Today was Jade and Pearl Market day. After eating breakfast, we joined the Norris's, Ann and her company, and our Holt escorts (Anson and Joyce) in the lobby for our tour. It was a lot of fun! We visited the jade market first and there were jade vendors "everywhere". We walked around and looked at many of them before making our purchase. Nate got me a beautiful green, jade braclet and we got him a jade pendent.
From the jade market, we walked across the street to the pearl market. Same thing with pearl vendors in every shop (it was like a mall with every shop selling pearls!). Nate bought me three different neclaces (they were so cheap) and then we bought each of our daughters a pearl neclace (ended up being $4 U.S. dollars a piece!). They are going to love them:)
For lunch, we grabbed a bite to eat at the deli and then headed for the pool. It was such a beautiful day to be at the pool! There were a lot of adoptive families down there (one couple was in their late 50's!), so it was fun to visit with many of them. It's just so neat to see all of these families brought together in one location, touched by the same thing - the adoption of a child. Having so many children from all over China and so many families adopting from all different agencies, is just neat. We can all learn from, strengthen, and gain support from one another.
Tim, Kerri, and their two kids joined us for supper and we again went to the Tao Ran Xuan. We were seated at a table next to the young lady who played beautiful music on her instrument, so we got to enjoy that the whole meal through. It was just such a fun meal being with our new and forever friends, the Norris's. We are so happy to have them back with us (after being together in Beijing and then having them fly to their child's province to get her). Our kids all had a fun time too. Anya loves the tea and each day, her appetite improves. She has started feeding herself now too and she is filled with laughter and smiles:) She has begun saying, "Ma Ma" and making baby sounds. She's really trying to mimic what she sees Nate and I doing too. She claps her hands, moves her tongue back and forth, rubs her head, gives Hi-5, etc. It's very cute! I know Nathan, Annalise, Ainsley, and Anniston are going to eat her up:) They will be such great brother and sisters!
We borrowed some little, Duplo type blocks from teh Holt office here, so Anya is on teh bed playing with blocks:) This little girl has just blossomed over this past week! It's hard to believe she is the same child we met on Sept. 19. I think that she knows that we are her parents and that she is with her forever family!
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