Make This Place His Home

Greetings from Shanghai!!  This is Lisa tonight as Charlie, Rita and Kyle “hit the streets at night” to find the knock-off designer bags that Rita wants…We are playing a few days of catch-up tonight.  Our last full day in Guangzhou…

So here we sit, nearing the home stretch and last leg of our trip.,  Ryan is doing GREAT, and is completely absorbed in all of the attention he is getting from his brothers and sister.  We usually need the establish…

Monday was slated for the Guangzhou Safari Park. Again our day started with a good breakfast at the Hotel buffet. I will say that we’re a bit tired of being shuffled to the back 40 to a table in what…

Sunday was one of the “on our own” days while we’re here. Many of our days involve either adoption-related business or pre-arranged tours scheduled through our agency. Our day started as usual with a hearty breakfast at the buffet in…

All work and no play makes Charlie a dull boy. All work and no play makes Charlie a dull boy. All work and no play makes Charlie a dull boy. All work and no play makes Charlie a dull boy.…

  This is Lisa tonight — Today we were all up early to head out for our visit to Ryan’s SWI.  It took us about 1.5 hours to drive south down to where Ryan has lived for the past six…

We took Ryan to the Medical Clinic today for his post-adoption examination.  The clinic used to be on Shamian Island, in a small office (one that most Chinese adoptive families remember).  The last time we visited there with Ashley, during…

This is Lisa – Charlie loves when I hijack to type on the blog..ha.ha.  As Charlie mentioned in our Facebook post last night, we had a free day yesterday so we made the trek over to Shamian, which was at…

Ryan seemed to have a great first night.  After tossing a bit, he settled down and slept soundly through the night.  (Last night was his second night, and he half-woke-up twice, perched himself on his elbow, and said something clearly…