Reflections

Daddy is showing Sophie how to use the computer.

Larry has been doing such a great job at posting. He thought it important for me to share some of my thoughts too. So here they are. Its been pretty uneventful today; except for playing with Sophie of course. We have been going a little stir crazy sitting in the hotel room. Hopefully we will be able to get outside to go somewhere or at least take a walk. As Larry said, it was pretty awesome to see Sophie not wanting to go to her previous caregivers yesterday. Sophie had a foster grandma soon after she was first brought to the orphanage. She called her "Nana". Our guide Lynn said that Nana cried for 3 days before she had to let Sophie go. There were tears of joy too she said. Since she didn't really spend much time in the orphanage, we opted not to visit it. We will try to keep in touch with the directors who can then send pictures to her Nana. All of the officials (orphanage director, adoption center director, and others who were there) really cared about Sophie. The director said that when she was sick, since Nana couldn't take her, he drove Sophie to the doctor himself. They told us that they were happy to see her go to a good home and they thought we were a nice family. We told them we could tell she had been very well taken care of. It was hard for them to let her go.
It appears our little Sophie is a genius. All parents think that don't they? :) She is a master at imitation. She only has to see it done a couple of times, even if it was a few hours ago, to repeat it herself. Larry and her have a new game. Instead of "give me ten" its "give me six". She is so happy. Unfortunately it has been hard to capture a smile on film. We did get it on video though.
Nothing new to report as of yet. We are really looking forward to joining up with our travel group again. It was really hard to say good bye to them in Beijing. Hope to have more to share soon.