Please keep praying for our little girl whose fever keeps going up after the tylenol wears off. She and I stayed in the room coloring and playing Uno while Shawn and Jake went on the tour.
Shawn and I took her and her red silk dress over to the White Swan for a little outing this afternoon. Here are some of my favorites.
We are cracking up trying to use google translator to communicate with her! We have learned many words from her, but I wonder exactly what they each mean! For example, I suspect the word she uses for "bathroom" means pee...I would rather say bathroom...but I guess right now I can't be that picky. We tried saying some things we "know" into the translator and "purse" came back as "cow pea". That's really what I want to be saying to her in the airport, "Sophie, get your cowpea" thinking I'm saying "Sophie get your purse."Oh well, she knows what we mean! We did get a couple things right. We are trying to teach her to sit and crawl on the bed, instead of walking on it so google translator said "crawl" and she started crawling, we told it "sit" and she sat, "stand" and she stood. It was a hoot!
This afternoon Shawn was showing me pictures of his outing this morning and we ended up looking at all the pictures of our trip with Sophie. When we got to the ones of the hotel in Nanchang with the lanterns, she said, "Nanchang"! We couldn't believe it! I don't know why we were so surprised, she continues to show us how bright she is.
I am starting to get homesick. The pollution smell, the smoking, the lack of food for Jake (and sometimes me) is starting to wear on me. And being stuck in the room with a girl with a fever doesn't help either. Others had their official Consulate appointment today and get their children's visas tomorrow and will be leaving. Some already left. We are ready to see our other kids in person instead of on a screen. But thank God for Skype and email. They have really carried us through.
We had a nice prayer time tonight, for Shannon's surgery tomorrow and for the remainder of our trip. We trust God for all that he has planned.
Oh, yes, I will pray for her fever, and for ALL of you. It will be so great to see your whole family reunited. I am praying that there will be no delays in your return home.
ReplyDeleteContinuing to pray! Love the pics and the tidbits.
ReplyDeletehugs!
Jennifer
Praying for you as you count down your days and for Sophie's fever to be gone. Loving your pictures and happy to see how well she is doing for you! Also so thankful to see good reports on Shannon and her surgery today! So many praises!
DeleteMiss you on Skype! Happy Valentine's Day to a great family!
Heading to piano soon...miss you all! Saturday, get here quickly!
Love, Diane xo
Well...have you tried anything besides tylenol? I found it as worthless as a placebo when I was pregnant. Would motrin or advil maybe be more effective?
ReplyDeletePraying! This part of the trip when you're ready to be home gets sooooo long.
Sophia is beautiful! Congratulations!
ReplyDeleteI am so sorry she is not feeling well. Do try Motrin- it is much better. then you can alternate the two if you want to break the fever.
Everyone left and we were still there- it is so hard. We just prayed our way through the extra days...
God Blessing to all of you!