Tuesday May 16th 2006

Baby Hope likes to sleep with Baba's hankie.
We know we keep saying this, but she is so precious. We adore her, and wonder what we ever did without her.
For all of you who are waiting, please be encouraged by our posting. Your dear little one will be in your arms. May God strengthen and comfort you in your wait. And may you know the sweetest of His blessings in this time.

We have had Hope for just over a week and she has 6 pairs of shoes. What a girl

She must have been a beautiful baby...

My sweet Hope

Kelly and Hope in Bonzi Park

kelly and hope in bonzi park

Hope giving Mama hugs in the banzai park in Guangzou. Her little hugs are so precious to us.

She says "oooooWah!" as she hugs us!

Those are some intense eyes.

"Baba, Hold Me!"

Bottle time on the bus.

Let's bring the food. I'm hungry.

Hope can hardly stand up with the heavy backpack but she is a determined little girl!

Hope tries the loaded backpack. She had to sit down to get leverage! Oh, the world of a two year old, we are having SO much fun!!

Hope likes to do like Baba does. She has seen her Baba carring the backpacks every where...guess she wanted to give it a try!

It's 9:00 pm and the shoppers are out. The neon lights were fantastic.

Lots of neon, lots of people.
McDonalds was packed at any given time, but we didn't eat there - we loved the local food. Except the unidentifiable squiggly stuff that was the color of mud.

This is a shopping mall in Guangzou. The side streets are all little shops. There were some guys in our travel group that wanted to do a little shopping and we found that in a few shops, there would be someone that spoke a little English, if not, Nate would just point to what the guys wanted and use a calculator to negociate the price.
It was a lot of fun.