Zhengzhou Day 5

Yesterday was a much needed rest day for most of our group. One family had to travel to their orphanage to complete paperwork and they got a flat tire on the way back. Which normally wouldn't be such a big deal but after the driver changed the tire, he decided to call the insurance people to come look at it and had to take the good tire back off and put the flat one back on. Go figure! The family said that they could have walked back to the hotel, but I guess they weren't allowed to. Long day for them but they said their new son, Liam, was a trooper and handled it all very well. He's almost 2 1/2 and such a cutie! I'll try to get pics of the rest of the babies today to post.

We haven't seen the sun since we've been in China but it warmed up slightly yesterday. We went to a huge park and walked around. We're all going stir crazy sitting in the hotel. Anyway, the park must be beautiful in the spring and summer. There were tons of trees, little paths everywhere, and it went along a canal where people were cane fishing. Although I wouldn't want to eat anything out of that water, it was a little green soup looking! We found a play ground for the older kids to play at. It was 10 yuan per kid but the guy bartered down to 30 yuan for the 4 kids. But they had fun, definitely got rid of some energy.

Our hotel is nice, small rooms and hard beds of course. Our room is really crowded with the crib and roll away for Syd but we spend most of our time hanging out on the bed since Alex isn't very mobile yet. We were all sitting in the hallway yesterday so we could chat, and we got kicked out again. Since adoptions are fairly new in this province, I guess they're not used to us Americans doing what we want! So we just all moved to one of our rooms and hung out for a while. James and Syd have been working on homework once a day, usually while Alex naps and I just try to get some sleep too.

Alex is starting to get a cold and had a rough night. He's a finger sucker, so as soon as his fingers went in his mouth he couldn't breathe and would start crying. Poor Syd was getting rather disgusted with "all that loud crying!" But he is such a happy little guy! He loves to be super baby and his little legs just kick a million miles a minute! We're all taking turns feeding him his bottle and Syd really enjoys doing that. He is an eater, that's for sure. He likes noodles, watermelon, fried rice, eggs, goldfish and whatever else kind of snacks he tries! And of course, cheerios are a huge hit too!

We didn't take too many pics today. We're going to a museum this morning and shopping this afternoon so I'll get some more to post later.

We miss everyone and wish we could be home sooner than 10 days, but hopefully the weather will be nicer in Guangzhou so we can get out more.