Sorry for not being better about posting.  We are in Nanchang and have finished all of the paperwork and just waiting for Braxton’s passport to be ready Friday so we can travel to Guangzhou.  Braxton is doing very good, he has adjusted to mama and baba – he cries when we put him down and is happy when we are holding him. He is laughing and clapping (especially for Mitchell, Allie and Sarah).  When they are in our room playing and leave he will start to cry and look for them.  So sweet!!

Braxton is more delayed in his motor skill development than we expected, but we will get him in physical therapy once home and hopefully he will be up and chasing the kids in no time.  As you can see from the pictures he is about the size of a 6 – 9 month old baby.  Looking forward to getting him home and to the doctor’s.

We are in Jiangxi province and there are very few people that speak English here, it’s more difficult to navigate than Beijing or Guangzhou.  Our guide has us crossing the road which freaks us out!!  It is so dangerous to cross the roads in China and you add 2 strollers to that and it is crazy!!  The good news – we are noticed everywhere we go, no one is going to miss the “big white family” they will hit the wall trying to see us.  We were in the shopping center yesterday and this guy almost walked right into something looking at Braxton in the stroller and the white family pushing him.  We get these looks every day, we have learned to just embrace it and give them the entertainment they deserve.  At lunch today has to be the best.  Our guide took us into a restaurant and helped us order and then she left – no one in the restaurant spoke English.   When we got our food (family style where everyone shared larger portions) there were no plates on the table, so we all ate out of the small saucer on the table.  They did not bring forks (you would think they would have gotten the hint when Sarah was slurping the noodles and Jerry CAN NOT use chop sticks, but they just all looked and laughed.  On a good note – no one understood us so we talked about them and laughed as well!  To add to the craziness yesterday Sarah and I were playing on the bed and she hit me in the eye with her head.  It must have been the perfect spot because my eye started to swell immediately!  So I either wear sunglasses everywhere we go or I go in and get even more looks for having a black eye.

Oh, the joys Braxton has to look forward to!

Now to the part you all really care about, the pictures!

Here is Sarah holding her brother for the first time – she’s pretty excited, he is NOT

Allie holding her brother for the first time (so sweet)!!!!

Mitchell holding his brother (not the first time, but a cute pic)

Today we visited the Pavilion which has a temple that was built in the 500’s AD by an emperor to use for entertainment.  Our first family pictures

 Mama’s babies

View’s of the city from the temple (you will notice the smog and pollution)

Took picture of some yummy chips. Really??  Who eats this??  In case you cant read it (Spicy Green Peppercorn Fish Flavor & Hot & Sour Fish Soup Flavor)

View from Hotel Room

Group that exercises each morning (outside our window)

 Other cute pics:

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