Wednesday,
November 25, 2009
MEDICINE MARKET AND PARK
I want to start off by thanking everyone again for all of
the sweet comments left in our guest book. We can't wait
for you all to meet our little girl.
Last night Zoe started showing her personality and was
having lots of fun playing with dad (she did forgive him
for yesterday). This morning she woke up in a good mood,
but when we tried the bath
again she got really scared and starting crying, I had to
get my suit on and climbed in with her and she finally
calmed down. I'm posting a picture from breakfast with her
smiling, we keep getting more and more smiles.
She's talking more now and makes all kinds of faces. She
knows how to clap her hands, give you five and thumbs up
sign (I just taught her this). She picks up on things
really fast and just needs to be shown once and then
she will copy you. After breakfast we borrowed a stroller
from a local market and walked across the Island to a
Medicine Market. I didn't recognized half the stuff for
sale, but did recognize the dried up snakes and seahorses.
I took a picture of the thousands of seahorse on the
ground for sale. Our guide says when people get sick and
go to the doctor they don't prescribe pills, they
prescribe multiple different herbs, spices, etc to mix
together and drink as a tea. We then walked over to the
local park and let Zoe play on the slide, she really
enjoyed the playground but scared us the first time down
the slide because she didn't sit down. She napped
afterwards for about 2 hours and then we met our guide in
the lobby to go to the police station to file for her
passport. She started crying once she seen the van and
cried for quite awhile in the van, she was once again
confused about what was happening. She was sad the whole
trip there and at the station, but as soon as she seen the
hotel she started jabbering and smiling again.
Tomorrow we
go visit her orphanage and I have mixed feelings about
this. I know she will be sad in the van for the trip there
and very confused when she sees where we are, but I think
she needs to be able to say goodbye to everyone one more
time. Also it's very important for us to see where she
spent the first two years of her life. Love you boys and
eat lots of turkey for us tomorrow!
|
Smiles from breakfast
Mushrooms maybe??
Dried seahorses |
