If this child gets any cuter I might die of cuteness overload!
Nadia is 17 months today and a 2nd molar has made an appearance. Poor thing has been hurting off and on all week. We know that she has gained weight and has grown a little also. We are going to weigh and measure her on Sunday because I love to know the official stats.
Mike had his last day of class today and so when it was near the ending time, Nadia and I rolled on over to the school. The school and Mike’s teacher Jing had presents for Nadia, so we have some new and exciting things for the plane, which will be very good. The school gave her books with Chinese, English and Pinyin – plus a book of Chinese children’s songs with a CD. Jing gave her the cutest little doll and some more books! We love books!! You can never have too many books (good thing we bought an extra carry on suitcase for the book-a-rama). We spent about an hour at the school and then picked up some lunch.
We spent the rest of the afternoon hanging out at the apartment because it’s very cold and wet outside. I would have loved to take Nadia to the playground one more time, but it’s just too cold here today. I’m happy that we got all of our errands run yesterday. We couldn’t find a mailing tube to put my paintings in, but the school gave me one today, which was awesome.
We have adjusted ourselves to getting up at 4:30am (gross) and so we got a ton of packing done this morning before Mike went to school. We are aiming to have Nadia asleep by 5 pm and ourselves a couple hours later. The crazy thing is we will be up for like 8 hours before they pick us up for the airport, but it will give Nadia a chance for a nap and we should all be able to sleep on the plane. I hope our jet lag experiment works as well going home as it did coming here. The funniest part for me is that you get back to the states before you left China. We leave Saturday at 4:35 pm and arrive in Chicago Saturday at 4:15 PM.
The new photos today are from this morning. The top one in the post is now my new wallpaper…Nadia was smiling and laughing at Mama when Mike took it. 🙂