Day 2 in Nanchang

Proud Big Sister!


















We found McDonald's!!!


















Mom playing with her TWO daughters!
















Daddy with his new daughter Jenna!


















Hello to all again,

Thank you to everyone for your encouraging words - we are truly enjoying watching Jenna make so many strides. Initially, she demonstrated some muscle weakness in her neck as well as being able to sit up on her own. I have since been told by another family who adopted from this orphanage that it is common for the children to have muscle weakness. They did not get much exercise in the orphanage and spent a lot of time in the walkers. Since yesterday, her neck muscles have already gotten stronger. Please pray that her muscles will continue to get stronger.

Also, she is very unsteady when walking but that is getting better as well. Her face lights up and she smiles from ear to ear when she sees the stroller, probably because we are encouraging her to walk more than she would like. Although, as long as Madison holds her hand, she is happy to walk. We use the stroller only when walking around in the city.

I must say, the people in China, for the most part, are very eager to please and willing to do anything for you. It is quite amazing to us the amount of people who can speak a little bit of english like "photo", or "beautiful", "you're welcome" et cetera. What is even more amazing is, if when trying to communicate to the waitresses, and other hotel staff, if they cannot understand what we are saying, they ask us to write it down and then they recognize it. That is just fascinating to us because their written language is so different from the written english.

Another thing that is pretty fascinating is the fact that with all of the crazy drivers, we have yet to see anyone have road rage or even use sign language (if you know what I mean) when someone cuts them off, turns in front of them or even almost hits them on a scooter or bike. We are gonna attempt to get this on video tape because it is truly hard to beleive people actually drive like this.

We got mooned today, by a little boy in he hotel who was leaning over to see the fish in the fish tank in the lobby (he was wearing split pantws. It is so odd how these children have their privates exposed and releive themselves where ever they are. My mother-in-law saw an adult male releiving himself on the side walk today. There are also beggers everyone and I do mean everywhere. It definitely makes us appreciate being US Citizens after seeing the conditions in which the chinese people live.

Check out the new photos we posted from today. You can see just how much Jenna has come out of her shell in less than one day of being with us. God is so awesome and it is just amazing to us to see him working in our lives.

We found McDonald's today and we were all ecstatic to see fries and a burger - tomorrow we are going for Pizza. Never thought I would get sick of Chinese food, but it is really starting to get old.

Tomorrow, we are going to the August First Park (hopefully will learn about the history of this park), have pizza for lunch and then go shopping (yippee!). Jane and I are really excited about the shopping part of our schedule for tomorrow.

Will post more tomorrow.

Take care,
Teresa, Rick, Madison and Jenna