Sept 4th- Saturday!

Ok.. First we headed down for breakfast. Oh man.. Ok.. can I just tell you how much we love the White Swan. The last hotel was a businessman's hotel.. this is more of a resort hotel. The breakfast buffet, included in our rate, is awesome!! So much to pick from. From American classics to some nifty Chinese type stuff. Oh it was great.. even prosciutto!! Yum yum!!! Afterwards we had to meet our guide Grace in the lobby to get some of our US paperwork filled out. She drops it off for us. Then it was a short walk to get Robyn's Visa picture taken. Then a few blocks for the Medical exam. That was painless.. ENT said she had no ear infection, just ear wax.. and she turned and responded to sound.. another DR. checked her parts… and tried to get her to sit up. She wasn't too happy with him. It timed out perfectly that we had a moment to change her diaper!! She weighs just 14lbs.. and everyone comments on how tiny/petite she is. And compared to some of the other kids around here.. she is. I did notice that there are a lot of petite, even for Chinese folks, in her town. The Chinese folks here are not as petite.

After the exam.. we headed back to the room for her nap. Yea that wasn't workin. We've learned.. that any nap counts as a nap. Whether it's 15mins or 2 hrs. those dang powernaps get us. And the fact that being in a hotel and having to be places at certain times totally blows any attempt at a schedule. <sigh>
We got back and David took the laundry to be done and get some snacks and lunch. I tried to no avail to get her to nap. David was gone a while. He came back with some Thai food. Oh man it was delicious. The, I guess it was Japanese, Eggplant and beef.. yummo. And some lamb chops..

She did finally fall asleep at about 4-5pm.. yea I know.. bad idea. But we woke her later for a feeding and that seemed to work.. sorta. We went for a walk around the resort to check out the pretty pool area and stuff. Helped some. She finally got back to sleep around 9 or 10.. don't remember. Then around 3:30am woke up coughing.. poor thing. Took an hour but was finally able to calm her some and get to back to sleep. Us too.

Long day. After she went to sleep I went online to get ideas on how to deal with temper tantrums.. Sunday was better after our learnings.....

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Cute kid in a suitcase.. hm.. might make for a quieter flight home... tee hee, Barbie we get for free from White Swan hotel, rainy day in Guangzhou.. pretty area, crusin in her stroller. she loves it!! Waiting for exam.

ZaiJian
~Donna