Our Gift From Above

Yesterday, we went to a museum and learned about this Province (Guangxi). We learned about differeent cultures, the Chinese New Year, etc. We learned about one thing special they make here in this Province, which is called "The Love Ball". The girls give it to the guy they fall in love with. We purchased one for Jazlyn and a couple for decorations. They are very neat and pretty. Scott carried her around in the sling for awhile and she did great! A little bit later, she fell right asleep on my shoulder while I was carrying her. I love when babies sleep on your shoulder. :-)

When we got back to our room, we got a fun surprise-a package!! It was the bear we had sent her a few months back!! They also sent a picture of the orphange and a little card from her caretaker that we requested. This really made our day to get all of this for her.

Everyday she is doing less and less crying. She is smiling more each day. I was able to really kiss on her checks and squeeze her and really give her some good lovin' today. She was all about it! :) She better get use to this, cause one of her brothers (Brylan) loves, loves to kissy on babies!

Her Chinese name means "beautiful" and Jazlyn means "flower", so she is our "beautiful flower"!!

The reason adoptions in China are taking so long is they can have more than one child here now, so there is not as many babies to be adopted as there was 6 or so years ago. Depending on what their family name is, will determine how many kids they can have. (The government tries to keep it all equal and controll the number of people.) If you have a child and aren't allowed to have the child, you have to pay a lot of money, so that's why people give them up for adoption. They aren't legally allowed to give them up for adoption so that is why they leave the babies at places (like a park). Also, schooling for the kids is not free either. They have to pay for all their schooling from preschool to college.

We have able to talk with friends and family on skype quite a bit. Facebook is banned in China, so we have no access to facebook or our blog. Thanks to my family for updating everything for us. We would still love for everyone to make comments and leave messages. We will read them when we return.

Today (Friday, June 17th) we are just hanging around the hotel. We have a flight tonight at 6:55 pm. to Guangzhou. I hope Jazlyn does well on her first airplane ride! We are excited to meet up with the couples we were with at the beginning and see their new babies. :) I think this last part of our trip will go very fast.

If anyone sees our boys, please give them a BIG hug from us!!! Enjoy the pictures...