Rainy Day and Monday!

I love these photos of Ryan and Rylie together!  There isn't a whole lot to write about today.  We did go back to the medical clinic to have Rylie's TB test read.  We were nervous because it was red and raised but they said it was fine!  It took forever because of the traffic.  We met another family who has an eight year old son named Max and adopted a six year old son named Ben.  They were a very nice family from Michigan.

We also went back to Lucy's for lunch today- in the pouring rain!  But our hotel let us borrow nice umbrellas.  We had the weekday lunch specials so the price was very good and the food was pretty good.

We spent the afternoon watching The Lorax on the computer with Rylie.  It was in English but she watched most of it and seemed to enjoy it.  We went on one more walk after the movie and Rylie fell asleep so we decided to relax at Starbucks.  It was much less crowded today so we sat for a long time and talked.  Honestly, it is nice to not be able to ever check our phones or facebook and just have to connect.  Another family came in who we had met at breakfast.  They adopted two children on this trip from Henan but these two kids are their 19th and 20th.  They have 4 biological children.  They've been to China, Bolivia, and Guatemaula.  Amazing!

Rylie woke up in Starbucks and was very quite the rest of the evening until we got back to the room.  We got her out of the stroller and she kept whimpering a little as if she was going to cry.  We couldn't figure out what was going on.  She finally got happy again and started eating her noodles.  We are wondering if she had a bad dream and got disoriented.  She is a very happy little girl but we expect her to grieve losing her foster mother and everything she has ever known. 

Rylie is running around the room now finding hidden food and feeding her bear.  She laughs at everything Ryan says or does and when he sits in the chair, she goes and sits with him.  The funny thing is she always tells him to scoot over because she doesn't have enough room.  He always says "I'm a lot bigger than you" but she thinks she needs just as much room. 

She has started to repeat a lot of words and will always say in a nice gentle voice, "Babba"; and "Babba, please" and bat her eyes at Ryan.  They told us she can say Mommy but it comes out more like Nah- Nahhhhh- and very loud. 

We cannot wait to head home- only three more days in Guangzhou.  Thursday night we head to Hong Kong on the train!!!!  We miss Nick and Alex so much.  Rylie watched videos of her brothers dancing tonight and loved it.