Day 2 with Jade

Hi Everyone!!
We had a bit of a rough day yesterday.  Alex was still
recovering, and we had "BinBin¨ in bed with us for the
first night and she got unsettled more than every hour,
so Alex would settle her again.  I was up half way
during the night vomiting and it continued until the
morning. We then had to get everyone showered dressed
and breakfasted and organised and meeting the guide by
8.45am.
Needless to say we were late and stressed, I was sick,
and the boys felt quite harassed. We had a day of office
visits and formal interviews and photographs for visas
and passports.  We were glad to get settled back to
the hotel and we made it back in time for the next stage
of my illness.  Although we still had a room move ahead
of us (our third).  Apparently a King Bed and Non-Smoking
floors did not translate very well.  Saturday night
found us all on a smoking floor, and my asthma played
up and Alex had a rough night with it too.  The boys
did not seem to mind it.  On complaining for the 2nd
time and with a bit of help from our guide, they said
they would get Alex and I a room (twin beds still) on a
non-smoking floor, but the boys would need to stay where
they were for now.
Due to my asthma, and the baby coming we agreed to the
move.  I felt like such a bad mother being 3 floors away
from the boys but they did not mind at all. On Monday
they advised via our guide that we could move to a King
Bed room on the same floor, freeing our current room for
the boys.  We are all settled now, with a cot in our
room and a trolley bed for Liam in the boys room, all
on the same floor, Yay!
Last night, we put Jade into the cot, and she slept
from 8pm until 7am this morning.  We found that she does
get unsettled (some bad dreams? Tosses her head from
side to side, she has a bald patch on the back of her
head), but they are in very short bursts and settles
herself quickly if she is left.  We all got a very good
night sleep!
Today no-one is ill (seems to be a 24 hour thing) and we
went on a bus to visit some 1,000 year old traditional
villages.  It seemed funny to see men in suits there,
but they actually live/work in the city and are coming
home to their family for the Spring Festival.  I bought
some local wine from the villages 4.5 rmb ($1) for
500ml, very sweet, tastes like Muscat.
Apparently constipation can be an issue with these
babies initially, but our first day with Jade gave us
4 dirty nappies so no problem there!!  She is drinking
5 bottles a day and 5 small meals of noodles, congee,
fruit in fact anything we can get our hands on,  She
just loves her food!!  The boys are able to interact
with her much more now and they adore her chuckles. We
had lots of laughs feeding her noodles in the bouncing
bus today as she sucks them up like a vacuum cleaner.
Whenever she wakes from sleeping in our arms, she seems
very happy to see that we are still here, she is not
unsettled at all.
The "clothing police¨ have been out in force today.
She gets squeezed by strangers trying to see how many
layers she has on.  She had a singlet, t-shirt, tights,
socks, one piece padded outfit, Jumper with hood,
Trousers, Coat withhood, Beanie (under the 2 hoods) and
we still get told off all the time!!
Their children are padded up like little Eskimos here,
so we are going out tonight to Wal-Mart specifically to
buy more clothing, and some big padded stuff.  We are
visiting the orphanage in Yichun tomorrow (Yay. We
finally got permission after yet another donation) and
I want them to see that she is well cared for.
Thankyou to everyone who has sent us your best wishes
and congratulations.
Sorry I have not been more forthcoming with my replies,
but my time on the internet is limited due to Joshs time
online, and with everything else going on too.  & Last
night I was just still too sick to send anything.
Cheers,
Cindy
p.s. Alex told me this morning that he had worried that
it would take time to bond with a non-biological child
and that fear has now totally evaporated.
I think you would call it instant bonding!  Even just
talking about how he feels about her makes him teary...