Sunday, February 19

Today we skipped the sight seeing. Ann and Angela headed downstairs for a Chinese massage. It was $12 US dollars for 60 minutes and felt wonderful. In the afternoon all of us caught a taxi to go to Shamian Island for shopping. We mostly window shopped for prices. We will go back tomorrow to buy. We did order Kayli a chop. (stamp with her Chinese and American name)
Later we had dinner with the other families with Table #4. We went to the Veranda Restaurant here in the hotel. They had a buffet style dinner which had all kinds of safe fruits and veggies along with any meat of your choice cooked the way you wanted it and a choice of about 8 different desserts. Everyone enjoyed the LARGE chocolate fountain. It was the best meal yet. We are really liking Guangzhou. It has been fun! There was a Mexican group at dinner playing musical instruments. They played all American songs. We were cracking up. Go to china and here Mexican music--how funny.

We hope to go back to the White Swan Hotel to take pictures. It is beautiful.

There are 4 Kayli's on this trip. (popular name) One of the earlier pictures showed 3 of the 4 Kayli's.

Well off to relax before little Kayli awakes.

So far we have learned that Kayli loves carrots and prunes--baby food. She loves Cascadian Farms O's (like Cheerios), congee (rice soup), carrot soup, and raisins. She likes her bottles HOT!!!! She HATES stuffed animals and baby dolls. (orphanage told us that and she cries when I show her one) She is short tempered like her daddy. HA HA! She loves the color red and sleeps most of the time with a red stacking cup the whole time. She also loves her face to be covered while sleeping. We are finding out that she enjoys looking at books and will dance with a little musical toy that we bought her.

We have already seen a HUGE change from the baby that would not even open her legs to fit around your waist to a child that hangs on to us. She even holds her arms out to go to you. She sits up well now. She is rolling over too. She loves to stand up. She hasn't quite figured out how to put food into her mouth but opens it like a little bird to be fed.

She has really warmed up to all of us now! We love it. Ariel asked today if she will get another sister and we told her that we are really considering it. This is the best experience one could have. We are so thankful to God and for Kayli's mom that brought her into this world. We have truly been blessed! We will have to buy a mini van in 2007--ha ha!