We Made It to Guangzhou!

We made it to Guangzhou finally!  Our flight was a little delayed in Nanjing.  Karlye did excellent on the plane; however it looked like a child was for sure sitting on our row.  I feel sorry for whoever had to clean up after us.  There was torn magazine pieces, a thousand tiny pieces of muffin, and sticky rice stuck to the seats.  Hey, whatever it takes to have as little meltdowns as possible, right?  She actually had her own seat, and do you think she sat in it very much?  Yeah right!  She walked back and forth between Nathan and I for just about the entire flight. 

Karlye has had a really good day today!  She is really starting to warm up to Nathan!  She will let him hold her hand while she walks, she will walk to him, she will let him feed her, and she will lean over to him to give him kisses.  She is definitely less hesitant when he attempts to hold her, so I think in a matter of days, she will allow this as well!  I sure hope so!  I definitely did not do enough arm workouts before we left.  I will definitely have earned some muscles before we get home!  The carrier has been wonderful, but it still takes some strength.

Karlye is now walking by herself around the hotel room!  We do stand close by when she is walking, as her feet tend to give her troubles at times, and we would rather her not face plant while we are here in China.  No emergency room visits here please!  She still prefers to crawl, but walking is becoming more of a preference each day.  For those of you who do not know, her feet are a little worse than we expected, but it does not seem to be stopping this little girl!  They do not have the proper bracing to maintain the correct position of the feet, so therefore they return to their original position as time goes by.  It is similar to wearing a retainer after having braces.  They did give us some braces for her feet, but she either pulls them off (imagine that!) or they fall off because they do not fit correctly. 

Karlye is eating us out of this hotel room!  She eats anything we eat and just can't seem to get enough.  We have heard this is typical for children who have come from orphanages, so we just keep letting her eat.  She does eventually stop when she gets full.  She absolutely loves Cheerios and Gerber Puffs, but the problem is that she would eat the entire container.  Don't take them away from her or it will cause a MAJOR meltdown!  We had one of these meltdowns on the bus yesterday on our way home from touring.  Whew, boy is it hard to deal with a meltdown in a very limited space!  Hello parenting!  14 hour flight, here we come!

And for those of  you who laughed at us when we safety proofed our house before we left, well, we may need to do more!  She has already found the plug outlets and cords over every square foot of this hotel room.  We are moving furniture and hiding things right and left!  Oh, and germs, well we have just had to get over it!  She is trying to eat carpet fuzz off the floor and any food particle that she sees on the floor goes in the mouth as well.  Yesterday, she was trying to eat her dropped Cheerios off the booth in the dumpling restaurant.  I know that does not sound that bad, but you should have seen how filthy the booths were.  She then proceeded to try to feed these Cheerios to Nathan and I, yuck!  By the way, Chinese dumplings are excellent.   

           

Unpacking as quick as we can pack!



Yummy, Tide stick!




I love looking at myself in the mirror.



Cheese!



Beautiful girl!





Brushing my teeth!




Sorry Mama, but I am not a big fan of hair bows.




Taking my shoes off.



Crawling everywhere!



Really warming up to my Daddy!




Let's go Daddy!




I really want to get to that computer!





Blowing bubbles with Daddy.





Licking my fingers after popping the bubbles!



First plane ride!