Our girl has a scream! You know the kind....the blood curling, pop your knuckles, toe clenching SCREAM!!!
Ok she has attached. That is our goal right? We want the baby girl to attach to us. That's what you read about adopting right? How to help with attachment. I've read about it, I've followed the rules, so now comes the time where she won't let you put her down for 2 seconds???? Nobody explained that part! I usually take a couple of showers a day here. Not the relaxing, help you wake up and start your day kind of shower. No we do the 2 minute shower to get the sweat off you from the HEAT. Today baby girl sat in the stroller outside the glass shower door screaming her head off. It was a rough afternoon. She's fine most of the day when we are on the mov6e, but if I want to do laundry, go pee, you know the basic necessity stuff, she's not having any part of that. If I type this and it's all abreviated you know she's on my lap and I'm typing with one finger. Right now she's actually sleeping in her crib and I should be in bed while I can. I'm still hoping travel agent will email tonight saying we can get out tomorrow night. Doesn't look good. But oh well. There are actually still a few places I'd like to go. I have yet to go to a pogada and I want to hit a book store. I bought the cutest little kids books that are in both vietnamese and english and one all vietnamese for only 1.00 each and would like to get a few more. The shopping here is unbelievable! Molly and I went to a non profit shop today and shopped our little hearts out. Beautiful things for very cheap. I have birthday and Christmas gifts bought! I would have loved to have bought a few silk items for myself, like a jacket or blouse or skirt but Paisley is always attached to me sweating in the hotsling so there is no way I can try anything on. Those of you doing this on your own are VERY brave! I've only had to do it for 6 days and it has been very hard. Ryker has been a great help but it's not like an adult and he can barely hold our chubber chubbs! He certainly can't carry her down the street while shopping. I worry about him enough falling on the crappy sidewalks all on his own.
Tonight was our last meal together with the whole group. We really got lucky to have such great people in our group. All of us very different with very different professions and family lives but a great mix of really good people. I like good people! We ate the best restaurant so far, the Green Tangerine. It is french and so cute but the food is to die for! We ALL loved everything we had! We didn't have reservations and with our large group we had to sit out in the courtyard which was very nice besides not having air conditioning. Some are leaving tomorrow to visit the orphanage of one of their son's. Another couple leave tomorrow to go home. We are scheduled Wedesday and the other couple on Thursday. Funny how we all got different times we were supposed to book our return flights! Not suprising though! But everything in country ran so smoothly and our guy here, Quoc did a fantastic job of making sure of that. He is so humble and when I told him that replied, "That's my job!" How nice is that?!
Any advice on the attachment thing please leave comment. I've never heard a baby scream so mad in my life before. So if you want to share that you went through this as well and how long it took, please let me know!
Getting out all her new school supplies is fun though.
Rare shot when I'm not taking photo.
Friends Rachael, baby Rylan, Leah
Very upset that I was leaving! Put her head down on her arms on her desk and sobbed!
Loving the balloons my dear friend Lisa brought!
don't I look cute after my bath?
Waiting from my hair bow....
My first ride in a grocery cart!
It's kinda fun but I prefer my Mom's hotsling wrap to this hard thing!
Me and my Papa Dave
Me and my Grandma Hollie
Papa Dave loves to pick me up and was loving on me big time my first day home! 
Grandma and Papa were there my first day home and helped my Mom a lot!
Waving hi with Grandma
They live a ways away from us so we're not sure when I'll get to see them again. 
My grandma Bette trying to comfort me.
She does a pretty good job!
so excited to go to the pool!
hamming it up in my bikini!
Like my rolls?
swimming with the boys
Peace Ryker!
Love sucking on this thing
And again
The Stroller isn't too bad either!
Love my big brother!
Mathew and Molly resting after lots of shopping at Craftlink
the kids
the kids again NOT looking
Chilling in my floaty
swimming with my brother
Jeff selling fruit on the street with Raven
Ryker in Horizon pool
Kieran trying to keep Paisley on the couch
Paisley sqeezing out of Mathews arms
Christian chilling by the pool in his cool outfit
Christian loving on his Mom
Paisley and her Daddy
Dads and babies
mom's and babies
Molly, Jeff and Christian
Santosh, Jenn, and Kieran. Not sure why I didn't get a picture of Brian, Toahn, and Leo!
The boys, (except Paisley!)
Every store we went into had their own alter with incense and Buddha for good luck.
Saw this guy a lot in stores too. Not sure what or who he is.
Our very helpful bag boys!
Our last dinner with our group. Ryker will miss the boys!
Highly recommend the Green Tangerine! Food was GREAT!
Paisley all content in Jeff's lap. He's had lots of practice with 5 kids of his own!
Mathew loved holding Paisley! She was happy too!
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