Day 4 with Mia

Picture from yesterday (Wednesday) taken by a family from Hampton, VA.


What a smile!!!!

Wow! What a busy day. First we went to the Chen Clan Academy - see the pictures above. It was cold and rainy so we had to wrap Mia up in her jacket plus mine. Next we went to a shopping district - very interesting. The Chinese people there took pictures of us with our babies and older ladies came and covered all of the babies up with our blankets and coats. We bought Mia another pair of shoes - this time with squeaks in the soles. She looks down at them when she takes each step. When we got back to the hotel we were all very tired and took a nap. We were woken with a phone call to come back down to the lobby to go for a chicken pox vaccination. One of the children in our group has chicken pox so we all had to go and get shots. You can just imagine what she thought of that!!! While we were at the clinic, they went ahead and did her physical exam (which was scheduled for tomorrow). She screamed through all of that. She weighs 22 pounds - which is what I predicted based on her previous weights. All in all I think she handled the exam pretty well.

We have seen a little progress with Mia and Chris. She let him feed her cherios at the clinic and even smiled at him. She is on the bed right now eating cherios with him and fussing in between each one. BUT - that is some progress. Maybe she will let him hold her tomorrow. Tomorrow we have a totally free day because we had the physical exam this afternoon. More shopping maybe? Or another run on the tredmill? We'll see.

Hope our Virginia friends and family get to see some snow tonight and tomorrow!!!!