Our World Revolves Around Sophie

We have video!

The ladies are napping again, and now I have had the chance to start grabbing and processing video for you all!

I'm not able to watch it from China - even with the tricks I'm using to be able to see Blogspot blogs (ours and others) the videos aren't available to see - so please let me know if this works

This is from just before her nap - we started putting some lotion on her cheeks and "nubby" - her right arm end - and she started helping us. She is very very smart - she mimics us quickly and loves to do things herself...



Also from earlier today - she can "walk" if we help her...



More from today (okay, the tape that I captured first only has stuff from today and yesterday on it) - Sophie is very kind and will share her Cheerios with us...



Stacy found one of her tickle spots - her laugh and smile are amazing!



We walked down the local pedestrian street today, called China Street (a lot like Nicolet Mall in Minneapolis), to try and find some local food. We found a place called Mr. Lee's California Beef Noodle King USA (seriously!) and decided to give it try. Needless to say - nobody spoke a word of English, and I had to order our lunch by pointing to the menu pictures. We had two huge noodle soup bowls, and a chicken thigh that had been cut into strips perpendicular to the bone (yes, it was bone-in). Half of the chicken had a pepper sauce on it, the other half an onion sauce - both were very good, though it was hard to eat with chopsticks, and you had to eat around the bone. Stacy didn't care for it too much, but we had bought some bread yesterday, and brought from home some Jif peanut butter, so Stacy didn't starve :)

Sophie is so amazing. We have been blessed to our very core with her. She's smart, funny, happy, and we love her so very much. I pray that we can be the parents, the home, that she deserves. We will do our very best, and when that's not enough, God will help us. She is so wonderful. We are all three very happy.

That's all for now - I'll give another update either in the morning when I wake up, or later tonight if I get time to get some more video up.

Larry