Sight Seeing

The last few days has had its ups and downs...we expected there could be a little rejection, but we did not think it would be quite this hard.  Yesterday Paityn seemed to be so sad and depressed most of the day and we have had our share of crying spells!  She will definitely come to my Mom and me, but not Madison, Matt or my Dad.  It hurts me for Madison.  Please pray that the bonding between them would come quickly!!!  Madison has been such a trooper through this whole process.  We went to see a temple yesterday morning and just stopped by McDonalds for a quick lunch on our way back to the hotel.  We again went to the pool.  She has been scared to death to even walk in the pool area to a chair.  Got back to the room and went right to bed.  She has been sleeping real well through the night. 

This morning we went to breakfast then met our guide to head to the zoo.  At the beginning of the day she was really sad, so the driver said to our guide that he would join us at the zoo and try to cheer her up.  Between the two of them talking to her back and forth in a language I REALLY wish I would have learned, it worked!!!!  About half way through the zoo (after the panda picture below) she started to cheer up and smile more and more.  We came back and again got ready to go to the pool, this time we thought we would at least put her suit on to see what would happen.  It only took about a minute of being there that she had her feet in the water and 5 minutes later she was ALL THE WAY IN!!!! :)  We all started trying to make it real fun and she even started splashing  Matt, Madison and my Dad and giving high fives and blowing kisses!  What a turning point that was.  We went to a famous Noodle House for dinner, which was delicious, and she ate and ate and ate. 

Please continue to pray for Phoebe and her family.  She is still having a really hard time and has been asking to see Paityn over the past couple of days.  It didn't bother Paityn too much the first couple days, but now when she sees Phoebe so upset, Paityn starts to really cry.  It breaks my heart for both of them.  We know that this is all going to just take time, and the Lord will get us all through.

Tomorrow we receive her passport and will be flying to Guangzhou in the evening, so I will not be able to post again until Saturday.  Thank you again for following along.

Enjoying and ice cream cone at McDonalds

Our driver Mr. Cheng who was a huge help

Giant panda Bing Bing

Madison & Paityn (not too happy...yet) in front of Bing Bing

Paityn's 1st swim and she did great!

Madison showing off her chopstick skills