Shopping

Well the girls went to Wal-Mart and bought the store out, cost about $2.50. Things are pretty cheap except the stuff from America.

We went out to dinner with the group tonight. We ate lots of interesting foods. It was pretty good and we found out that Kendall LOVES tofu, the girl can't get enough. Jim had to eventually stop her after the 3rd one. We have opened our minds up to new things, you all would have be SHOCKED at Dez, she tried everything, this is the spicy capital and she ate it in stride, our favorite was the bamboo and peppers! Oh and the meal was like 10 courses and a "fine" restaurant where reservations are required, and it cost $6 for our family!

We took Kendall out for a walk on our own today, Wow!!! We would get swarmed by people wanting to talk to her and us. Our guide gave us a card that reads in Chinese that we adopted her and are taking her to America. At first people glare then they give you the thumbs up! You can not believe how happy and responsive people are to us, one lady told Kendall "Your momma and poppa, good to you, take you to USA". You cannot go anywhere without people staring. We were warned by our translator to have her in many layers or people will get mad at you. Well the "Clothes Police" will get ya, We had her in 2 shirts , 2 pants and a big snow jacket, plus a warm hat, not good enough, one old lady cme up to Dez and zipped her jacket around Kendall, as you can see in the picture she was plenty warm. People would come up and feel Kendall's clothing and jesture to us to put more clothes on her. I guess the rule is, if she can put her arms down, not enough layers! They believe that many layers protect the babies from the environment, hello how about some environmental controls on your cars, and no SMOKING EVERYWHERE!!!


As for Kendall, she is starting to really come out of her shell, we are seeing more and more of her personality. We have heard her little voice now which is because of her big brother, I had here babbling looking at a picture of Chandler on the computer!

Kendall still hates baths, but we will get her used to this, what a concept, bathing your baby,again something the Chinese do not do, we still can not get over that they do not believe in bathing babies! And according to Cindi never in the winter, that is just not done. We explained to Kendall in the US we just have issues with body funk :)

Our guide Cindy is amazing, she is from Beijing and will be with us the entire trip, she and Dez were talking about the formula, and she says to Dez " I am not sure why you Americans think we Chinese are lactose in tolerant, we drink milk, eat yogurt and only some people have allergies to milk products". She went on to explain that as of 10 years ago only the babies were given milk with the food cards, in the last 10 years as the economy has changed they can all afford milk, she said she did not drink it until she was in her 20's. So we changed Kendall to milk based formula, Enfamil can be purchased at where else but good ole reliable Wal-Mart! The cost is the same here too, just like at home.



Oh and Dez and Cyndi have agreed to disagree on the begging here in China, Dez has not stopped giving every young child begging on the street corner a few Yuan. However, Cyndi says it teaches the kids to not get a job, to not work, their mothers are healthy they should work! Well Dez says that it is not the child’s fault the parents choose to beg, this is what the child has learned, so why should the child not get some money, this is not like our beggars, they are not getting money and then getting loaded, they are eating with the money! One group about mugged Dez for her KFC sandwich! It is not as bad as the begging in Mexico, but it is sad when you have this tiny little girl asking for 1 Yuan which is like a dime to us!

Before we go tonight, we wanted everyone to know your comments have meant so much to us, the tears are flowing reading your guys thoughts, and that on the other side of this world people are falling in love with Kendall, just as much as we are! Thank you everyone for being there for us, for sharing in our adventure!

Chandler you have an AWESOME time at Disneyland tomorrow, we know you will have a blast! xoxoxoxoxox