Lucy the beautiful

So we made it back alive from the store. Lucy is such a good girl. With all the comotion and HOT air and cab ride and horns honking she was just humming and kicking her feet, She really likes to have one thing in eachhand. She really likes the little rubber duck and stacking cup. Yesterday we realized about an hour after breakfast that she was still holding a piece of watermelon,

Every monrning I count the days until we come home and somehow I always count eight days. it is like groundhogs day or something. The air here is weird, you just sweat. Even if you are in the air conditioned you have a nice glaze,. The smog was really bad yesterday, no blue sky - we have not seen any in this town.

My peeps at work will need to remind me of this blog the next time someone makes "tuna" coffee and snap peas because the smells are very strong and fishy and strange, it is throwing my sniffer into overdrive.

John and Lucy are sleeping. She is in her crib-yea! So she does this thing that she thinks is hilarious. She smacks me in the face, and then laughs. Our guide Yisha was in the room withus yesterday when she did it and spoke stearnly in Chinese- basically "don't hit mommy". She looked at her all serious and then smacked me like three more times. We tried so hard not to laugh. She also kind of swats her hand like she is faking you out, she thinks that is funny too. Whenever she looks in the mirror she swats at herself and laughs. We know when she meets her cousins that they may get a swat.

Today we are going on a day trip of some sort of temple and some other place. they are famous butI can not remember the names. It is the birth place of kung fu. We were not sure if we would go because tomorrow we are having another 3 hour bus ride to Lucy's orphange., We have not paid the donation fee to them yet. 24,000 rmb's. this translates into 3500 USD and they will expect this tomorrow.

I told john we needed to bring the potty(it has little handles and a roll ball- something to pass the time?) and he said that we can't and that we will do what the chinese do with their kids and have her squat outside. somehow I can picture just being peed all over again.

It is 5 am now and we leave at 8. it will be a long day but hopefully fun to see something different. i hope john can post some new pics soon.
Thoughts about Lucy:
She is such a good girl. As soon after she eats something her little hand shoots outstretched at us for more.
She gets easily scared and her little body will shake. Like if you go to lift her up in the air her hands start moving and her tounge does too and she just hugs on so tight when you bring her back down.
She loves to practice walking, she will have a smile from ear to ear. she is a ways off from having the muscle strength, her legs and arms are so skinny and sort of floppy.
She teases johnmark. she will go to hand him the duck and when he goes to get it she pulls it right back and smiles.
We love feeding her, She does not like cold things at all. she would not have been used to cold food in the orphanage. We gave her a taste of ice cream and her face crinckled like we gave her pickles or a lemon,
We were at breakfast the other day and I literally watched a daddy fall in love with his little girl. It was the sweetest thing in the world. He was talking to her and feeding her and the look on his face was amazing, it makes me cry just remembering it. John has been so amazing with her and me because I have had moments of panic or like what did we do. He is so sensitive to her and just loves to have her sleep on him,
Her head sweats so much that I will be soaked when she lays on me,

Anyways, they have really good banana bread here at breakfast, I was thinking about buying a loaf for the orphange ladies but I am torn. sometimes I get sad about how she was cared for so I am not sure if they did the best they could have for her or they just did what they knew how to do. Yisha said her orphanage is full of many children and that could be a lot to handle with limited resources. maybe I will bring the bread.

Am I rambling? ok better go , hope to get those pics on here.

ton :)