Consulate Approval and Red Couch Photo

Today all of our paperwork went to the consulate. We waited in our room to get word from Connie and Chen that everything was ok. We all passed - Hooray!

Leila slept even later today - 8:45. We are definitely meant to be together. We both like to eat and sleep. She's looks like an angel when she's sleeping and a little baby bird when she's being fed. She has a tiny little mouth. Most baby spoons are even too big to get the food in. So we use little bits, and shovel it in really really fast. Otherwise she starts to squack.

The spicy noodle went three for three today. At all three meals she needed her nappy changed. Its as though she waits for me to sit down and start eating. She's a cheeky little thing.

Today was also red couch day. The babies had their photos taken on the red couch in the lobby of the White Swan and the group had a photo taken in front of the waterfall. The cooperated for the most part. Then someone started crying and it turned into a symphony. You can see in the first photo on the couch that Leila's girlfriend Lauren is very concerned about her. Here the girls get ready for their photo - with matching lucky ladybug dresses of course.




Tommy and I got a night out tonight. Keryn stayed with the girls. We had a bottle of wine at an outdoor restaurant on the Pearl River. We sat under what looked like Cypress trees with green spotlights shining on them and red lanterns hanging from the branches. We watched the neon lights of Bar Street across the River. For anyone who has been to Guangzhou, you know what I mean. It was really nice to have some time alone. Probably our last for a while.

Leila said Mama today. I went nuts! I'm sure she didn't realize what she was saying but it made me melt just the same.