2 Days Left-- YIPEEEEE!!!!

OK, so you adoptive parents have to support me here--- we all love our time in China-- right?? It is an amazing experience that you cherish for the rest of your life-- correct?? But man, towards the last few days of your trip you just want out! It is not meant to diminish anything about the trip-- we love our time here-- but man, home sounds so sweet!! We have 2 nights left-- tonight-- which it is bedtime now-- and then tomorrow night and then we leave for the airport around 10am and then we are on our full day of travel home--- I am soooooo looking forward to HOME-- my bed-- my kids-- my nice smelling non smoke filled clothes-- not eating 3 meals out a day-- not having people run after you trying to get you to come into their store to buy the same things you saw at the 50 other stores you looked in-- random people not staring you down-- waiters at restaurants not standing 3 feet from you looking at your daughter and shaking their heads and speaking in Chinese to each other literally 3 feet from you-- woman and men attempting to pull our daughters pants lower so that her skin will not be exposed and she will not freeze to death in the 60 degree weather-- heck, men and woman blatantly looking at you with disapproval and saying things in Chinese because your daughter is not wearing a jacket and we are those crazy Americans who are letting our kid run without shoes on the playground. There are so many things I miss about home and I just cant wait to get there. Again, don't get me wrong, we love China and we love being here-- but, we are ready to be at home with our kids as a family of 6!!!! I want Ethan and Owen to meet their little sister who they have vowed they will not torment. I want Mia to meet her little sister who she has vowed to share her things with. I want life to progress like normal and us get in our normal life again. We cant wait to be HOME!!!!

I had to take some gratuitous bath shots-- Finley was not amused

Showing her bath toy Kai Lan

We made a run to Starbucks which is always a time killer-- towards the end when you have nothing to do all day, you find ways to kill time and Starbucks seems to be popular among the adoptive families.

OK, it was a Chi Tea Latte and there was hardly any left-- geezzzzz... Go ahead anonymous-- flame me all you want-- and by the way since you think we are new parents because we let our daughter have a balloon in her mouth-- WE ARE NOT-- we are just not freakish uptight parents who have to sterilize and fluff their child's world so they don't get hurt or God forbid catch cold-- we are normal parents-- just in case you were wondering. Sorry for the rant-- sick of anonymous posters who like to make digs at your parenting while under the curtain of anonymity.

This was milk-- FYI



We had tea at a shop with a guy who looked like he was going to pull out something very different than tea that was also very green. We were a bit scared at first but then realized he was nice and the tea was good-- not sure how this pic got here but ok we will go with it.

Walking along the edge of the pearl river.



Not a great shot but it is precious when Finley rests her head on Kevin's head. It is just adorable. Kevin's neck is becoming very strong.

She looks upset but she was not. She was actually very happy so this is a bad shot but she finally let me carry her around tonight. This is a first. She has been warming up a ton and will let me do almost everything for her now but never will she let me carry her until tonight. She is one heavy girl but mama loved every second of it!!!! Oh ya, she will also only let Kevin take her poop. Not sure why but that is like a special time for them-- or something like that..?..?

At Dinner she was acting silly. Cow and Bridge for all you BTDT adoptive parents

This was so cute and the picture does not do it justice but she was reading our bill in Chinese. She was going letter by letter reading each character and if I didn't know better I would have thought she was really reading-- being 3 we know she wasn't but it was convincing!!!



Tomorrow we could leave but we could not get a flight so we are leaving on Thursday. We have Finley's passport and we are ready to go. There is a couple who make documentaries and are currently doing something here in GZ about some flower but had decided their next big documentary is going to be on Special Needs Adoption!!! They overheard me talking to Suzi at lunch the other day (Suzi-- remember at Lucy's-- they were the white couple behind you) and they have been fascinated with the special needs adoption and the community. Anyway, they are staying at our hotel and I saw them at breakfast the other day and we began to talk. I guess she works or use to work for the BBC and did a thing on China adoption years ago and has been astonished by the trends in adoption and how it is favoring towards Special Needs. I guess their company, which is based in Shanghai and also in LA, have decided to do their next big documentary on China Special Needs Adoption. After talking with them for a long time, they asked if they could interview us on camera before we left and I of course thought that would be great. Even better is we are only 40 min from LA so they could do follow up with us later if they need to. So tomorrow at 4:30pm they are going to interview us and then follow us to the playground and watch Finley play. Should be kind of cool. If there are any Special Needs adoptive families in the LA area who would like to be a part of this documentary, please email me or comment in my comments section and I will forward your info onto them. VICKY, if you are reading, I told them about your family and your beautiful girls and Jillian and they would love love love to interview you and were even thinking if you were willing, they would fly down from Shanghai to film you-- they would love to even get your gotcha and all that if you were willing-- of course I have no idea if you would, but they were totally wanting to talk with you. Email me if you can and I will email you now.