Consolate Appointment

Consulate Appointment

 

Today was a big day in China!  We had our Consulate appointment first thing this morning (8:30) to get Baby Girl's Visa sticker to travel to the US!  It was a quick appointment.  We were in an open room with 12 other families all with babies under 2 years old. We all stood together, raised our right hand, and took an oath swearing that all of our information was correct.  Then, they called us up one by one to sign papers for our visas.  That was it.  We were done in about 15 minutes!  We weren't allowed to take any cameras, phones, watches, etc to this appointment because of the security threat last month, so we don't have any pictures!

Once we finished, one of our guides took us to the international medical clinic to have baby girl checked out.  We found out that she does have 2 ear infections and confirmed that she has an umbilical hernia.  The doctor gave us drops for her ears (we wanted an oral antibiotic to make sure it was cleared up before traveling home, but he thought the drops would do the trick) and we will see our doctor when we get home to see if she needs anything done to repair her hernia.  Sometimes they repair on their own, but since she is older and it has not repaired yet, we might need surgery eventually. 

 

We also discovered that BG has some big Mongolian Spots on her lower back and bottom.  The first time I noticed them on her bottom, I thought she was just cold and had that blue skin that comes when you get cold.  Then, we were swimming in the pool this week and I thought it looked like she had bruises on her back.  Robbie thought they looked like Mongolian Spots but they were much larger than I expected.  I thought they would be small dots.  We asked some other adoptive moms in the pool and they confirmed that they looked like Mongolian Spots which made me feel much better knowing they weren't bruises!  The spots are very common in Asians and should fade away by the time she's in school.

 

 

 

Baby and Mom came back and took a long nap while Daddy took the big girls swimming! It was a another low key day, which we have come to enjoy after all of the tours we went on in Beijing and Gansu.   We had a big lunch at the hotel so tonight was a granola bar dinner night for mom and a late night run to Mickey D's for nuggets and burgers for the girls and daddy!  We have A LOT of food left over!  We gave a good bit away tonight, but we still have too much to bring back! Oops!! 

 

The Girls eating French Fries with Baby Girl!

 

Baby Girl still has not slept at night since we have been in Guangzhou so we are praying the ear drops help her feel better and rest better tonight!  We all need sleep! Its almost time for bed - just need her to wet her diaper before we put her down because she does NOT like to be wet at night!  Only one more full day in China before we start our journey home!!  We are little sad to be leaving our daughter's birth place (it was sadder leaving Gansu since that's where she was born and raised), but super excited to be headed home to start our life as a family of 8!!