Guangzhou 1

Today we went to this amazing temple. It was beautiful and very interesting. It's the oldest Buddhist temple in this province. It's about 1500 years old. It was very neat.

 We also went to this awesome place. It was a school built a very long time ago by everyone in the province with the last name of Chan to educate their children in. It's now an arts and crafts museum. It was the most decorated place I've ever seen. It made Rococo look a bit plain.

These little bonsai trees are everywhere. They're in parks, buildings, on the streets and they're always in lovely pots.

This huge urn was filled with water and had a few huge goldfish in it. Emily has been sitting up much stronger today, and she's been holding up her head really well. Thriving-galore! Oh we love her so much!

Yesterday when we arrived, there was a welcome basket for Em on the dresser. So cute!

She was so happy to get undressed and roll around on the bed. She's starting to grab at toys, but not very much. I don't think she's really been around toys that much because she hasn't even known what to do them at all. She mostly just stares at and plays with her hands. It breaks your heart really.

 She's great with her tongue and makes all sorts of pretty sounds!

 So sleepy after dinner.

She is so cute! the 6-9 month clothes that I brought her are too small. I'm going to leave them all here for orphanages. Even though is totally hot and super humid un Guangzhou, I still feel like I have to have her in an undershirt. I don't know why. We're staying in a Marriot and we're LOVING the amazing air conditioning. The AC left much to be desired at our last hotel, not here though! We took a nap and woke up COLD! It's awesome! As I'm writing this, Em is in her bed next to me cracking up at who knows what. It's so cute, but so sad! How many hours, days, weeks did she spend alone in a crib, cracking herself up. Did anyone love up my baby? We're making up for lost time! We can't get enough of her and her big, wet, open-mouth, tongue slobbery kisses! She is so wonderful!

We went for a walk tonight and this girl showed off her extreme flexibility! She had both legs out for a little bit in a perfect split.

In less than a week we'll be home. I'm so thankful for the time that we've had to bond with our new baby, but we can't wait to share her and show her off! Mostly we can't wait to see our girls. We miss them like crazy. I cried all morning after I talked to them this morning. We are so thankful to everyone who is caring for them and loving them while we're gone. So many people have made this trip and bringing Emily home possible for us, and we love you so much for it! She is so worth it! As hard as this  has been, we'd do it again in a second. She's just fabulous that way!