Golden Times Hotel Ji'an

... is a published poet, 2 books in total.

We grab a signed copy of her book, it is in chinese. However we notice a few words of English, PJ Harvey, Nirvana. Leo explains she learnt english by listening to music and watching Independent films.

A good journey and interesting people.

现在再 见

... bubble tea!! The only bad thing is that I got sick and have been a little tired lately. I also started learning overglaze this week it's very complicated and time consuming. I have to sit and mix one color for over an hr. Kind of crazy I think but i'm doing it!! I only have one more week left here and it's hard to think about coming home when I have so much work left to do. I miss everyone though and I can't wait to see them!

... to climb down off of something. For all of my girls born in 1970, we are dogs. No offense! This means we are extremely loyal (true, I think) and . . . dumb. Hmph! Adam is a pig. (Ha! Ha!) Apparently dogs and pigs make the best marriages! His sign symbolizes riches. (I guess there's still time for that!) He says it's because he's "riche en amour". I'd like for this blog to be a bit more about our observations of China and Nanchang. I'm sorry that I ...

... on whereas in the room with us she's a going concern. She doesn't stop rolling around, and crawling over us, and laughing. Can you tell we very much enjoy being parents? She fights going to sleep because either she doesn't want to miss anything or because she wants to make sure we are still here. She's the floppiest thing and is so flexible. Earlier she had her toes in her mouth. Is that normal?! Believe it or not, there is still more to tell you, but it's now 9:20 on Friday ...

... la!!! Time for bed for me. It's my turn to feel out of sorts, so I'll hand the reins over to Adam. Ciao! Hi all, Won't write much because my bed is calling. I love being a dad. It is incredible how quickly I have fallen head over heels for this little girl. It breaks my heart to think about having to leave her for whole days at a time when I go back to work. My favorite time of the day is getting her to sleep in my arms before we put her down for the night or for ...

... that certain questions were asked. The guides interpreted for us. The nannies stood behind the director who answered all the questions herself. I wanted to speak directly with our nanny but it was touchy. I managed to get her name though and address so I can send her photos. I also tried to give her the gift, but all the gifts go to the director. Who knows if our nanny will actually get it. What a racket. She did tell us that Wen Yi is the ...

... she is constantly distracted. Hopefully she'll settle down when there is only The Shag to worry about. We had more paperwork to do in the afternoon but it looks like most of that is settled now until we get to Beijing on Saturday. This was nice because we got some play time with our daughter. She's laughing more now and is less serious. She's a big grump, just like Daddy, when she wakes up from her nap. I played fun games with her and at the end of the day, after bath and diaper ...

... for these kids; she wakes screaming but never really wakes and falls back into a slumber very quickly. So at 5 am we gave her a bottle. Yummy. Then we held her and she investigated us! By 6 we knew it was time to just give up and get up, so we sang to her. She likes our rendition of Rudolf (I'm the back up singer and finger snapper). She clapped and swayed and thoroughly enjoyed it. She is in a really good mood ...

... instead but no way. Madame wants nothing to do with it. So we'll let that go for awhile. She pees each time we change her. Perfect huh? We just get her bum wiped and zincofaxed and then pee, oh, on the changing pad and on our friend's bed who was kind enough to show me how to give her a suppository. Adam is doing an awesome job. I must admit that I'm a wee wee bit jealous because she absolutely adores him. I'm the wipe her bum, get the snot out of her nose, pack ...

... want to adopt this girl" ****. I thought we did that already?!! Lots of signatures and fingerprints later, I got to come back up. Tired is an understatement. As I write this, I can't even remember what happened then. We changed her for bed; she screamed. Apparently she hates being changed. She screams and screams! So let me tell you a bit about her. She's so thin. We need to get some meat on this girl. She's got a long body, so might be tall (Chinese tall, that is!). She ...