An Update

Clara is doing great. She has quite the little personality and like Liah, she has no problems letting us know how she feels, which is great because there is no guessing to have to do! She is usually very happy and loves to be where the action is. Yesterday after breakfast we went for a walk around town. She smiled and cooed the whole time. She was in the baby bejorn with Jeff and they got lots of stares and laughs from the locals. The people here seem to stare at Jeff and look at how tall he is. We are in a rural part of China now and our travel group along with several others are the only Americans around. Clara loves to laugh and play. She is starting to do really well with Jeff and yesterday, she went to him very willingly. She is sleeping better. We saw a doctor yesterday (a service that our agency has) and the doctor told us that Clara has an ear infection. We are giving her medication and hopefully she will feel better soon. We think this is why she had such a hard time sleeping the other day. Clara eats well and when she is hungry we cannot give her her bottle quick enough. When she sees us making it, she begins to grunt and make other funny noises until the bottle is in her little mouth. We were told that she is eating table foods so we did give her some over the last several days and she has a very upset stomach so we are taking a big step back with this and sticking with formula and congee today and hopefully her belly will be better. Today, we are going on a tour of a local temple. We leave for Guangzhou on Saturday morning to begin our last leg of this journey. We are having a really good time but miss Liah so much. We have talked to her everyday and she sounds great. Her grandparents are taking very good care of her.