Medical Checks - the 27th

CJ 11.27.2010

Medical Checks.

At 10 I alone met Cordelia to fill out some final paperwork. She is amazing and really knows how to do everything just right and most efficiently!! I left Jerry with the girls finishing breakfast. After they finished, they discovered the play room. He said that both girls were just running and laughing and going crazy in there! It’s a huge room, with nice carpet and tons of toys to play with!

After the paperwork was finished we took some of our laundry and went to a shop just outside the white swan. We gave them our laundry to do and they let us borrow 2 strollers for the week! Funny, huh?! It was about 14 dollars to do a good size plastic bag of laundry… puked on laundry. So glad!

Then off to the medical clinic to get the girls checked. We had to stop and get the girls’ visa photos taken real quick first. At the clinic there were of course lots of families. Its so exciting to see all the little children getting their families! The girls did fine… neither of them cried and they both cooperated completely with the nurses and the doctor. The doctor was so kind and patient, while he observed our crazy Kimi! She is so spastic sometimes! Haha! she grabs anything that is around, including his pen and laser pointer! He thinks her cp is moderate… not sure I agree. I think it appears moderate, because she has not been in a family and acts so crazy from being in the orphanage. I guess we will see what doctors say at home. He said Maria looked healthy… especially after seeing her fat little legs and booty! Heeheehee! He watched her walk and we talked about her little whip-smart mind. He was impressed. That was so nice, because we think she is amazing, too.

Kimi had to have the TB test. I missed that. Jerry took her for that. He said she kind of cried out for only a few seconds, so that was good. Another family gave the girls some puffs while we waited to be released. On the way back Cordelia showed us the Thai restaurant… which jerry made us stop at for lunch. The food was very good. Of course we convinced Cordelia to eat with us. We had such a good chat with her… she is just so sweet and we LOVE her! We talked there for a LONG time. Kimi and Maria chowed! They loved the food, too. Maria didn’t like the spicy curry that Jerry got though… Kimi loved it! She is a Hunan girl. The typical Hunan food is SPICY!!! Too much for this wimpy mama!

On the way back to the hotel Cordelia showed us some of the shops around, if we need anything. We came back and the girls took a nap…

After their nap we took them down to the play room again… Kimi went nuts as usual, Maria fraked out and started to scream. We weren’t sure what the problem was… nothing happened to her, but she was MAD. It was so weird… she was furious… finally Jerry took her around the corner in the room and sat with her in the floor… she was so mad she was kicking her feet and doing that mad screaming thing. We thought she would stop after a little while and join with Kimi who was running around like crazy. Finally we had her put her face down on her knees, like we used to with Anthony, we figured surely she couldn’t keep screaming when she was bent in half, right? Ha! She never did really quit. Finally I just made her get up off the floor and walk… she had to stop… she couldn’t scream and walk at the same time! Goodness! It was so weird. She was just mad! We finally decided to leave and take a walk outside. I told Jerry after we left, that probably all the other parents were saying, oh we’re so glad we didn’t get that little girl! Hahaha! We’re glad nobody else got her, too. :)

It was SOOOO nice outside. Perfect weather for a t-shirt. We went next door to the hotel and bought a drink and a bread roll, and two little ice creams. The girls have now decided that they love ice cream too. We had mango and taro ice cream. Then we walked some more… probably another hour… everybody was outside playing and talking that live in the apartments around. We finally decided to eat at Lucy’s. a little restaurant I have seen mentioned before on other blogs. They had spaghetti Pesto and grilled cheese sandwiches, simple enough. The girls liked everything… they enjoyed their first French fries and they both love cucumbers and tomatoes, which were on the side of the sandwich and the spring rolls. When we left there we were walking back to the hotel… we stopped at the shop where we took our laundry yesterday. They have a ton of tourist-y stuff in there. Not sure on prices, but I will be checking those out tomorrow.

We headed back into the play room to see what Maria would do… again people were there so she was just like a bump on a log. Kimi ran around and played but soon we decided we better go get them to bed… and discovered it was almost 10pm!!! Yikes!!! Just as we were walking out of the shopping area (you have to walk through the shopping area to get to the play room) we heard the fireworks start! Today was the end of the Asia Games – Olympics for the Asian Countries. So we hurried up to our room to watch them. The view was PERFECT!!! We are on the 11^th floor so we were up in the sky with the fireworks! It was so nice! The girls liked them! Kimi got bored about half way through them, but Maria stayed glued to the window watching! Then it was time for BED!!!