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Thursday, January 26, 2006
Originally posted on Friday, September 5, 2003 1:55 AM CDT
Originally posted on Friday, September 5, 2003 1:55 AM CDT
Hello from Nanning,
Well things with Emilie have improved a little bit in the 3 days we have had her. She is eating, but only when Lisa feeds her. She will basically have nothing to do with me at all. She cries and throws a fit whenever I try to hold her and pulls away when I touch her. I know it is normal for an adopted child to attach to one parent,but it still hurts after waiting and dreaming all this time to find out that your daughter does not like you. I know she will come around and hopefully soon.
Emilie will not let Lisa put her down at all. And with all the crying and screaming Lisa's nerves are getting very fraid also. We have discovered that she was a very stubborn and spoiled little girl and we are both working hard to change that.Basically Lisa and I are ready to come home, neither of us has enjoyed this trip at all since Wendsday morning. We are definitley thinking twice about starting this adoption process over again in a year.
Yesterday we got to visit the Nanning SWI and Mothers Love orpanage. At mothers love we actually got to go inside the baby room. Let me tell you it broke our hearts to go inside and see all of the beautiful little girls laying in cribs and on straw mats. What was really sad was the one little boy of about seven who had no eyes and was just sitting on a straw mat weeping. I know I was in tears when we left that room. I had to leave early because I was holding Emilie and she started throwing a fit.
I forgot to mention that Jane, CWA China program director joined us in Nanning Wendsday night and went to the orphanage with us and took clothes and toys.
We then went to the Nanning SWI where we got to meet the director again and a doctor looked at Emilie to see if she had any physical problems. The doctor gave her a suppository because she had been constipated and that seemed to help some.
We were able to drop off two gifts that we had bought over for CWA families to the orpanages were the children were. We gave the Thompsons gift to the director of Mothers Love. We did not get to meet thier son though. At Nanning we dropped off a gift for Rob and Debbie Hard. We have some very good news for Rob and Debbie if I ever can get hotmail to work here.
Please continue to pray for Lisa, Emilie and I, We really need all the prayers you can send our way.
Tommorow is one day closer to home!!!
God Bless
Steve
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