Medical Appt. and Ann

We were amazed at breakfast this morning to walk back to our table and pass by table after table of new families who were there adopting.  So many new families being formed and children getting to go to their forever homes.  It was awesome!

We met 2 other families who are with our same agency and left for our medical appointments at 9:00.  We drove by van to a new building and first had Emily's visa picture taken. New families kept pouring in. We tried to count, and think there were at least 100 families there!!  It is also a medical office for the local people, but they had the adoptive families on the opposite side in a different area.  There were 3 stations set up. The first station was a nurse to get weighed/measured, then we went to an ENT station, and then another station where a doctor reviewed her medical file and gave her a medical exam. 

She did great!  No fear of doctors, Praise God!  Because she has had many surgeries, we weren't sure how she would react, but she was completely at ease. Well, until we went to a final area where she had to have a TB test.  THAT, she did not like, and cried for about 5 minutes.  I'm sure if I would have had a lollipop I could have distracted her, but I didn't think to take any snacks. 

We then headed back to our hotel, and I went up to the executive lounge to do some paperwork for Emily's visa with the other families from our agency and Aron. (I spelled her name wrong previously!)  In the meantime, the rest of the gang ordered some lunch.

We then had prearranged to meet up with Ann, the lady who sent our packages and cakes to Emily while we were waiting. She took us shopping for some pearls and Chinese custom dresses for Emily. Ann is a little tiny thing, but owns the streets of China!  We loved her!  She would yell out as we would come up on a crowd, and the sea of people would part for us to go through.  It was too funny.  We really had to hustle to keep up with her as she would weave in and out of everyone.  She took us on the subway which was very clean and air conditioned, and we had a taxi ride to the pearl district and back to our hotel.

We really enjoyed talking with her and spending our afternoon with her!  Emily slept half of the time in our Ergo carrier.  When she was awake, Ann was great talking with her and explaining things to her.  It was fun having her tell us exactly what Emily was saying.  Our guide in Nanning seemed to have a little difficulty understanding her, although Emily is pronouncing English words much better than we ever expected.  But both Aron and Ann really have talked with her a lot, and said that although Emily isn't completely clear as expected because of her cleft lip and palate repair, she is very easy to understand. 

We got back to our hotel around 5:30 and went out to McDonald's for some fast food.  I know, I know.....we just needed some American food!  Emily wasn't so sure about our crazy food, but ended up liking the fries and ate a few bites of hamburger and chicken. 

We stopped by a 7/11 (yeah, they have those too!) and got some water and noodle bowls for our room.  (Cole- they are like ramen noodles, but taste much better.  Emily loves them!)  We went back to our hotel and found where the pool is and the boys decided to go swimming.  The boys literally jumped in and back out of the pool.  It was freeeezzzzing!  It's outdoors, so they need to try again in the daytime!! 

By this point, we were all exhausted and all went to bed around 8:30 -9.  It's now 7 am and Emily is still sleeping!  She likes her sleep!!  Here are some more random pictures of our day:

 Kisses for her big brother

Our hotel lobby

More pictures of the lobby

The funny faces of Emily~ this is how she poses for the camera!

Don't let her fool you~ she is playing a game with Seth.  She pretends to sleep and then jumps up and giggles!!