Today, Duo Duo (baby Elizabeth) seemed to be adjusting much better. Before we went to breakfast, we gave her a bottle of formula, and she gulped it down. It seems like her appetite is back which is really a good sign. We played with her and she was smiling and laughing.
During breakfast, we visited with several of the other families. All of us seemed to have shared the same experience of the child going through the grieving process.
We found that one of our friends had to take their daughter to the hospital earlier in the morning with an apparent ear infection. The baby was fussy all night and would not go to sleep. By God's grace, the doctor found no infection. It was just a clogged ear full of ear wax which was quickly taken care of.
After breakfast, Simon went to take care of the orphanage fee and registration fees.
In the afternoon, we went to registrar office to finalize the adoption process on the Chinese government side. Both parents and the child had to attend. After taking the family picture and signing the documents, we were officially declared parents of our baby!
During our time at the registrar office, we did run into the Dianjiang orphanage director again. She is actually the one who gave Duo Duo (as well as all the other children) her official Chinese name. We all thanked her, and she said goodbye to each of the six babies being adopted from orphanage that day. She gave Duo Duo a final kiss and waved goodbye to her. We hope that one day we'll be able to take Duo Duo back to China and visit the orphanage and the director and the nannies. They did such a wonderful job in raising her these past nine months. We owe a lot to them.
In the evening, we went out to dinner with our friends Phong and Vania who are from Chandler, AZ. They adopted a little boy, and he's really cute. We were really glad that we went with them because Vania is the only one among us who speaks really good Mandarin Chinese. Any ways, we found a nice restaurant at a nearby mall, and it was quite exotic. Even though all four of us are of Chinese descent, we decided to pass on the snake dish, the roasted bumble bee dish which the waiter indicated was a favorite delicacy among the children, and stir fry pigeon dish. We ordered some regular dishes, and it was delicious and relatively inexpensive. We paid about $8 per person for a high class restaurant - a pretty good deal.
After dinner, we went back to the dinner. We gave Duo Duo a bath. This time, she enjoyed her bath. She liked playing with the plastic toys that Simon had purchased from the grocery store the night before. After drinking some milk, she fell asleep peacefully.
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