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Sorry I have not posted before now, but as you all know life with a baby.....
We waited in our room yesterday until about 12:10pm and our guide called to say that Shiloh was here, only right now we are calling her Hongmei. She came to our room with the Orphanage Director, a Nanny and a driver. She was fine at first and would walk as long as she stayed right with the director. Mom got to watch the whole first hour with her on Skype. She would hide behind the director and shake her head "no" when I aked her in Mandarin if I could hold her. While the Director and all were here, she would say: Mama, Baba, YeYe for all three of our names. She put a sticker on each of us and would bring us a toy when told to. Chuck and I took turns completing paperwork which our guide Cindy made easy for us. (The big paperwork comes this morning.) The director gave us some art work and pictures of Hongmei which are just priceless. She also returned to us the 2 cameras that we sent and the cameras for a friend. She gave us the pillow, blanket, outfit, and panda backpack. We have a pile of paperwork in Chinese, Cindy said she would help us interpret later. When the staff left, which happened quickly Hongmei cried hysterically for over an hour. It was incredibly hard for us, as we knew how afraid she must be. The funny thing was right in the middle of the screaming she stopped and said, "mama" and pointed to her runny nose for me to wipe it. So I think they have rehearsed her on who we are. Finally as she calmed down, we sat on the bed holding her and she let me give her water...she was so sweaty and tired from the trip and the crying. Then she also let Chuck hold and feed her. At one point she sat in Chucks lap and cried big silent tears....these are the worst. We tried getting her to sleep, but I think her two hour nap in the car had done the job. So finally we ended up on the floor playing with her and amazingly her personality began to emerge. She loves the "my little pony" with the brush. She laughs when the brush tangles in the pony's hair and she let our big giggles, that were followed by incredible belly laughs. She made eye contact and interacted with both of us. She was eating a chicken nugget by breaking off little bites her self and she thought it was funny to put them in her mouth quickly for us to laugh. She has this little way of cutting her eyes at you while we play, so funny. She kicked the ball with Chuck around the room. We filled an entire DVD just all the playing and her laughing much of the time. Later when my Dad returned to our room, she would take the little pony brush and try to brush all our hair. We have noticed that she eats every speck of food and is worried if she drops something. She does not like to be dirty on her hands or to have anything out of it's place. We stayed in our room the entire day with her, until evening, we thought we would walk her to the lobby to let her see the water. She let Chuck hold her but once there she began to cry...just not sure I suppose, so back in our room she was fine and playing again. Hongmei is so small, if she weighs 20 pounds I would be shocked. She is a good eater, but will eat all we give her, so we just let her snack and have little by little. She didn't like oatmeal so we will try grits later, but I am sure she will eat off the breakfast bar today. Right now she is having a few dry cheerios. This morning she is quiet and as yesterday seems to prefer me, although she doesn't mind Chuck feeding her. She is potty trained on number 1 and 2 and she slept all night until 5am here!!! She will not let us take her clothes off, but we need to get her a bath. (Only we have a shower wand and not a tub....we'll see how it goes.) She has a few misquito bites and she will show me and I rub them and I will say so sorry and she loves that. She is very smart about things but I think unsure of what she should or should not do with us. She would take her bread and a french fry and her pony and either hide them behind her back, wanting us to try to get them, or hide them in her dress and laugh when I acted like "where are they". So we have made it through the first moments and are really enjoying her. We have seen the great wall and lots of other amazing things but so far this is the best part of our trip. Now that awful flight suddenly seems worth it.