Hangin in Zhengzhou

We are just hanging out in Zhengzhou, mostly staying close to the hotel since my stomach is not a good traveler.  We've completed all the adoption paperwork and Teegan is now legally ours.  Yea!  We are just waiting on his passport.  Completing the paperwork involved riding around on a hot bus to even hotter official buildings, signing papers, doing thumb prints (in Teegan's case, handprint) and returning to our even hotter hotel.  We've previously been in China in January and on this trip I found out that China is not air-conditioned.  Not even slightly.  They have the equipment but our 5-star hotel turned off the air-conditioning.

Teegan is a trouper.  You can tell that he has been well-loved and has had excellent care.  He's very smart and picks up things quickly.  He should be able to hold his own with the Hendon girls.  He loves to clown around and will do anything to get a laugh.  At dinner last night he picked up his french fry (yes, we found some) and put it between two fingers and pretended to smoke.  It was an excellent parody, right down to the narrowed eyes as he blew out pretend smoke.  He looked like a little, old, serious Chinese man. Well, hopefully we can get the french fry grease out of his lungs and teach him some good habits after we get him home.  Everyone in China smokes and they smoke everywhere so he's had plenty of experience observing that behavior.  He hasn't acted sad or cried yet.  It was my worst fear that he would reject us immediately and do a lot of crying.  This still may happen.  He's so good natured and has obviously been well prepared--as much as you can prepare a 2-year old--for this transition.  He woke up the first morning and pointed at each of us in turn saying, MaMa, BaBa, Jie Jie (big sister).  He has been a little mischievous at times, doing things like throwing my drying laundry, which happened to be underwear, out our hotel window, along with his spoon and some markers (all at different times).  He has the lightening fast stealth of any 2-year old.  BaBa was able to retrieve it all.

BaBa has just left us to begin his journey back to the States so it is just us women and the baby here now.  BaBa was a good pack mule, bank, translator, underwear retriever, and loving support and we will miss him.  He's got a very important job though, he's going back to take care of Teegan's big sisters.