Josie's Reports

Here is a glimpse of the daughter we already love (from her Nanjing Social Welfare Institute reports):

*She has 16 teeth!
*In November she weighed 10.6 kg (probably including several layers of clothes) and was 82 cm tall.
*She was sitting at 6 months, but only in her crib.
*She eats eggs every morning.
*At around nine months, when her hands touched for the first time, she "laughed out loud."
*"When she is having fun, she makes "da da" noises and saliva dribbles out of the corners of her mouth."
*Her "personality is open, lively, and extroverted."
*"She loves sweet food."
*She lives on the Rainbow floor. (Perfect for a rainbow family.)
*She sleeps "soundly and well"! (8:30 pm to 6 am and then naps from after breakfast to 8:30 and noon to 1:30.
*Her favorite person is her Half the Sky (see link) grandmother.
*She has a good appetite.
*Favorite activity: playing outside.
*Favorite toy: toys that move when she presses them.
*She imitates words (a local dialect of Mandarin).
*She is active, fond of playing with toys, has a ready smile, gets along well with others, and is fond of reading picture books. She is "obstinate sometimes."
*Her update says "They love that her personality, she is very docile."

China, Here We Come!

Nanjing is in Jiangsu Province which in in pink (includes Shanghai) on the east coast. We will spend one week there. The other week we will spend in Guangdong Province where the US Embassy is located. We will later decide whether to fly into Beijing (north), or Hong Kong (south), but if we go in a group, we may not have a choice!