2nd Doctor Appointment

Adriana went to her second Dr appointment yesterday.  She now weighs 18.11 pounds.  She gained 2 pounds in 4 weeks!  She certainly likes to eat.  Adriana is not your typical small Chinese baby.  She got 2 shots yesterday and she cried for about 45 seconds.  She was a good girl.  Last night and this morning she is being a little fussy.  We're going to leave soon for our morning walk before it gets too hot and hopefully the air will calm her down a bit.  We found out that Adriana has eczema, which from what we read from our agency guide, can be quite common.  The guide says that children living in orphanages are not getting enough calories or proper proportions of various nutrients.  Also can be caused by wrapping children up in layers of warm clothing all day and under the layers may be skin drenched in sweat, urine, or stools and it robs the skin of it's natural oils.  Right now she has a red patch behind her leg and we are using a hydrocortisone cream.  The Dr said 2/3 of kids outgrow the condition by the age of 8.

Chinese Wedding Fireworks

This video was taken from our hotel window when we first arrived in Nanchang.  There was a Chinese wedding taking place.  They set off long ropes of firecrackers.  It was very loud and they set them off several times this day.  I had to finally close the window as the plume of smoke made it to the ninth floor.

Small Glimpse of the Great Wall of China

Chairman Mao/Beijing

This photo was taken in Tiananmen Square at the entrance to the Forbidden City.

Beijing At Night

My Sweet Girl

Like the shirt?

Just being happy

Hour after gotcha video

One day at a time

Everything is still going very well.  We are still trying to tweak Adriana's sleeping schedule but there is always a wrench thrown into the mix.  Today Adriana slept in, I finally woke her at 6:45am.  She is still being very good.  Yesterday we saw that she cut another tooth on top.  She now has 5 teeth.

We are still planning on going through all of the pictures this week.  Then we will have to start going through all the videos.

Just resting our eyes

Can you find Adriana in this picture?

Can you find Adriana in this picture?  It was taken in the play room of our hotel in Nanchang.  Lilly (on the left) was a great friend helping out.

Still going through photo's

We haven't really begun going through the hundreds of photo's and videos.  One that we ran across was very good.  Believe it or not, this photo is taken at Mitchel Field airport in Milwaukee after 14 and 1/2 hours in the airplane from Hong Kong.  We made it!  And now Adriana is an American Citizen.  As with all the blog photo's you can double click on them to make them larger.

Attacked at Wal-Mart in Nanchang

Here are some pictures I quickly snapped as Cindy was getting surrounded by people at Wal-Mart in Nanchang.  I saw people headed towards her and ran laughing the whole time.  Cindy ended up with about a dozen people around her.  They were reading the card around Cindy's neck written in Chinese.  We think the card read that we were adopting this baby from China but really have no idea as it was written in Chinese.  I still laugh thinking of this.  In China people would just walk up and grab the card around your neck and start reading it without really acknowledging you.

Back in the room with Mom

Here is a video showing Adriana with mom shortly after getting the bundle of joy.

Back in room with Dad

Here is Adriana back in the room within an hour after her being part of the family.

Dad's Gotcha Video

Here is Dan's Gotcha Day video.  You can see Adriana has the tag in her hand with her referral photo on it.  I will post some more video today of about 1/2 hour after we first got Adriana and are back in the hotel room.

Gotcha Day Video

This is the very short Gotcha Day Video.  We were originally told that Adriana was to be brought to our room around 3:30pm.  I was on the hotel phone around 3:00 talking to another family about ordering take-out food for dinner that night.  I hung up the phone and it rang immediately at 3:07 pm.  It was our guide, he said our baby was ready for us and to come and get her on the 7th floor.  I started video taping when the elevator door opened.  Talk about chaos!  It all happened so fast.  I think all the families were in shock.  A few minutes later we were back in the hotel room with Adriana.

Click here for video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww5i9sm0O0E

We were in shock.  As you can see she had changed so much since the referral photo's we had gotten.  I just think with all of the clothes she was packed in her referral photos made it hard to see how she really looked.  In the video you can see Adriana is holding some type of card.  We didn't look at it for over 20 minutes.  When we did we saw her name and referral photo on the card.  We did allot of comparing her to the photos.  We just had to be positive it was her.  Now we see Adriana making the same face she did in her referral photo's.  She makes that face when she has a little "attitude."

Been busy

We've been busy lately trying to get organized and on schedule.  It's been a busy time but Adriana has been doing great.  The last few days we've had company over, went to a graduation and been working around the house.  Had a little problem with the video but have worked it out and will try to post some soon.

Average day of traffic in Jiangxi

I will attach a video of the traffic viewed from our room in Jiangxi.  They believe in the horn honking in China.  The horns were honking 24/7 and we still don't know what there is to honk about at 3am but they found reasons to honk.  Just click on the photo above to start the video.