Let's catch up, shall we???
For starters, the girls did marvelous with the whole move'n across the world and 16-hours of plane rides. Honestly, they were amazing. We spent our last week in a hotel in Atlanta while our home was being packed up and our belongings shipped. The girls did awesome. I am just so proud of the way they adapted.
I mean.... just taxing through the airport really required some skillz.
How happy does B look?! And Miss V is in there, too, just slumped down in the cadillac stroller. Dora and Minnie were troopers, too.
I wish I had taken photos of our limo ride to the airport. Between having to finalize the house sale by myself, Derek vomiting all day from food poisoning, and no sleep in the hotel.... I somehow didn't manage to get photos of our last day.
It was a long, long, long plane ride. We had a "short" trip to Detroit (2 hours) and then the long haul to Beijing (14 hours). We arrived in Beijing around midnight local time, exhausted. We met our driver and he took us straight to our new temporary "home" where we currently live now. Bianca has her own room and Miss Veronica is still in a room with us (ah!). We will be here until July 19th and then moving to the suburbs to a house.... where EVERYONE will be in their own rooms (you listening - Veronica?!).
It took about 2 weeks for the kids to fully adjust to the time change. It's 12-hours ahead of Atlanta time here. Bianca was switched after about 10 days but Veronica took a bit longer. Of course, Veronica also sustained 2 new teeth and a bilateral ear infection during this time, too. Poor thing.
Our apartment is pretty nice (I'll post pics on my China blog), but there isn't a lot for Bianca to do. She doesn't really have a whole lot of toys here and you can only go to the playground for so many days before it gets boring, too. So, I enrolled her in a preschool program. She LOVES it. It's amazing. Honestly, it's the cutest little school ever. They take such good care of the kids. It's a bilingual school so Bianca is learning Mandarin. And after only 2 weeks of class, she IS learning. We were at the school today and Bianca yelled at a kid, saying something I had never heard. I told her, "Bianca, it's not nice to yell at your friends. Be nice." The mother of the child (she was Chinese) said, "It's ok. She just asked my son to come play with her. She is speaking Chinese." Awesome. Amazing, actually. Kids are sponges. This school is so diverse, Bianca is in class with kids from all over the world.
Bianca loves going to school. Her first day she was all smiles.
Her school had a small end-of-year/beginning of new year "graduation". It was so neat! The older classes (older as in 4-5 years) had kids doing songs in Chinese and English, as well as dances with fans and kung fu. Really, really, cool. Bianca's class sang and danced, although our daughter pretty much just stood there and stared.
The sunglasses were part of the act, before you ask. She just refused to take them off once the act was over.
Miss Veronica Sue is really growing these days. She actually has had some major milestones. She turned 6 months old just days after we got here. Here's a pic of her during her 6-month week:
(backdrop compliments of The Great Wall of China). Pretty cool to hit that wonder of the world in the first 6 months of your life, huh?
And she's trying her hardest to crawl. I honestly think any day she will be scooting. She actually already scoots, but mostly backward. She gets up on all fours and rocks. Each day she gets better at it.
Bianca was about 10 months old when she started crawling. This one is not even 7 months. It kills me that she is moving so fast. I wish she'd slow down!
But all in all... I think everyone is pretty comfortable living here now. We are making the most of what we have an improvising when need be. At least, it seems so:
Sooooooooooo much more to write. I promise to keep all family and friends updated with my little ones details. Good night (or good morning to y'all in the west side of this crazy world).
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