It has been a wonderful few days!! Jianna is making great progress each day!! She is such a sweetie and it is nice to see her personality starting to really show. Her first English word was "up." She says some Chinese words too, her favorite word is zi chen (I think I spelled it right), which means goodbye. She understands much of what we say already as she is like a "sponge" and just absorbs every word. When I tell her to chew something well, she knows what I am saying and exaggerates her chewing.
We had our consulate appointment yesterday and received Jianna's visa last evening!!! That means that she is now cleared to come to the United States. When our airplane touches down in Detroit Michigan, she will be a United States citizen!!! Our visa was supposed to come today and since it came so early, we were able to leave earlier for Hong Kong. What a nice surprise that was! How does that help? Insead of arriving in Hong Kong at midnight tonight, we arrived about 2:45 P.M. and makes a relaxing stay at our newest hotel before our long journey home.
Thank you to all of you who are praying for us!!
Jianna has cut two molars this week, so she has been through quite a bit over the last two weeks. Some days she is really at ease and is upbeat and playful and then some days are a little more challenging. Today has been a pretty good day. She wakes each morning a little more at ease. Jianna gets really upset if I lay down though. She doesn't throw a temper tantrum but looks really serious, almost frightened and breathes heavily like she is going to cry. My guess would be that she is not used to seeing any adults lay down. They were at work when she saw them. She enjoys playing with Julia, Jacquelyn and Joshua.
She did GREAT on the 4 hour ride from Guangzhou to Hong Kong this afternoon! Please continue to pray for our flights home. We will be traveling for a total of 26 hours!!!! Another adoptive Mom told me right before she left for her trip home, "Just remember, you do not know any of the people on the flight and you will never see them again. LOL!!! Jianna cried virtually the entire trip from Beijing to Guangzhou, but she was just beginning to bond with us AND she was teething, so we are hopeful our trip home will be a blessing to those traveling with us. ; )
Thank you again to all of you who have been praying for us, please pray that our flight from Detroit to Newark tomorrow evening isn't cancelled due to Hurricane Irene.
Love,
Kirstie
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