for her (knock on wood). She has been a very good sleeper, taking at least one nap (up to 2 hours) a day, which we are happy about. She woke up this morning at 6:30 with a smile on her face. How could you not fall in love and get crazy over this little girl? Just melt our hearts away. Usual breakfast at the Coffee Shop. Maelyne has been eating more. I hope she won't become a very chubby kid otherwise it will be a little more challenge to carry her around. We just had enough time to do our morning routine before our 9:00 meeting with the rest of the families. The medical office is a 15 minute walk from the hotel. The weather was on the high 60s so it was nice even without sunshine. We went into a room dedicated to adopted children for the examination. We filled out a form before the doctors can see the babies. There were three examinations done - ENT, Physical exam, and Height/Weight/Temp. We started with the physical with everything normal, then we went to see the ENT doctor, all results on every tests she did on Maelyne are all what's expected, The last room we went in is to get her temperature, weight, and height. She now weighs 8 kg, 71 cm with temperature being normal. I have not figured out the conversions to lbs and inches so you guys can do the math. She cried during this time but she was fine after all the exams were completed.
There was plenty of time to shop again so we went to this one store to buy a suitcase and some chinese outfits for Maelyne (different sizes). The salesguy was very helpful and even calling us "my friend" coz he can see I was buying a lot. After he added up the prices, i started to apply my bargaining skills. In the end when we setlled on the final price, he won't call me "my friend" anymore because I was too hard on bargaining, ha, ha. At this time, Maelyne had fallen asleep so we headed back to the hotel. She napped for about an hour and a half. We had lunch again at the Lucy's restaurant. It looks like we will be eating a lot in this restaurant because we seem to like a lot of their menus and there's baby menus, too.
At 2:00 pm, we had a sightseeing at the Six Banyan Temple where Buhdists go and worship there. We walked around to see three giant Buhda's in one temple and more in other temples. We can smell the burning incense everywhere. We saw a few monks and some of us even took pictures with them. Our bus driver took us to the Liwan Plaza or the so called Pearl Market. OMG, there were store after store in multiple levels of pearls and jades. It was overwhelming. We did not know where to begin. Anyway, we bought few pearls to give for Maelyne when she's bigger and some souvenirs. We are now out of Chinese money (they do accept credit cards though but I was not comfortable using it there) so we just window shopped. It was time to go back to the hotel. There was an optional river cruise (with fee) at 6:00 but we passed on this cruise because I usually get sea sick. We instead brought Maelyne down to the Swan Room (play room) and we just let her play with all the Mattel toys that are present in the room. We ordered take out from Lucy's (i told you this is our favorite restaurant) and we just ate in our hotel room. We were too tired to sit down and eat in the restaurant.

Photos, and more photos...

Room # 1 - Physical exam

Room #2 - ENT

Room #3 - Height, Weight & Temp ( did not like

any of the tests here)

At the Six Banyan Temple

The Pearl Market

At the Swan Room

3.29.09 Maelyne takes visa photo...

It was still raining last night with some lightning and thunder. The good news is the rain stopped before we all walked to the photo shop to have the babies photos for their visas. Maelyne slept well last night and she woke up at 6:30 am. It was our first breakfast at the River Garden Coffee Shop (included with the room) which is overlooking the Pearl River (this is where we will have our breakfast for the next 5 days). The buffet is huge and it is very busy. There are plenty of food assortments to choose from. Food was delicious! It was still early for our appointment at 10:30 so we just walked around the hotel lobby and wowed ourselves with a lot of asian art displays. We also took some pictures so we have a few to share. The picture taking for the visa did not take long so the families went separate ways unless interested in going to a Christian Church with Elsie. She said it will take about 1.5 hours. We have to pass on this service because we were meeting Maricel at 12:30 pm but there was some time to do some shopping. We bought more shoes for Maelyne, some arts and jewelries and other souvenirs. Now, I am really getting good at bargaining. We went back to the hotel room to rest for a while before meeting Maricel down at the second floor lobby. Our meeting time has changed to 1:00 pm instead. Maricel is the one who helped us book our 2 international and one domestic flights. She works for Lotus Travel Agency and her office happened to be based in Guangzhou so I made an arrangement to meet with her when we get to the city. We headed down to the Lucy's restaurant (same place where we had our first lunch in the city). Maelyne enjoyed her meal with chicken congee and mashed potatoes. We are happy that there was no rain, only some clouds and the temperature was very comfortable. We took advantage of the rain free afternoon to walk around and did some more shopping. The shoes are very cheap here. I have already bought Maelyne 11 pairs of shoes with different sizes and I am not done yet. There's so much to buy here but of course space is limited in our suitcases and money is already budgeted unless someone will wire us some cash, kidding.

