We left Nanchang yesterday for Guangzhou (you might know it as Canton). As you can imagine I was nervous about the flight. It did not help that we rarely see the sky (so much fog/smog) and it was raining. However, it was a very smooth flight and it was only 1 hour and 10 minutes. There were at least 5 families from my group and then many others that were on the flight with their new children (all American families that are adopting must go the Guangzhou to complete all the American paper work). You might think that the flight could be very noisy with lots of crying, surprisingly it was a very quiet flight. Darci did fairly well on the flight, she got a little antsy at the end but she did great!! We also met up with the other 11 couples from my adoption agency that went to other provinces to get their children, so we have a fairly large group but it was great to re-meet them and their new children. Today was the Dr’s visit. It was chaos. So many people, American and Chinese trying to be seen by the doctors. There seemed to be little order to the madness but in the end it went pretty quickly. You saw 3 different MDs: one for the medical exam, one for the ears/nose/throat exam and one to do heights and weights. The MDs and nurses spoke little English-so a little hard to ask questions. However, that was OK with me as I really did not have any medical questions about Darci-she is doing great. The one concern I did have was she weighed now what they told me she weighed at 12 months (21lbs). While Darci is small she does not look malnourished, so I question the 12 month weight. Darci also eats really well, so she will catch up before I know it. After this was done we headed back to the hotel. Darci is really opening up, while there are still times that she cries (like any normal 15 month old), she will quiet quickly. Her personality is also coming through. She is a little goofy at times, she has the best smile!! We took a bath tonight and it was the first time I was brave enough to really wash her hair. She did great and never shed a tear (more than I can say about her mom when she was little). I gave her a bottle (she is very attached to her bottle) and tried to cuddle her to sleep. In the past she has not really let me cuddle her. Tonight she let me hold her until she fell asleep, it brought tears to my eyes, to think that she now trusts me enough to let me do this. I feel very lucky to be able to have this experience with such a special little girl. Well tomorrow Diane leaves for couple of days to go see the Terracotta Warriors in Xian. It will be an interesting experience for me, because it will be the first time for me to be on my own with Darci. We are to go off the a park tomorrow and then fill out MORE paperwork in the afternoon!!! It has been raining here in Guangzhou for about a week, so hopefully it will stop tomorrow so we can go to the park or I will have to go shopping!!
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