What does, “da daâ€? mean in Chinese? Babies say it all the time here and it means, “playâ€?, and that’s exactly what we did today. Incidentally, if you’re wondering, “babaâ€? is Daddy in Chinese and not “Dada,â€? although I have found myself answering to both. We ate breakfast at Café More where we are staying in the Dong Fang Hotel. This hotel is huge, and every morning we have had breakfast at their free buffet! The buffet also is huge with both Western and Eastern foods. I have enjoyed an omelet and sausages quite a bit while here! We found out also while here that Baby Becca likes Ho Fen! Ho Fen is a noodle dish that was available every morning on the buffet! Becca loves to be hand-fed noodles and to suck them into her mouth like a vacuum cleaner! 🙂 What a riot this girl is! She also likes eggs anyway they come, and she likes Congee. Congee is a Chinese staple. It is the same consistency as oatmeal and most of the time I believe it’s made from rice. I think also it can be made from other things as well. My favorite congee had beef and egg in it. It sort of tasted like my Grandma Margree’s Chicken and Dumplings. Anyway, back to Becca! She will eat just about anything you give her! She’s an eating machine! Her profile said that most issues with her can be solved with food. They are so right! She is such a good and healthy eater! Thank God for that!

After breakfast, we had to wait for two hours in our room while our paperwork was being filed with the US Consulate by our guides in Guangzhou, Amy and Lineker (Thank God for these two! They have worked tirelessly to help make everything go so smooth for us all, and they do this all the time! Wow! We salute our guides, Amy and Lineker(Guangzhou) and Sherry(Beijing and Wuhan) and Eric(Wuhan)!) They needed one of us to wait by the phone in case there were any problems with our paperwork. No problems, Praise the Lord!

We spent the morning and afternoon with baby, playing and eating and sleeping. I also spent some time running errands getting necessities at the store for us and baby, and let Sarah wait by the phone in the room for the first hour of the 2 hour waiting period. Sarah spent of that time after I got back in the playroom with her little princess!

We ate take-out lunch from McDonald’s near the hotel, and got our group picture made in the afternoon with all of the babies from the Wuhan, Hubei group and their families. Nine families in all! What a group! We have had a great time, and we will miss them all!

(We also have spent time with the nine families who adopted from two other provinces as well. Everyone has been a joy to be around and will be missed!)

Below is that group photo!:

Here is a photo of all of the Hubei Babies!:

Here is a close up of our Becca with some of her other buddies from Hubei!:

Here is a group photo of the Nanjing group:

After the photo session, most of us went to a Thai Restaurant here in Guangzhou called The Banana Leaf for dinner. The food was very good, and a little spicy. We had jasmine tea with the meal and that helped put out some of the fire brought on by the spices. Below is a photo of Becca in her “ready to eat� pose at the Banana Leaf!:

Here she is eating Cheerios with chopsticks!:

Here is Becca smiling for the camera!:

Tomorrow, we go to the US Consulate for our swearing-in ceremony for Becca’s travel visa and her trip home! Wow! Time has flown by! Sarah and I were saying that in part we are going to miss China, but at the same time, it will be good to be home again! God bless all of you! See ya tomorrow!