We decided we have dinner at a Chinese restaurant. I felt like we are back in Nanchang or Beijing again where the servers barely spoke English. The service was slow we thought and Maelyne was becoming fussy and we are getting hungry, it was already around 7:30 at that time. The waitress did not even take our fried rice order so we just asked for some white rice instead. The food was not too bad but they could have done a better service. I am not recommending this restaurant to anyone. Sorry. Maelyne got some attention from the waitresses though. It was time for Maricel to say goodbye so she took a taxi to head home.

Maelyne took a bath with me since there is not baby bath tub provided in the room. She still hates the water but she was all fine after the short bath and now sleeping comfortably.

Here's some photos... enjoy...

She looks so cute...

Maelyne's first airplane ride...

At the White Swan Hotel...

Maelyne trying to walk...


With new friend Maricel...


Not enough yet, she'll have more....

3.28.09 Off to Guangzhou

Today we left Nanchang to Guangzhou where adopting families come through for the US Consulate. We were ready (Maelyne included) at 6:00 am and headed to the Atrium Cafe for breakfast right when they opened at 6:30 am. The bellboys are picking up luggages at 7:00 in our rooms so Henry ate quickly in order not to miss the pick up. Maelyne and I followed shortly to get her changed. The weather is in the low 60's and still having rain showers. We boarded the bus to the airport at 8:00 am, got there after 30 minutes, checked in and proceeded to gate 6 after passing through the security. We took off at exactly 10:00 am. The flight was only 1 hour, 10 mins. This is Maelyne's first airplane ride and she did great. She fell asleep just before we landed and she did not have any problems.
We arrived at the White Swan Hotel after a 45 minute drive from the airport. Our CHI coordinator Elsie lives in Guangzhou and she's happy to be back to her hoemtown. Our local guide is David Kong. Weather is hot and humid. The White Swan Hotel is set on the edge of Shamian Island. Originally a beach on the Pearl River facing the White Goose Pool. Shamian was separated from the mainland in the Qing Dynasty and turned into an island which overlooks the River on one side and has the city at its back on the other. We were checked in at about 1:00 pm. The rooms were being cleaned upon our arrival so we had to wait for a while. Our room is #1128 with the city view and a little bit of river view. The hotel is so gorgeous inside with very beautiful Asian decorations. There is a pagoda with waterfalls on the second floor , which is very attractive. We haven't had a chance to take pictures yet because we had to settle in, do some paperworks, confirm our returning flights and we must have brought with us the rain and thunder from Nanchang because it started raining hard in the afternoon . The winds were strong, too. The good news is we had finished our lunch at Lucy's, an American restaurant and had done some shopping nearby before downpour.
Henry ordered take out and we just ate inside our hotel room. Really don't want to take Maelyne out in the rain because we're afraid she might get sick. Just protecting our little sweetheart you know. :)
Maelyne and dad are now sleeping in separate beds. We got a room with 2 twin size beds (bummer) and a crib but Maelyne settled on the other bed so I will be sleeping with her tonight.
It is now 15 past midnight so nite, nite...

