Day 2 TianJin >>with Robyn! August 31

First we want to thank everyone for all the email wishes and prayers. I want to apologize right now if we don't reply right away. it's a bit nuts with the running around we need to do for paperwork and stuff. Things will slow down for a bit before we travel to Guangzhou (Gwang-joe) then it will be crazy when we have our USA stuff to do. i"m inserting some HTML hoping that'll put paragraph breaks in the post. if you don't see any breaks but the occasional < br> .. that's what that is...I'm attaching some pictures from yesterday and today. From today you will see just how oppressive the smog/pollution is here. That shot with the TV tower was taken today.. we could not see that tower from our window yesterday or this morning. It is truly awful. Beijing is not as bad as here. At least they are trying to reduce the pollution.Ok.. So she slept really well. We woke her at about midnight for a feeding and she went back to sleep quite easily.. We had her sleep between two pillows on one of the beds and I slept around here while David had the other bed. Around 4:15am she cried out and I reached over to let her know I was there.. then she settled then another bit of cry and ... phew!! a load. So I decided to change her then. Glad I did.. somehow she pooped so that nothing was on her!! one good thing about a small kid and diapers that are a bit big for her! cleaned her up.. she was a little pissed but then she finally settled back to sleep.I woke up at 5:45, our alarm was set for 6am.. we all started to stir.. David and I took turns showering.. she fussed a bit when I left the room but Dad got it covered! She seems ok with either one of us, which is GREAT! We had to meet George in the Lobby at 8:25 or something like that. **side note** George is great but it's funny the times he has us meet him. Once it was 4:10, another 2:25, or 8:05! ** So we did pretty dang good our first try of getting ourselves ready, a kid ready and fed and down to breakfast by our mark of 7:45am. I gave us lots of time because, truly it was our first time doing all that!! You can see how much she liked breakfast.. so not only did she polish off a bottle of formula she had some of my boiled egg, bits of apple cherrios things and she LOVES pancakes! Our first stop was one official building. sorry all these names and stuff I forget. There we ran into that same gentleman and his son he was adopting, I think I mentioned him yesterday. Anyway we saw the orphanage gal again and we signed more papers, but a red fingerprint on it and one from Robyn. Then we had a family picture taken. and more official papers. Next stop was another civil office where we signed yet more papers and told them we would take care of her and not beat her and all that! Like we could do anything to that cutie!!Back to the hotel, where our baby bird, that's what we call her because of the way she opens her mouth as soon as we have the spoon loaded with food! She is sooo tolerant. I mean we were late for food and she didn't fuss.. just ate like a horse! Then we did another first today,, FIRST BATH!! I think this was her first ever.. It sorta seemed that way. Especially the way she would look at the water on her hands and splash splash splash! I had to sit in the tub with her.. it's a very deep tub and a bit scary so I just sat behind her and we both poured water over her as she splashed and played with her stacking cups. Which is her favorite toy and she really likes the mini pack of Snoopy tissues!We were gonna put her down for a nap but then George called, time for lunch! So we went to Ancient Street. Which is renown here and even Chinese folks from other provinces visit there. We had Baoxi.. yum.. They are dumplings with meat or veggie in them.. Then we had Tomato Egg Drop soup. Which is just would you would think it would be and it was DEELISH!! So much better than just egg drop from back home! We treated George to lunch and he told me his recipe for the soup. It's EASY! I'll share with ya'll soon. Maybe post it at a later date!After Ancient street we headed to Walmart!! It looks pretty much the same just smaller and stuff is even cheaper! We spent about $69 US on a stroller, a baby carrier, food, juice a sponge.. really need one, snacks, a small outfit for her, a instant read thermometer and a few other things I can't remember. oh some bananas.. man they were yummy. Figure she'd like some too.So through ALL of that she never once fussed.., i mean we were pushing it with no nap. She snacked on some dumpling at the restaurant but otherwise she just sat in our arms and watched stuff go on. she held onto the sponge inthe store and was finally starting to make some cute noises!! She "yelled" at when we finally got her back to the room. She fussed a bit and then we gave her her cups.. she was lying on the bed playing and then .. was out. She's been sleeping for about 90mins.. hoping to get her close to 2hrs. Then I'll feed her. I'm sure she'll be hungry.So there's today. Not sure what we are going to do for dinner. Nothing is close by.. and very little english is spoken here. we might just get someting from the hotel and snack and get to bed. early. There's nothing for us tomorrow. We may just hang out here and bond with her some more. We tried to get her to ride in the stroller at the store and she would have NO part of that. She likes to see or feel us against her. So we may play with it and see if we can get her used to it. George has all the paperwork stuff tomorrow. He'll drop something off afterwards. I think it's her Chinese passport? again it's all sorta confusing. I just know we got a very important one today that says she's ours in the eyes of China!! wahoo! Then George has to get back to Beijing to meet 10 more families then a gal named Michelle will be our guide for the rest of our time here. Thursday is a true tour day get packed up to fly on Friday day. Here's hoping the smog is lighter. We did notice it got a bit better this afternoon. That picture of that TV tower.. we couldn't see that from our window in the morning! And I just turned to look and it's gone again. I'll get a shot and post it too so you can see how thick the smog is. Well gotta go. She'll be waking soon and David is now napping! fun fun. I did a happy cry. I can't believe how lucky we are... i mean with family helping us out by watching birdies at home and the wonderful people here helping us, to Robyn. She's a gift from God. A true blessing and answer to our prayers. We are truly blessed. (yes count how many times I used truly in this post!)ZaiJian~Donna