Parenting Cubed

It's almost 7am, and we're now all awake. Hanlin was the last to wake up. LOL the rest of us was up about an hour ago.
He doesn't seem to be "surprised" to wake up here, and is now playing with the girls. He LOVES his LLBean back pack and goes for it all the time. I'va made sure to always have each of thier backpacks with thier own things in it.
He loves to play with the kids, and I'm amazed at how well Lily is doing with all this. she tells me when he shares, or if she shared her toys..

Last night when it was bedtime, he started to whimper. the girls were changing into PJ's and taking baths, and he was getting upset, thinking we were going to put him in the bath. He curled up onto my lap and we explained he didn't need to go in the bath. He wouldn't change into his Pj's either, so after Lily got out of the bath, I dried her off and changed her while we watched tv. He was now cuddled with Frank and he watched intently. After that I motioned to put PJ's on and we was quite willing. Frank laid down with him to sleep and I laid down with Lily, he started to whimper again, and I scooted down the bed to the side of his cot and reached my hands out to him, he grabbed onto them and I softly rubbed my fingers up and down his arm and across his face till he fell asleep. He would start to whimper off and on, sucking his thumb, but he never cried hard. everytime he would start to cry, he would wipe his tears and "suck it up". Man this is one tough kid. We want him to cry, to grieve, and he does from time to time. But he also has no problem asking Frank or myself to hold him, or cuddle him. He loves kisses and cuddles and I think this is helping him greatly. He even loves to sit and play and cuddle with his older sisters.
Frank slept on the cot with him all night, frankie didn't even get up to change into PJ's !! LOL I think that had more to do with being tired.

We are heading to breakfast soon and are spending the day at the orphanage. I told the girls to pack lots of toys. LOL

they told us that the paper work today will take all day. Ouch!!!

We will travel to the civil affairs office and to the orphange.

supper last night sucked. the hotel is not at all well equipped for family and there aren't "clean" places to eat. don't forget... my kids are adventerous! and eat almost anywhere and anything... and we still can't find anything around here. ewwwww

Cheryl and Barb made it to Beijing without any problems. And are looking forward to 4 fundays without us! LOL

Im off to get the crew dressed.

trina.... abigial was wondering if she could set up a MSN time to talk with tori??

Still can't send or respond to e-mails. Only read e-mails.

Krista