3.27.09 Our last day in Nanchang...

Maelyne woke up at 5:00 am this morning. We tried to put her back to sleep but she won't even after giving her a bottle of milk. She watched a movie for the first time (Ice Age) with her daddy but only for a short period of time. Don't think she was very interested. She preferred to sit in her stroller and talk to us and play. We worked on her crawling skills as well. She's improving a little. We had our breakfast at 7:30 am at the Atrium Cafe. She had some flavored congee, rice cereal with hot milk and pancakes. She loved the pudding and had a bottle of orange juice. We also gave her apple juice while another adoptive family came talking to us and she just fell asleep in the high chair with the bottle still in her mouth. Thought that was funny and cute!

We planned on going shopping this morning but it has been raining since the night before. There were also some thunder. We were scheduled to fill out some visa forms at 3:00 pm today but instead we were told to meet at 11:00 am because other families wanted to go out and shop as well, so our guides set up a trip to the mall in the afternoon at 3:30 pm. Maelyne napped at 10:00 am and still sleeping when it was time to meet Elsie and Mary down on the second floor, so I stayed with her in the room and Henry went by himself to fill out some forms. These forms will be needed at the ACS in Guangzhou. We are preparing ahead of time.

It was 12:30 when Henry came back and that's when Maelyne woke up wanting her dad to carry her.

Maelyne got her Chinese passport today. Yeayyy.... Mary and Elsie went to pick them up from the Civil Affairs Office. We headed to the Sampan Seafood Restaurant for lunch. The Connel family just ordered from the menu when we arrived so they invited us to join them on their table.

Six families went off shopping at the porcelain store and the one family decided to be dropped off at Walmart. It was still raining but not hard. Remember Nanchang is famous of producing porcelain, so some families including us wanted to get something from Maelyne's province for her when she grows up. We got her a tea set and a vase and some porcelain bracelets. We only bought the little ones due to luggage weight limit as we are flying to Guangzhou tomorrow.

We went back to the hotel and ordered our favorite fried rice and the Nabeyaki Udon Noodles delivered to our room and the three of us shared the food. We were able to put Maelyne to sleep around 8:00 pm so we got our suitcases packed without interruptions.

We realized tonight is our last night in Nanchang. I became emotional for Maelyne because tomorrow she is leaving her province and her birthparents behind (at least we will still be inside China for the next 7 days).

We will be leaving the hotel at 8:00 tomorrow for our 10:00 am flight. See you in Guangzhou...

Few photos to look at....

Watching Ice Age with daddy...

Maelyne got her Chinese passport...

Maelyne fell asleep while drinking juice at the buffet...

Don't even think of taking my bottle away...

