We have Abby!

This is a sideways view of the Chinese potty at the airport. It's not to difficult to use but it is a cultural experience! We have found some western ones. By the way mom, there are lots of things that remind me of home here: the day we went to the Great Wall, I ate some really good green stuff that tasted just like mustard greens, we drove past a statue of General Li who apparently conquered Beijing, it's 97 degrees today and the hotel towels smell just like the Stockyards so I haven't been homesick one bit!

This is our guide for Nanchang, Guilan in the lobby of our hotel.

This is the note her orphanage brought to show us. Her birthmother wrote it (it's sideways). All it says is her birth date time and the Chinese name her birthmother gave her. It means quiet one but we just found this out today so we'll have to decide if we want to try to incorporate it as a second middle name somehow.

We went to the civil affairs office around 3pm and met Abby! It took a minute for her to agree to let us hold her and she was pretty unsure of the weird way we talk! She kept looking at any Chinese people that walked by like don't you notice something funny about these people! She didn't really like the bus ride back to the hotel either, but I think it's because she had just done a three hour ride from her orphanage to the province capital of Nanchang. I found out she has been in the orphanage since January. She also had a fever a week ago that was so bad she had an IV which they put in her head :(. That's why she hasa patch shaved out of the side of her hair.

Abby had a steamed egg, rice congee (think oatmeal), and a few bites of rice noodles flavored with fish broth at the hotel restaurant. These are things she ate at the orphanage.

Abby likes it when Daddy gets her belly!

Abby had a big day, she was really tired. We gave her a sponge bath, put her in the pj's the orphanage gave us so she would have something familiar and gave her a bottle. After a while, she just couldn't keep her eyes open any longer!