Look at what she can do!

So, now I know why she has been eating and sleeping non-stop!

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Who needs the gym???

So, I used to struggle doing twenty reps with a five pound weight. Well, now I can do at least a hundred reps with a seventeen pound weight! She wants up. She wants down. She wants up. She wants down. You get the picture! And who needs squats? Certainly not me anymore....

But how could you resist this cute little face? Not me that's for sure!



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We had our appointment at Children's

And she seems to be doing very well health-wise. She actually gained about two pounds since she was weighed at the clinic in Guangzhou a little over a week ago! Yeah! We are waiting for test results now. We should know this week.


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This is what we all feel like

That's Emmie asleep on the floor. We are so exhausted from this darn jet-lag that it's almost impossible to stay awake sometimes.


Sorry, I thought at this posted last week! I don't know what happened.....
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Let's revisit car seats...

Let me tell you a little something about car seats. They've changed. A. Lot. For one thing, they are not even called car seats. They are now called child safety seats... And it takes at least a degree in engineering to install one. Thank goodness my husband is so technically minded. It only took him 1 1/2 hours to figure out how to install it. I was a great help to him - I held the flash light..... This thing is latched to my car in places I didn't even know existed. And let me tell you, this seat ain't going nowhere! In the good old' days, you threw the seat into the car, put the kid in, put the seatbelt over the both of them, and you were good to go!
All of this leads us to our next huge purchase - another child safety seat for Ray's car. Here we go again!




You know, these seats are going to have to go with the cars when we trade them in. You couldn't pay me enough to try to figure out how to uninstall them. They are now latched, hooked, and strapped to just about everything in the car. Aside from cutting all the straps, which would render them useless, they are there to stay.



O.K. Off my soapbox. Now back to your regularly scheduled programming!
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All dressed up and nowhere to go...

We actually got everyone up and ready for church -a miracle in itself! Ray went out to warm up the car and discovered that my car wouldn't start. No problem, we'll just take Ray's car. Big surprise - his car wouldn't start either! What are the odds That BOTH of our cars would be dead at the same time? After a visit from our new best friend, Max, we were good to go.






Ray headed out to purchase a new battery, and I took Betsy and Emmie out for a ride, just to make sure that it would start again. Betsy did well for her first ride in her newly installed carseat.

Betsy really seems to be doing well. She plays on the floor right next to me and seems happy. The big girls just dote on her. MeiMei is loving being a big sister!



She is just so stinking' cute! You just want to eat her up!


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12 loads of laundry later...

And 6 empty suitcases! Only two more suitcases left. I'm exhausted! Unfortunately, so is everyone else. Jet lag is horrible! Ray says that he gives himself a day for every hour difference. So that means, let's see... Multiply by 12, carry the 7, find the reciprocal.... I think that it means that we'll be tired for a while.

We are trying to get to church tomorrow, so we realized that we have to install the carseat. I think they make it confusing on purpose!





I don't think Betsy is very happy about the carseat...


Now we just have to get up tomorrow. I hope we can do it! So far the earliest we've been able to get up has been around 11.



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