Chloe is Amazing

I know that every parent gushes over how cute and smart their child is, but Ted and I are astounded at how much Chloe is like Skylar. From her personality to her smile to her friendly nature… this is what Skylar was like four years ago. (Only Skylar never sat there and sucked on her own toes. My goodness this child is limber!) We complained at how long the wait was to get our child and kept wishing the process would speed up. But I have to say that there is a reason for everything in this world and our long, long wait for a referral was for a reason. This **is** our daughter. We had to wait so long because she wasn’t born yet.

We saw some local sites today, but we were apparently also quite the sight. While walking in the park a group of teenagers passed by us and one girl said “Hello, nice to meet you.” When we replied in kind the teenagers laughed as if they were excited to get a response. Shortly there after an elderly Chinese lady stopped us to talk. Her English was very good. She asked us if this was our daughter and where she was from. She told us Chloe is very lucky and we told her that we are the lucky ones. She wanted to know what we thought of China and we told her we liked it very much. How can we not? The people have been very friendly to us. China is very different from any other country I have been to, but it’s the people that make the country interesting. There is also thousands of year of traditions here and while the cities are evolving they are pound of there heritage.

We took a picture of Chloe with the dragon today. A Chinese lady came up to us with her baby and wanted us to take a picture with Chloe. Apparently this happens a lot.

This is a picture of our guide, Michael. We would be completely lost without him. He has been amazing. Saying he's our guide doesn't accurately capture everything he does for us and our group.

We think we have a better idea of why Chloe is not warming up to me as quickly as I would like. She doesn’t want ANY woman to hold her and in many cases touch her. When you compare how she response with other women to how she responds with me, heck, I’m her best friend. She will let me kiss her on the cheek, and she fed me Cheerios today so there is definitely even more progress. We simply think she is really grieving the loss of her foster mom and we are going to have to give her time.