Day Two!

Last night went pretty well.  Really well in fact.  

I gave her a bath, and since the rest of the day had gone so well, I was wondering if bath time would be the time she just lets loose and screams and cries.  

She didn't.  

She did cry a bit when I put her in the tub, but once we threw some toys in with her, she was good.  Unbelievable.  I got her dressed in her jammies and laid her down.  She took a while to get to sleep, she  rolled one way then the other, she threw her legs over her creepy old crib (a crib I'm sure would raise about a thousand safety violations in the states), she was up and down, but finally got to sleep without much of a fuss.

This morning, the 4 of us were up before Harper so we just stood over her watching her sleep....

We had to be at the civil affairs office at 8:30 a.m. to do more paperwork.  Harper didn't seem to get the memo because she kept on sleeping, even when we shook her to try and wake her.  I finally just had to pick her up and start taking off her clothes to get her to wake up.  When she did finally wake up, she seemed to process us all over again.  She was more subdued this morning and was a bit fussy, but not anything horrible.  

We went to breakfast and I'm still amazed at how much this kid can eat.  Watermelon was her favorite and she packed it all in.  While eating breakfast, Scott and I realized we are pretty rusty at having a two year old around, because you would think we would've packed a bib or something!  We didn't, so we had to clean her up a bit before we headed out.

We were at the civil affairs office for a couple hours signing paperwork and promising that we would take care of her, not abandon her, etc.  This was also the meeting we were handing over all the cash we had to bring, so we were both relieved when we were finally able to do that and not have to worry anymore about losing it or being mugged!

While we were there, other kids and their new moms and dads were doing the same thing we were.  Most of these families we had seen the day before when we got Harper.  It was so fun to see the 'before and after' on all the newly adopted kids.  Not just their clothes, but you could see it in their faces.  They looked happy,although some still had a stunned look like they were still trying to process it all.  

Since we had a lot of wait time, there was a place for the kids to play in.  It wasn't much, but it still was an area with a few, and I mean a few, toys.  Harper and another little boy were playing and Harper wanted whatever he had.... so she hit him.  

Oh my.  

We have a hitter on our hands. 

We had already noticed it a little yesterday because she tried to hit us a few times.  We had mentioned it to Tingting in passing today, and she had told the ladies from Harper's orphanage who were at the civil affairs office today about it.  They said, "Oh yeah, she was doing that when we had her."  That would have been some nice info to pass along to us.  It's nothing major, but still it would have been nice to have a little warning to duck!

Once we were done there, we headed back 'home' to the hotel.  Harper had a nice two hour nap and the rest of us just enjoyed the down time.    

Later in the day, we headed out to the zoo.  It's not the greatest zoo, in fact it seemed like a lonely deserted zoo.  Even the animals didn't seem to have much pep to them.  We stayed there for two hours when we could have walked it in about 20 minutes.  Oh well, it was nice to get out and walk somewhere without worrying about getting run over by a moped, someone on their bicycle, or just the average crazy driver.  And a bonus.... we saw a bit of blue sky today!

Giraffe with a nice polluted/smog filled skyline in back of him

Even this monkey knows he got sent to a lame zoo... just look at him!  haha!

We actually went to this zoo to see their Panda. 

 Yes, they only have one....and this is how he was when we saw him.

We got back to the hotel once again and had dinner here.  Harper was really hamming it up with silly faces while we were eating, and as usual ate a TON of food.  Since we really don't know what she likes, we try a little bit of everything with her.  What she doesn't like, she spits out.  On the floor.  Ugh.  Going to have to work on that

Everyone headed to bed early tonight, including Harper.  She let out a nice scream when I laid her in her crib that I'm sure they heard 16 floors below us.  However, once she got it out, she settled down and was asleep within five minutes.  

Hoping it continues....