Operation Mavery Smiles!!!

What a difference a few hours make! Is that not the most beautiful site you have ever seen? that sad little face CAN smile! Oh we saw some personality tonight that is for sure and we were LOVING it! We decided to venture out for dinner with Leigh and family. We were a little nervous of how Mavery would do once back with Emma. But we also want them to be together and find comfort in each other. So we left the room and when I held out my hand, she grabbed on, which was good. We got downstairs and as soon as she saw MingMing (Emma) she took off to her and they just grabbed on to each other. It is like Emma feels it is her job to take care of Mavery, so sweet. So I try to touch her and she gives me the Uhhhh, which is the get away sound. We walk outside to grab taxis and I pick her up to jump in ours and she actually did fine. A little nervous leaving Emma at first, but good. So we decided to try a chinese place our hotel suggested. We asked for chinese food, english menus, kid friendly. We get there and it is very fancy, no english menu, no english speaking people. We point to a picture and ask what it is. Amazingly, every dish on the menu was pork! Jeff asked if they had pork like pig, and snorted for them, and that got a good round of giggles from the waitress's. It was quite comical. We ordered a few different things including duck, pork (we think) noodles and we are not sure what else. The food comes and the duck was bad, but some of it was ok. We have no idea what we were eating, and I think it is better that way. I fed Mavery, she would not feed herself. And after awhile, she just starts laughing and playing and it was so much fun! She and Ming Ming are quite something together. They act like sisters. They were hitting each other and yelling in chinese and we were just having a ball watching them. (for the record, Emma is 5, Mavery almost 3) Mavery is looking at us rattling off in Chinese and we just laughed and laughed! Such a blessing for sure to see her feeling better, made ME feel so much better.

We walked back from dinner and she was getting very tired. She is a heavy girl, but we were just happy she was letting us carry her because at first she was insisting on walking only.

Once in the room we put her pjs on with no complaints. I rocked her for awhile and laid her down and she sat up in bed and just wanted to play with her phone. She LOVES that phone. I had sent it in one of the care packages. I am pretty certain she is dialing 911 (or in China it is 119) and saying, PLEASE save me! She pushes the buttons over and over and has not let go of it.

Sweet, tonight we looked at all the pictures I have and she loves to point at everyone and hear their name! She goes to Sage everytime but stops on each of the other kids to. I also showed her the album I have made to take to the orphanage tomorrow and it has kids that have been adopted from there, along with pictures of the workers etc. She was rattling off people as she pointed to them, to cute! She loves Ming Ming that is for sure and anytime she saw her she yelled Ming Ming! She also stopped for awhile on the 2 Jinhua boys that are with our agency and still waiting.

We finally got her to lay down in the bed and she was out. We will see how it goes tonight. I know I am exhausted and heading to bed soon.

Some things about her. We have named her Mavery Raye JinSong. They gave us her name as Cong, but it sounds like Song and so we are spelling it that way. We are calling her Jin Song or SongSong and that is what she refers to herself as. We weighed her in our room at 30 pounds. She is chunky, her belly is huge as are her legs. I think she might be heavier than Sage, but about the same height. Her feet might be smaller. She is totally potty trained and we hope that she can teach Sage a few things about this. She is smart. In fact our guide said, Jin Song very smart, that is very bad for you as he laughed! She seems older to me than Sage, just the way she acts and talks and works things. Which shocked me, I thought she would be way behind. I believe Jinhua is just a very good orphanage and we were blessed she was there. Her chinese is so clear and it sounds hilarious coming from this tiny little girl, because she talks so fast and loud. Her voice is the opposite of Sage, not deep at all, more high. I hope we can get it on video. Mark tried to upload a video, but we are also doing flickr pictures so it did not work. Maybe I can capture her speaking soon! She has the most kissable cheeks, they are so fat and squishy and I love them!

Tomorrow we are off early to visit Jinhua, her orphange and city. It is a 2 1/2 hour drive so that should be lots of fun! I think she will do ok actually. This morning I worried, but I think she will just play and be with her friends and at the end of the day MingMing will go with us so I think it will be fine. Maybe I am wrong, but with how well she has been tonight, I just feel good about it. To be able to see where she has lived for the last 3 years is a gift for sure. And we are so excited to hug on a couple of boys that we know their mamas are waiting! Please do pray for us, for her as we go through this final goodbye to her home that she has known.

By the way, I have no clue what the sticker on the forhead is about. Emma stuck one on her and even in our room JinSong puts them on her head. Ancient Chinese Secret? I am not sure.

Thanks for the prayers and comments & emails, we have loved reading them and love having you all with us. I can't wait for you to see this little miracle that has been placed in our family. I still have so many things I wish I could write more about my feelings for today, , but I really can't keep my eyes open anymore! (hoping that Amy comes behind and spellchecks me on this one because I just want to sleep! ;0) ) Mark would also say, you are writing enough as it is, get off the computer!