Our last day in Zhengzhou. We visited the Museum today which I really enjoyed! The history and artifacts were amazing.....that which I got to see when I was not chasing a three year old around! Madelyn rode in the stroller for about 30 minutes then got restless so I let her walk and push the stroller around the museum. She was very good and never ran off but she wears me out, haha!
We ate lunch back at the hotel in the Italian restaurant for one last time. The food is so wonderful and the people have been so nice to us. Tonight we are planning the American buffet again, that was so much like home! Madelyn is such a good eater, we actually have to take it away from her when I feel she has had so much! I ordered her rice for lunch and she was fine with that until my pasta came and she emptied her rice onto a plate and handed me her empty bowl for me to fill with noodles.....our table nearly cried from laughing so hard!
Madelyn is napping right now, she has no problems going down for a nap and neither have I this past week, haha! Today I am posting early as we have to get packed tonight to leave first thing tomorrow morning for Guangzhou.
As I watch her sleep in her crib I guess it is still hard to fathom that she is mine and officially “Madelyn Xiao Wright”. Each day this week has been filled with paper work and more paperwork and I guess it’s hard to explain but I don’t think I will completely feel like she is ours until I come home next Friday and see Matt and Joshua and the rest of my family. Until she sleeps in her own room at home and until we can all be together. It still feels like a dream. After 27 months of waiting for our daughter I sit in our hotel room in China watching her nap as I type this and feel very humbled by what an amazing blessing the Lord has given my family. I can only compare this feeling to when I walked down the isle to marry Matt and when Joshua was handed to me right after he was born. I hope that kind of explains my feelings right now. I know many of you have been and continue to pray for us and that has been my foundation for this whole trip. To know that family and friends care so much is what keeps my heart strong in being away from home and my family that I love so much. We knew that our lives would not allow Matt and Joshua to come with me but I am thankful that each day I get to talk to them, if not for that this trip would seem like it would go on forever!
Please continue to think of us as I know that we still have some tough times ahead of us in understanding each other. Madelyn has not really grieved her loss from the orphanage yet but I know that she is beginning to do that as she gets aggravated with me and is starting to have fits.
Until tomorrow.
Love, Jennifer and Madelyn |
