Off to Guangzhou

(Emily is a real trooper on airplanes, she especially likes the take offs)

Today we flew to Guangzhou for the final leg of our journey. In Guangzhou we will complete the U.S. part of the adoption, the medical examination (this is where they hold up a bell or something next to the child's ear, and if they move their head when is sounds, "Yep, your hearing is fine")

Lily fell asleep after our "lunch" on the plane. All I had to do was tell her it's time to sleep and I placed her head on my shoulder....voila....she was out. I was even successful in passing her off to her mommy.

Who couldn't love this little face

Lily is checking out the view from the Westin Hotel, it's quite spectacular.

We were absolutely blown away by our room here at the Westin. It is HUGE! It is also very nice. Very modern decorations, Japanese style sliding doors to the bathroom, flat screen television, marble desk and more.... Really nice!

A Little Note about Lily

So far, everyone who has encountered her have noted how very smart she is and how well she communicates to them. She speaks Mandarin and Wu dialect and some english. Someone had been teaching her some english words. You should hear her say pillow, she says peddo, it's so cute. She says car, bed, shoe, Emmy, bye bye, and will repeat just about any word you tell her to. Of course she doesn't understand what it means but that's only a matter of time. She does have some bad behaviors, such as hitting, pinching, spitting, yelling, but what do you expect from a child who has had very little one on one instruction and training and no parenting at all. Over all she is very well behaved. She is beginning to initiate kisses to her sister rather than hitting her. She has been coming up to Christy and myself and giving hugs and kisses, overall she is doing quite well considering how aware she is about what's going on.