First Visit To Church

Sunday morning in Spokane with the little girl wearing white. Ming looked lovely on her first visit to church. She was excellent during worship...I think she enjoyed the music a lot because her Daddy was playing guitar. She probably would have done fine during the preaching, but she began to talk a little bit so I took her out and hung out in the 'parents with kids' room. Ming sat on my lap for awhile nibbling on her teething cookie, and she also like playing with one of the toys.

We are all settling into life in Spokane. Although it seems a lot longer than just a few days that we've been home, things are getting better each day. Ming was fairly agitated the first couple of days at home. She had a lot of unfamiliar people sticking their face in hers talking in a language that she didn't really understand. And she seems to be the one having the hardest time adjusting to the 15 hour time change. But when you think about it, she has lived her whole life (with a very routine schedule in the orphanage) with her days being our nights and our days being her nights. So needless to say, she's got things a little mixed up right now. Titus calls her, "Our little nocturanal baby." Last night was her best yet. She didn't really get to sleep until midnight, but she slept straight for about 7 hours. We're making progress.
When Ming woke up from her nap today she had a temperature of 102 degrees. The poor little girl was feeling pretty punky. She just layed on the bed all glassy eyed playing with her Children's Tylenol bottle. She has a couple of new teeth coming in, so we figure that her runny nose and fever is all part of the new teeth gig. It's been so long since we've had babies that we can hardly remember how all this works!

Ming is adatpting well to her big brothers, Nate and Titus. She has no problem with either one of them holding her and hanging out with her. At first she seemed a bit leery of such big guys. In fact, when we returned home both Linda and I felt like Nate and Titus had grown significantly after spending two weeks in China with such short people. The boys are very gentle with Ming and enjoy kissing her.