Today we completed our payment to the orphanage and went through the legal process of the adoption. We took a family passport photo for Fei Fei, which was a bit trying since the photographer wanted the baby posed just so in between us, but Fei was too busy burying her face in Wolfgang's shoulder. Then came the formal ceremony. We all took the option to purchase a comemorative photo ablum of the day complete with pictures of Chongqing and posed pictures of us becoming a family. Whew!
We managed four bottles today - a huge leap forwards from yesterday's one! Congee, lots of cheerios, carrots, broccoli. At dinner Fei finally got fiesty and played for an extended period with cheerios, placemat, spoon and plastic bowl. It was nice to share notes with everyone else today on how their Day 1 went, stages of development, eating, pooping, (or lack thereof, although Katie won the First Poop title after our false alarm).
Fei slept her first night with just one interruption, AND SLEPT THE REST OF IT IN BED WITH WOLFGANG! He was so concerned with keeping her in the bed that he didn't sleep well from that point on. This meant I finally got my Z's as the snoring at this point was fairly minimal. Fei managed to get extended naps between each bottle today. We are starting ear drops for an infection in her right ear, and have an email in to our pediatrician about the chest congestion. We're prepared with antibiotics if she gives us the go ahead.
So that's it for now...I'm too trashed to upload photos tonight. Tomorrow we're all planning to take it easy!
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