Another Day in Xi’an

Our Living Room

Our Bathroom

Our Room

Work Site Relic

Yesterday was a better day for us.  I had a momentary small glimpse of where I fit in. I held and fed Joy most of the morning and Glenn went out with Amanda, Josh, and Stephen (a new “old” arrival) to pick out tiles for the bathrooms.  Each bathroom will be a different color and match the sitting room and babies’ bedroom.  We will pick out paint tomorrow.

Glenn said the tile market was quite an adventure.  The Chinese contractor was with them and he negotiated the price.

Our hearts are heavy over our friend Doug.  Neither Glenn nor I got much sleep last night after we heard the news. We are praying for Gina and the rest of Doug’s family. Like so much here in China, we do not understand why these things happen to people we know and love and babies we don’t yet know but do love as the innocent children they are.  But, our faith tells us that God is all sovereign and He has a plan.

Jake’s new favorite words are bus and baby.  He constantly chants “the bus, the bus, the bus, the bus.”  Too cute.  He is having a hard time adjusting to the time difference. He has been up since about 2:30am!  We kept him in bed until about 30 minutes ago, but none of us got much sleep.  Jake even woke up Ryan so we will ALL be ready for a nap later today.

Yin’s cousin and an interpreter took us out to dinner and to the Chinese equivalent of Costc*.  They carry a lot of international foods with familiar packaging and we were able to buy cereal, American cheese, peanut butter and jam.  Those are all staples in our house.  They would not let Jake in the store because he is too little (?!) so Glenn and Ryan had to wait outside.  Yin’s cousin was EXTREMELY gracious and has offered to take us sightseeing next weekend.  We also met her son who spoke pretty good English.  He was had just finished school (6pm on at Saturday) but took some time to help us out.

I will post some pictures later.  Flicker does not appear to be accessible.