Free at last May 23, 2012

Today was our first free day and we spent the morning at a local park. We took our lives in our hands by walking. I'm not sure what is worse.. crossing a street with all of the traffic or waking down the Sidewalk with hundreds of bikes and mopeds. We sat at picnic tables in the park and let the kiddos roam a little. The locals are very interested in our families and I was able to try a few Chinese phrases on a couple of families. Amazingly they understood! Jillian gets a little dismayed when ladies try to speak to her in Chinese. She just shrugs and smiles! as we were sitting, Laikyn decided to dig through one woman's purse and then strongly persuade another little girl to share her snacks. She got very tired and wanted me to carry her on the walk to McDonald's which was about fifteen minutes away. She is so heavy that I couldn't go that far with her, so she kicked and screamed,"Mama" most of the way. I felt bad for her, but it also did my heart good. After we got our food, we went back to the park to eat, so she perked up again. After eating, dad took her to feed pigeons and she stomped her foot and threw her milk bottle at them, causing them to fly everywhere! Never a dull moment with that girl! We finally got back for her nap and she slept an hour before having a night terror. At least that's what I think it is. She's been having them in the night too, but today was the worst yet. When she finally opened her eyes, she was fine. Tonight we went to the mall by taxi, which again felt like taking our life into our hands. It's kind of like Mr Toads Wild tide at Disney! We were able to pick up some food, diapers and a toy cell phone for her. I had a good laugh watching Rob try to pantomime diapers, peanut butter and bread to the worker. When we got back, Laikyn Hope got on her phone and said , "hi", which I guess is her third English word after Go and Mama.
She has been sick with a cold since getting her, but it hasn't slowed her much. Very runny nose, deep cough and sneezing. One of the dads in our group is a dr. So brought his scope and listened to her. He said she is clear and feels its all head congestion. we are giving her pedia care and hoping it doesn't go to an ear infection like with Jillian. It was kind of neat that we have a dr with this group and we had a pediatric nurse with Jillian's group.