Sunday Night was a good night!!

The five of us went to a local Thai Restaurant called the Cow and Bridge. Chris went unwillingly thinking she was not going to like anything. We ordered a light dinner since we ate so much at lunch although David said he ordered a “light” lunch. Ha. For dinner, we ordered fruit, Thai spring rolls, a calamari dish with an orange juice sauce on the side and some Thai fried rice. Bill’s stomach is a little off and therefore he was not partaking in dinner. (Not anything he can say is due to the “local” foods, he thinks he ate some nuts in one of the dishes the other night. Nuts always seem to bothers him.) Chris said the calamari was her favorite thing so far on the entire trip. Kassie liked it as well so add calamari to her repertoire of foods.

Everyone laughs watching Kassie at each meal. We are now convinced that either the foster family Kassie was with did not have a lot of food, she did not like the food given, or she was last to eat and only had what was not accounted for. Regardless, for now, she can eat as much as she want and she does so with gusto. We laugh thinking Grandma C is looking down from heaven and smiling to her hearts content. One of the first days we were together she had a plate of watermelon and when she was done with the melon, she picked up the dish and slurped the juice. She eats her noodles and rice with a spoon until she cannot fill the spoon and then moves the dish to the end of the table and shovels the remaining amount in her mouth. Tonight we decided she had enough so we moved the rice out of her sight. She finished her plate and then looked at PaPa’s dish which still had rice on it and motioned her empty spoon to him as if to say, “Hey, I’ll have some of that.” We will deal with table manners later…bigger fish to fry now. She is happy when we are together at meals and well fed….the rest will come.

Tonight we tried leaving MeMa and PaPa to their room and the three of us together in our room and do “sleepy-time” ourselves. We watched two episodes of Kai-Lan together. Then we had silly time. We twilled on the floor, jumped around, giggled, and generally had a good time. Mommy got a couple of actual kisses and some nice rubs on the arm. . We laughed and played.. It is midnight and Daddy is trying to get someone to sleep. The sleepier she gets the more there seems to be a resort to hitting or biting.

Some additional words to the mimic’s vocabulary…she can now say “Kassie Fu” (which is what we have been calling her). It comes out more like “Kassie Poo” but hey….it’s close. We also say “Hey”, “Thank You”, “Good Girl”, “Nice”, “Mommy”, and “Daddy”. She also said, “no more pinching”. After a nice big drink of water she will also open her mouth and go ”AHHH!” She will also put her finger to her lips and say, “Shhh”.

All of us are in agreement, the issue with her tongue does not effect her ability to speak or eat…..we’ll deal with that in time as well.

Night night from us in Guangzhou………..love to all……………