1st Day in Guangzhou!

Our medical exam went well and fairly uneventful.  Our little tiny baby boy weighs 22 pounds and is 30 inches long. I knew this little baby boy was a chub, but nothing in comparison to his almost 30 pound brother.  Samuel is 29 pounds and 31.5 inches tall.  He is a super chub.  And for those who have adopted from China, you know the routine, a squeaky toy to check their hearing, a flash light to check their eye site, and a quick look over and they are pronounced healthy and ready to fly to the U.S.  Its not a real medical check by any stretch of the imagination, but every child has to go thru it in order to get their visa to enter the states.  We go back in 48 hours to have Samuel’s TB test read.  Benjamin was spared the trauma because he is under 2, so by law does not have to have a tb test.

It was good to be back in Guangzhou and see the familiar sites and sounds, and, oh the smells.  But that is everywhere in China.  We also had a round of paperwork to do once the medical exam was over and since that lot was cast on me from the beginning, David visited the White Swan play room with another family, while the dad and I went to the business center with our guide to prepare our paperwork for our consulate appointment.  What was suppose to be a ’10 minute paperwork meeting’ lasted a good 1 ½ hours. But that is the end of the paperwork process for now – until we go thru the re-adoption process.  It sometimes seems never ending but so worth it all to have these little boys as our sons.  They are ADORABLE and such blessings. 

Mercy, who is our baby girl and not yet 3 years old, has not been loving this little brother thing – no surprise to those that know her.  She is a huge mamma’s girl and can hardly stand it that I would give my undivided attention to someone other than her.  Yesterday she wanted us to leave them at the hotel when we were getting ready to leave for the airport.  But today she seemed to turn a corner.  She was kissing them and saying, “see mama, I gentle”, while stroking their hair and patting their back.   When we got back to the hotel after our ‘short’ paperwork meeting, and everyone was starving, she got the gerber puffs out and started feeding them, carefully taking turns and saying, “Here you go boy (to Samuel) and here you go Benjin” (her way of saying his name and now we are all saying it).  It was such a sweet moment.  Sadly, it didn’t last as long as I had hoped.  But progress is a great thing.