"One Day In China"

Today while Mike & I were walking behind our daughter, Mike leaned over to me and whispered the following words “my oh my….it’s as if we lined up all of the little girls in the world and personally hand picked her”. I responded by saying “yea, she’s the one we would have picked”.

LiLi continues to grieve outwardly but she’s handling it all like a winner (must be that Adkins blood flowing in her veins)(yes, this is Mike writing…dadgummit). Anyway, Melissa is the one that LiLi adores but she’s warming up to Mike and Eston as you can see in the pics. Our Wednesday started out by all of us loving on each other and just playing and talking. Mike was awake much of the night and took a pic of LiLi and Miss sleeping at about 4:00am (first pic). After eating breakfast downstairs and playing in the one of the play areas, we headed off to a local museum that featured one of the Chinese dynasty’s that existed about 100 years B.C. It is supposedly one of the best museums in all of China. After that, we had lunch at another authentic restaurant where the Chinese food was just incredible (PF Changs is our favorite in the states but there’s no comparison whatsoever). Later, we went for a swim and just continued to enjoy each other as much as possible. Later in the evening after having dinner (we’ve been having room service every night), the kids colored and looked at books.... and later we bounced on the bed and played. Before bed time, Melissa read them a book (LiLi is already starting to repeat words back to us in English). While Melissa put LiLi to bed, Mike and Edge went for a stroll around the hotel to talk and play.... and just visit about whatever Edge wanted to visit about (as it turned out, he had questions about a familiar discussion they have about the difference between being “a winner and being a loser in life”).

We truly hope that we’re not implying that LiLi is perfect or that everything here is perfect….because certainly it is not ! LiLi continues to outwardly grieve and is revealing that she can be very “testy” (understatement) but, certainly we are doing the best we can to express ourselves and our experience here as accurately as is possible (without being too detailed). Bottom line is that we are crazy about HER and we are having a wonderful time. Please continue to share this experience with us and feel free to comment as you feel led. God bless.