3.26.09 Tengwang Pavilion

It is now Thursday, we started off with usual breakfast at the Atrium Cafe. Maelyne is eating more solid food and she enjoyed her food this morning. We left the hotel at 10:00 am to the Tengwang Pavilion, which happens to be a block away from our hotel, so everyone walked there. The weather is on the low 60s so it was comfortable. This is our last sightseeing here in Nanchang before we fly to Guangzhou on Saturday morning. The pavilion is known as one of the three famous architectural monuments to the south of the Yangtze river. It was built in the 4th year of the Tang Dynasty byt the Tengwang (king) Li Yuan Ying. There are six stories high which features blue tiles, overlapping eaves, colorfully painted roof beams, and red pillars at the main body of the pavilion. We started on the sixth floor where we were treated with a traditional chinese music and some dances. We went out to the balcony to see a great view of the beautiful landscape of green hills and clear water. It was quite a sight! We made our way down to each of the remaining floors where there would be displays of the history of this pavilion and some shops set up. We bought a few things for Maelyne and some souvenirs. The tour was only a couple hours then we walked back to the hotel and had lunch at the Atrium Cafe again. Maelyne enjoyed the pork soup mixed with rice and braised egg.
We got copies of her birth certificates and notarial certificates both in Chinese and English versions just a little after lunch. These are official documents so they will be secured.
Maelyne took a nap but she only slept for 30 minutes. It is only 2:30 pm so we decided we go out and shop but it was raining so we went to the playroom instead. We are still working on her crawling but she's improving. She likes to be in the walker mostly going backwards and sidewards but she's learning her forward moves. It is time to go back to the hotel room. On our way back, we passed by the health club and I looked at the signs by the door and said "pedicure" so I thought I have one before we leave Nanchang. When we got back to the room, I dialed 2 to call for an appointment only to be told "no English" so I went down and I just pointed at the service I wanted to have. I left Maelyne and Henry for the first time since we became a family. So back at the club, a guy ushered me in to a room where the pedicure is to be done but I did not see any spa or any nail polish or the the usual things I see when I go to the salon at home. So I am kind of confused. Anyway, he told me in his broken English he'll clean my feet so I thought okay, maybe he usually starts with soaking the feet in hot water with some kind of herbs. So he came back in with I thought his pedicure set and towels. It thought it is really bizzare. Did not see any clippers or nippers for cleaning but instead he had these like scalpels all lined up evenly on the towel like he's going to do a surgery. He did switch the television to an English channel so I can understand. So, he started cleaning my feet after they are being soaked for about 15 minutes. He offered me a foot massage which I said go ahead, I needed one anyway but I did not get the pedicure I wanted. Oh well... the foot cleaning was not too bad afterall and the foot massage was relaxing.
I hurried back to the room. I was gone for about an hour and a half. I missed Maelyne already. For sure she and Henry had more bonding together. She was all smiles when I saw her like she had missed me, too. One great news was she had the #2 business at last. I can tell by the smell as soon as I walked in. Poor Henry, he has to clean her up but he managed it well. His first time to change a dirty diaper. What a good timing for me, ha,ha.
Our laundry was delivered so we have clean clothes going to Guangzhou on Saturday.
It was already 6:30 pm and we are all hungry. We decided to have dinner at the Sampan Seafood Restaurant. Two other adoptive families were there, too. We all enjoyed dinner and we are back to our room. Since Maelyne only napped for half hour during the day, she went down to sleep at about 9:00 pm and she's in deep sleep right now. Oh and she's sleeping on our bed again.
She likes us being next to her or we like her being next to us. Either way... :)


More pictures to enjoy....



Always a daddys girl...
The Tengwang Pavilion
With the other adoptive families...


Her smile drives us crazy....


The King and Queen and the princess...

3.25.09 Sightseeing at the People's Park

Maelyne slept from about 9:30 pm until I woke her up at 7:30 am for breakast. She has been eating and drinking well which we are happy about. She still need to work on her #2 business though. We have been feeding her baby prune food so hopefully that will help her to go regularly. We left the hotel at 10:00 am to the People's Park with the rest of the families. The weather is on the high 50s and the sun was up so it was not too bad. In China, make sure the babies are covered up properly to keep them warm. The legs or arms should not be exposed otherwise the older people will come to you and tell you it is not okay. They are like the"clothing police" and it is well known among those foreigners who adopt here in China. Maelyne of course was dressed up properly for the walk. The park we went to is one of the biggest parks in Nanchang according to Mary. It was beautiful and since it is spring, the flowers like the cherry blossoms are blooming. We can tell Maelyne was curious with a lot of things around her. She enjoyed the ride in the stroller.
After an hour walk, we headed to one of the poor villages in Nanchang. Though the residents here do not have much they are very hospitable. One house we went into, the couple who is probably in their 70s were having lunch and offered us to eat with them. The food on the table looked delicious but of course we did not join them. We said "xiexie" (thank you) and continued our venture. It was a good 20 minute tour of the village and looking back where we came from I can relate to them. These people do not have a lot of material things but they are happy and grateful with what they have.
We headed back to the hotel room. It is now 12:30 pm and Maelyne is now hungry(us too), we can tell by her cries. We fed her with the rice cereal mixed with some apple paste. She liked it but she did not eat much because she wanted to sleep. She napped for maybe 30 minutes and while she was napping, we decided to order food delivered to our room (again). I was bummed she only napped this short, we had not eaten our lunch yet. Anyway, she was a happy baby when she woke up. We fed her again, this time she shared our Udon noodles and we also gave her the baby prune food.
She had a bath this afternoon, her second since we got her. Still did not like the water much but we managed to give her a good bath. This time she had a longer nap about 3 hours. It is now 5:30 pm and we were supposed to join he group for a dinner. Since Maelyne is still napping, I went with the group only to order take out and came back to the hotel to have dinner with both of them. I have to wake her up because it was already 6:30 pm and we have a "fountain show" to go to at 7:45 pm. So, we went to see the show, it was a 10 minute ride from the hotel. It was Maelyne's first time to go out at night. It was not too cold so it was nice to be out. The show was spectacular, ten times better than the one at the Bellagio in Las Vegas. Although it only lasted for 20 minutes, it was worth seeing it. Maelyne was not really into the show, but was interested with the people she saw around her.
Back to the hotel, we know she will not go to sleep soon because of her long nap earlier. I thought her napping schedule will need to change, I'll work on that. We were able to put her down to sleep though around 9:30 pm on our bed again. Maelyne continues to do very well with us. She feels very secure when she sees us around her. Loves to be hugged and carried especially by Henry. She learned the "flying kiss" today and she is talking more. We are working on the crawling, we think she got the idea but she does not bend her legs so she gets frustrated. I don't think she's had much opportunity to do this in the orphanage. She recognizes her American name now. Everyday, she amazes us with what she can do. We are very happy that she seems to be adjusting and bonding to us quickly.

