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Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Chilling out and FAMILY bonding

We have been really chilling out both yesterday and so far today at the hotel. It has been big family bonding time.
A little bit more about Gabi. It appears that her caretakers really took great care of our Gabi. She is a very happy baby, only cries when she is hungry, tired and falling asleep. She now looks for us when she does not have us in her line of vision, grasps everything, puts everything in her mouth (believe there is some teething going on, and good thing I brought Hylands gel and teething tabltets), eats really well (milk, puffs, congee, fish and chicken soup, rice and some noodles) and loves music. Seriously loves music, and in fact is quite the dancer. She is in love with her brother and looks for him quite a bit. Sebastian is also in awe of his little sister, and in fact sometimes I think he believes he is almost like her dad. She grasps toys and takes them from one hand to the other with no problem, turns from one side to the other really fast, and have seen her a couple of times crawling a bit to get to a toy. Since yesterday, she also gabs the puffs herself and takes them to ger mouth. In short, we believe that she is really moving along. We are totally in love. And as to her personality, she is quite the attention grabber.
Sebastian is going through a bit of a difficult phase. Many changes being thrown at him, and all in all he is taking it all in stride. I think he is a bit jealous, and in fact yesterday and I sometimes feel a big lump in my heart from seeing him trying to make sense of it all, trying to understand that he is not the only baby in our house anymore. Thankfully he loves his sister, and I know it will get a lot better. He is the sweetest boy.
Tomorrow we leave for the last leg of our trip. Flying to Guangzhou, where Gabi will get her physical, and we will have to go to the US Consulate for the last consular appointments prior to leaving for Puerto Rico on September 6.
Therefore,we will leave Nanchang, which is our daughter's province. It makes one sad in the sense that it is where she was born and I know that she will be leaving everything she has known in her short life behind. We have been buying things to give her in the future. We really thank her birth mother, and wish her the best wherever she is. I am sure that your decision was very hard for you. Just know that we will always love your birtth daughter, who will already feel is part of our hearts and could not imagine not being a part of our family. Thanks for this immense gift. We will cherish her always.
p.d. As you can see Gabriela has a bit of a punk do. No matter how you brush her hair it stands up. LOL

2 comments:

  1. Great post Odemaris! We'll be in Hon Kong in 24 hrs. Best to you and the Family

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  2. Josh and Kelly, Thanks for the comments. We wish you the best trip ever. In Nanchang you will notice that the internet is a bit crappy, but of course everything takes second place to that bundle of joy that you are going to meet, namely Ms. Amy. We are so ecstatic with our Gabi,who is a perfect fit for our family, and Seba just loves his sister. Big hugs and safe travels.

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