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Anna has played a couple days in the local park and has made friends with several local Chinese children. Grace has had diaper changes by Anna even if it is a little different than being changed by the Nanny pros. Anna was the photographer at the Medical Clinic and did a great job. Grace had to do the harder work of being examined, but she calmed down nicely after a scream or two about the ear check. Grace weighted 20.2 lbs and was 28.5 inches long. I wonder if the weight is right since at the update from her orphange at 8.5 months we weighted 17.6lbs.

It is fun to see the three girls in our group start to interact. They definitely know each other from the orphanage. I posted a couple pictures of the other 2 families we are with right now. Margie and Bruce's little girl, Ella, has been sick and is still not eating or drinking much, even though her fever has lifted. April and Dan's girl, Katie, doesn't like to eat right now- maybe the shock of everything. Our Grace eats well, but she lost a lot of her bottle after falling asleep in the crib tonight when she was coughing. Grace has a strong gag reflex so we have to be careful. Grace is becoming even more playful and will crawl over to me and put her arms up to be held. She likes to be held by all three of us - but I am the favorite right now. Lucky me! Grace especially likes Anna to read her books, talk back and forth with her, and to blow raspberries. Our family is bonding and loving each all day long. We finished most of the paperwork we needed to do today so now we wait for things to process as we do some sightseeing. It was just a week ago that we left for China and our lives have been changed forever. One more week and we are home!!

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