We had a busy day...car rides to two different meeting places, lunch at KFC with new foods for Florie, an afternoon nap, and then down to the swimming pool to watch Baba and her big brothers swim. That is a LOT for a child, a toddler at that, who has been in a pretty rigid schedule with consistent foods and surroundings for almost 2 years. When Florie, Alex and I came back to the room after their swimming, she just lost it as soon as we walked in the room. Full on, awful sobbing....she clung to me with all her might. I know she was hungry,so I fed her bananas and warmed up noodles...bananas good, noodles, not the right ones. She was so upset! William and the boys came in and the two of us tried a variety of foods....even her favorites from yesterday were okay. I passed her to william since she likes to fall asleep on him, and ran out to get pizza for the boys so we could just eat in the room. The executive lounge had noodles last night that she liked, so we planned to try those again tonight. She did fall asleep, and he passed her back to me, and know she is sleeping in our bed. She is so beautiful. I am hoping she will sleep through till her 11 pm bottle....
It breaks our hearts to see her so sad. She is clinging to us for comfort, and I am very thankful that she feels she can do that. Tomorrow is when we go to Beihai, which will be a hard day. Good in the LONG run, very hard in the short.
we will keep using our united front with her....comforting as much as possible, trying to figure out WHICH foods she likes. I am sure she has eaten pretty much the same thing everyday for awhile, always cooked the same way, served the same way at the same time......and we are not privy to that information. Even if we were, how could we reproduce that? It is challenging enough to make formula bottles in a hotel room where the water is not safe to drink (Lindsay....think about how you can do this..I have a big bowl with some dish soap i bought here, then I use the hot pot water to rinse everything.....). It is so hard on her...new EVERYTHING. Not one single thing outside of her shoes is the same for her. NOTHING. we know this, and it gives us the strength and patience we so very need.
On the upside, she has quite a set of lungs, and so we feel like there is NO DOUBT that she is a BOGER.
Tomorrow we will be gone all day. It takes 2 1/2 hours to get to Beihai....and if we get to see her nanny, I am sure we will all be emotionally spent by the time we get home...so I may post late or not at all, depending on that sweet lil' one resting in our bed. The boys all passed out by 7, so I am sure they will be up early again!
Praying for friends in Arkansas..I do not know details about the storms but it sounded terrible....
Thank you again for your comments...we LOVE them!
Love,
Eve
2 comments:
Hope you get this before you leave. Ask the orphanage if anything was left with florie when she was abandoned. Sometimes the children are left with a note or something but it is not in the paperwork. Usually they won't let you take birth notes (if she has one) but you can have them copy the note. Make sure you get a copy of her finding ad. It is suppose to be included in her paperwork, but I just realized we never recieved Maggies. Maybe use the ergo at the orphange. That is what I used with Corinne when we went.
I can see that the circulation has been cut off Florie's little pinky finger already! She has her "Baba" wrapped around that little finger pretty tight! :)I think she has some others wrapped around her finger too by what we can see! Love seeing the pictures and hearing about how you all can already see her personality shining through. Praying that you all have found safe food for Alex and that you all have a better night sleep. You all are missing a lot of rain here in Nashville so your grass will be nice and green when you return!
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