Shopping and a Walk in the Park
We couldn’t sleep past 5AM so I decided to get up and add the photos from yesterday. We have realized that the only time to work on the website is around 5 AM…ugh. The internet doesn’t work at all in the day time or very rarely. Hudson had another wonderful night. He didn’t want to go to sleep last night so he stood up in his bed looking around. We think he had too much Birthday Cake. We woke him up around 8:30 AM, after 11 and one-half hours of sleep. Sweet!
Today we visited the Apolo Department Store. It was a really nice mall basically with really nice clothes, books, jewelry and appliances. It really is a mall instead of a department store. It is so interesting figuring out how much Yuan would equal a US dollar. The sales ladies came up to us and we both would talk in sign language. Daphne gave us a print out of phrases in Chinese and English to show the sales ladies. She gave us a necklace to wear that read something like, “We have adopted our baby from XiangYin Orphanage and we will love him always” so they would understand why we have this adorable Chinese baby in my Snuggly. Daphne thinks of everything for us. They were all trying to be so helpful as we would talk in sign language. We bought some cute books for Alaina and gifts for the boys. We decided to wait on Guangzhou for the real shopping since we don’t have room in our luggage right now. In some ways, I was really surprised at the nice quality of clothing and books. It was such a fun experience to share with our travel group.
On the way back, Hudson loves to look out the bus window. He has never been outside the orphanage courtyard so everything is a wonderful, new experience for him. We are enjoying every minute of it.
After returning to the room, Hudson took a two hour nap. In the afternoon, we rode a bus to a nearby park. It was beautiful by the river. Many older people were there playing Chinese Chess. Grandparents were encouraging their grandbabies to walk. It is so funny how they have them dressed in 3 layers of clothing. Lots of young couples were walking and holding hands. It was such a nice time to really see the culture and the people. Joel carried Hudson in the Snuggly the entire time. Joel is not his favorite “nanny” right now so we made good progress today.
After the park, the group decided to return to the same Chinese restaurant (in our hotel) as last night. Fifty-six hours after Hudson was placed in our arms, we were able to see a glimpse of his personality. They brought out the fancy highchairs, the same as last night. It was so cute all the babies sitting around the table in their chairs. All of a sudden, the whole group shouts, “Look at that big grin!" We didn’t take any of our cameras. All of a sudden, Hudson comes to life. For 56 hours, he has been quiet and very serious. The highchair didn’t have a belt on it so here he was standing on his knees. Too cute. He ate the whole time we were there, anything I gave him. After we returned to the room, we were dressing him for bed. I had tried to tickle him before like the nannies did and no response. Well, tonight he laughed out loud. What a precious sound. We are not sure exactly what happened to encourage him to show us his personality. I’m tickled to see just a glimpse of who he is and can’t wait for more.
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