Day Five: BMs and Pagodas

One of the interesting things about Chinese child rearing, is they don't teach crawling. So the girls have not spent much time on their stomachs. One funny experiment we tried was to see how Reagan would react if we put her on the capret (they have both been in the bed or the crib or on us almost exclusively). 

If you can't tell, she did not like it.  Tummy down, arms and legs up in the 'WTF?' pose.  Hilarious right?  But turns out, the joke was on us.  Literally seconds after the picture was taken, she farted and out came a little bit of poop.  How do you say 'to the potty mommy, stat' in Chinese?

As we wait for the girls passports, we continue to take in the city hot spots.  Yesterday we went to a giant pavilion that has been rebuilt like 28 times over the last 1,500 years. The last time was in '88 and its the symbol of the city.

Six stories in 100+ degree heat and 85% relative humidity left Dr. Mommy saying that she could feel the river of sweat down her back.  Our guide said that the Chinese sweat as well in the heat, but its just on the inside.  As you all mostly know, Mr Daddy doesn't do Facebook but I have to say, its been amazing when other adopting families come up to you out of the blue and say 'I know you.'  Dr. Mommy's September 2006 group has been amazing and we keep seeing them all over the place.

Finally, I have to give a huge shout out to our guide Evelyn (her English name).  She is an amazing amazing person has done everything more than we could have asked to help us on this leg of the journey.  From out hotels, to Gotcha Day, to government office day, to our tours, to diagnosing minor health ailments and then getting medicine, to teaching  some small amount of Mandarin to us, to...well...you name it.  When you combine caring, competency, intelligence, and passion, you get her.  Unbelievable...