Some pictures taken at the park...

3.24.09 Walk in the pedestrian street...

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The weather today is much better than yesterday. The sun actually came out and it is a beautiful day, perfect for our walk. Most families join in the walk with babies in their strollers with our local and CHI guides, Mary and Elsie, respectively. We left at 10:00 am after we ate breakfast at the buffet. Maelyne really enjoyed her ride. At the pedestrian street, there's a lot of shopping stores at the bottom floor of the buildings and looks like there are residents or maybe offices on upper floors. While we were walking, we drew some crowds to take a peek at the babies or maybe just have not seen foreigners (Caucasian) before. It was like we are celebrities and being mobbed by the paparazzi. For me and Henry, they thought we are also one of them so they did not care about us. However, Maelyne got a lot of attention, they are speaking of course in Chinese but we think they are saying, "she's very cute" :). There were 2 little boys came at different times, to say hello to Maelyne and thought that was neat! She is already liked by boys. Uh oh.. The walk was nice and just what we needed to breath on some fresh air. Some of us separated ways and on our way to the hotel, we stopped by the market to buy more groceries. Here in China, if you go grocery shopping, you have to bring your own bags or buy them at the store and bag your groceries yourself. So we made sure we brought the bags we bought from Walmart yesterday.
At the market, I wanted to buy a conditioner (believe it or not I have not used conditioner since we got to China, only the shampoo and conditioner in one that the hotel provides, but not the same as using those 2 separately), I asked the saleslady to help me find it but could not tell because she doesn't speak English, everything is written in Chinese. (Our guides were not with us since we we came to the market on our own). She was able to find someone that can translate in English (I think a Chinese customer also), so I am happy to get the pantene brand.
Maelyne seemed to enjoy shopping but she was getting fussy so we had to get back to the hotel quickly after paying for our groceries. Remember, in my last post she has not pooed? Well today, she is really trying to go but she's constipated we think. It was heartbreaking to listen to her cries (we both cried, too), but we did our best to comfort her. I called Mary, our local guide and said she'll buy suppository at the pharmacy. Lo and behold, she came up to our room with the stuff in about 10-15 minutes and that thing worked magic. Maelyne was relieved and so we are. She slept peacefully and we were able to relax. Thank God! They said, babies born in China are potty trained early so they don't wear diapers for a long time because they are expensive and not a lot of parents can afford it especially in the orphanages. Mary showed us the way to hold her when we think she needs to go so next time we'll use that trick. In addition, Elsie, the CHI coordinator said we should give her chrisanthemum tea to help the constipation and she went and got a package for us. We're happy and appreciative of all the help from everyone in our group.
After Maelyne woke up from her nap after 2 hours or so, we fed her with rice cereal mixed with apple paste. She must be hungry she almost finished everything in the bowl. She also drank apple juice from her bottle. She was happy and ready to play. She loves her musical toys and the ones that rattle. She is now more confy with us and must have found her comfort zone. As if we've had her for a long time now. She's a quick learner. She knows the "give me five and high five, which she only learned yesterday. She's been talking to us, laughing, smiling to us and at other people and really curious about everything. When she sees a new object, she demands to touch or hold or feel it otherwise she'll be screaming. We were in the playroom after her meal and she was really active. We put her in the walker and mostly she did is move sidewards and backward. We taught her to move forward and hopefully she'll remember. Henry showed her to throw balls but she did not quite made it yet.
At dinner tonight at the hotel's Sampan Seafood Restaurant with the Connels and the Epleys, she was getting the waitresses attention. She seems sociable. She was happy with the food, too. She had noodles and fried rice this time.
Putting her to bed was a little hard again but she was able to sleep around 9:30 pm.

