Were have landed in Nanchang

We made it to Nanchang and it is nothing like Beijing. Jeanie, our coordinator, took us to a Chinese restaurant around the corner from the hotel and it was very good. We cannot wait to get Emma in the morning which will be about midnight your time. Ellie has made a friend in Mary Grimm and they are having a blast playing polypockets and barbies. We will try to post pictures as soon as we can. Thanks for all of your thoughts and prayers. Remember, we can post and you can see it but we can view it from here. Feel free to email us at fitnails@sigecom.net
We would love to hear from you.

We are off to Nanchang

Short post to say we are off to Nanchang this morning. Our last day for us to be a family of three. . The Acrobat Show was awesome!! The Summer Palace was also very beautiful. It has been quite an experieince seeing all of these worldly sites. We had a church service this morning and enjoy the people we are with. Love to you all!

We are having trouble viewing the blog. Feel free to e-mail us directly at fitnails@sigecom.net. We went to the Summer Palace and the Great Wall yesterday. It's freezing here!! The Wall was so impressive! DAle and I took turns climbing it. We had a good time and could have stopped there. We were freezing during the Summer Palace tour and it was so overcast that we couldn't see the beauty of the place. BUT, we were there! :)

Ellie is doing better and wants to eat this morning so we should go..

Hope everyone is doing great. We leave tomorrow morning at 8:30 for Jianxgi~we get Emma at 10:30 Monday morning, which will be about 9:30 Sunday night for you. We are excited! I found that the lady from CA and our girl our foster sisters.

Love you all!

Laura

Crazy Chinese Night!

Ellie is better, but it was a rough night. She continued to vomit to where she was listless. We were taken to a hospital that was crazy! It was filthy and they wanted to take blood and do an ultrasound. We only wanted her to get fluids or some kind of suppository, but they insisted and we had to leave. The doctor was very upset with us. Our guide called the FTIA Beijing office and they sent us to another doctor that was not in. So we again hopped a cab to another SOS Emergency room where this doctor spoke English..he was from South Africa.. and tried to turn us away because he wasn't a pediatric specialist. Dale begged him and he finally treated her. They were wonderful! She had 2 bags of fluid through an IV. She hardly flinched when they put it in. She is bouncing around this morning. Doctor said we can go to the Great Wall as long as we promise not to try to climb. We got home at 3:00 am, but somehow we are not tired. We were really paniced and know that grandparents are saying a "We told you to leave her with us!". Who knows what started it all, but we seem to be good today. We will keep you up do date. Yesterday I saw the Heavenly Palace and toured the Chinese Ethnic Center. I saw where the opening games of the Olympics will be held. It was great, but I worried about Ellie the whole time. We will see what today brings. As the doctor said, "Did you forget you are in China now?"!!

We are here, but....

We finally made it to Beijing last night about 10:00 pm China time. (8:00am Wed). Ellie started throwing up about an hour from Tokyo and has not stopped since. Laura went on the tour and I stayed back with Ellie. It has been a long day watching the parent trap over and over. We are going to the Great Wall tomorrow if things get better.
Dale

Updated Pictures and Travel Info

We can't believe it....we finally got some updated pictures thanks to the hard working staff at FTIA. We leave for China on March 27th at 9:55 am. We fly to Detroit, then to Tokyo, and then to Beijing. We arrive back home on April 12th around 7:30pm. We will post more when we get better details. We are not sure what day we actually get her but it is getting close. We thank eveyone for your prayers and support. We are hoping that she grows into her coat soon!

The Opening....

This is a little backwards in the posting but this is the opening of our referral at FTIA.

Here is some of the information that we received in our referral: She was found abandonded at the gate of Hengfeng Social Welfare Institute by a staff member. That same day after a medical examination, she was placed in foster care. When she was found, she was lying in a cardboard box with a bottle, a bag of formula and several clothes.

She gets excited with delight when she sees her foster mother. She cries when she meets strangers (yikes!) and she can raise her upper body up and hold her head up when she is lying on her stomach (that a girl!) It states that she loves to smile and that she is adorable~of course!

It states she gets up at 7:30 am and goes to bed at 8:00 pm...is this a promise?? She drinks formula 4 times a day and eats congee (that was Ellie's favorite!), noodle, egg and mashed vegetable broth.

My favorite part is that her favorite activity is playing outside! I can only imagine she just hangs in her walker!

She weighs almost 13 pounds. Her name means Li-beautiful; Xi-setting sun.