Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Day 2: Grace is calm and playful







The first picture is Anna sleeping on the floor next to her new sister. Grace slept 10 straight hours last night. Oh, I hope that continues!!! We are having so much fun playing with our new baby! She babbles lots and loves to have her clothes off to crawl around. Anna is the big helper who likes to hold and play with Grace. Anna still needs to be held too as Mommy is giving the new baby lots of attention. We are having fun!! Grace gags easily which we found out with 4 big spit-ups so far. The one tonight was at a Thai Restaurant when she emtied her stomache after having a full bottle. She does not like new textures so we won't try any crakers or cherrios for a while. Today we had to return to the Civil Affaris Office to do interviews, passport photos, notary, etc. The paperwork is going smoother and faster than when we were in Chongqing almost 4.5 years ago adopting Anna. Then we spent time shopping in a dept. store for baby things. We purchased some interesting snack food, which we will find out when we try it what it is exactly since we don't read Chinese. Tomorrow we see have the medical exam.

5 comments:

Lisa said...

Greetings! We are waiting to adopt (hopefully very soon!) with FTIA....We'll also have a big sister Anna and we can only hope she is as natural at it as your Anna. That is beautiful to see. Thanks for sharing your journey, and congratulations!!
Lisa, John & Anna

Caitlin said...

It has been so great to follow along with you and see pictures of your beautiful family!
Lots of love!
Caitlin

Mac said...

Hi Debra!
We adopted after you in 2004 (with the Talberts) and friends of ours are actually with you right now(Margie and Bruce). I love following your journey and can't wait to see more pictures. Grace is a doll, and Anna is a wonderful big sister...a natural!
Say hello to Margie and Bruce for us... and post more pictures!

Millie

Angela said...

Anna you are doing a wonderful job being the BIG sister; Olivia is so jealous and can't wait for you to come home so she can help hold, feed, change and play with Grace too! We are counting down the days until we see you at the airport! Keep posting the pictures...we are adoring over each one!
Love you all,
The Allen's

Auntie B said...

I love the pics of Anna and Grace together. Hopefully, the second night is going as well as the first.