Here are some of her happy moments:

Maelyne found a new friend...

Enjoying the ride during the walk...

Maelyne loves to shop...

Trying to walk with the walker...

Trying to throw the balls...

Slide time...

3.23.09 Official Adoption Day...

Maelyne's first night with us should have been great if I did not mess up our sleep. I went to bed around 11:00 pm after Henry put Maelyne to her crib around 8:30 pm. I was in deep sleep coz I have been very tired that day. But when I woke up I thought it is already 6:00 am, so I took a shower, put my make up on and got Henry to take a shower as well. While he was taking a shower, I got Maelyne out of her crib and start undressing her to change her clothes. We have to leave at 8:00 am for notary interview, etc. and I don't want to be the last family to meet at the lobby of the hotel. We still have to eat breakfast. Henry double checked the time as soon as he came out of the shower only to find out it was only a little past midnight. Oh crap... What am I thinking? Poor Maelyne she was crying (she hates being dressed up). So we all tried to get back to bed but Maelyne took a while before she could go back to sleep again.
It has been raining and windy today. After breakfast, we went to the adoption office to finalize the adoption. The room we were in was full of families from different agencies, who have adopted here in China. We had our picture taken and a solo photo of our child. After the picture taking, we had a brief interview and signed some papers. Then we received our adoption certificate making us legal parents for Maelyne (at least in the eyes of China). :)))))
Next stop was to have our certificates notarized and then we applied for Maelyne's passport. Last stop was at Walmart to do some shopping. We bought a Size 2 diaper for Maelyne, baby bottles, etc and more water supply. Maelyne enjoyed the ride in the cart she did not want to get off. The wind is really blowing hard. Maelyne is now getting fussy I can tell but managed to be a good girl. She was even putting some smiles and try to play with us.
We finally got back to the hotel. We had the whole afternoon to be alone. We skipped the group dinner, instead we had room service. Maelyne is now getting comfortable with us. She was smiling a lot and even talking to us. She is not that quiet baby I thought she was yesterday.
We were surprised when she copied us said baba, (chinese for dad) and mama. She became a handful little girl today but we are enjoying every minute of it.
We had trouble putting her to sleep tonight. Henry and I have been switching trying to get her
to sleep but neither of us is doing the job. She did not poop today which I am concerned that it might be causing her problem. I'll see tomorrow if she doesn't still then I have to do something to relieve her. It is past 10:00 when she finally calmed down and she's now sleeping not in her crib but right next to dad. I can tell she's a Daddy's girl.
Enjoy some of her pictures taken today....

We can now cut off our red threads after having
them on for 3 years...

At the adoption service center...

At the place to apply for Maelyne's passport..

First ride in a shopping cart...

Loves to ride in the stroller...

Daddy's girl...

Maelyne loves to play with toys...