Monday, July 03, 2006
July 1st--Difficult Lessons in Parenting
Monday, July 03, 2006 by Laurel
Today we had to take our little darling to the clinic for her "baby visa"check-up. Althea was NOT a happy camper as seen here. But it was over fairly quickly once it got going. Another room full of screaming babies--can you imagine working there all day? Then we went back to the hotel and played and played and played. Here's Althea and her daddy looking out over the city of Guangzhou from our room. It is so fun that our little one is opening up and laughing and letting us play with her. She is so funny! And we played and played until suddenly we realized it was almost time to meet for dinner and (gasp!) no nap had occurred. We quickly learned why this is a very bad idea. She had a major melt down at dinner and then fought sleep like her mortal enemy when we were trying to put her down later. She also woke up with screams in the middle of the night--which was both awful and puzzling as we couldn't find anything wrong. Then we discovered it--her two teeth have been joined by a third. Ouch!