One Day at a Time
The common area outside our hotel. Friday afternoon
Mommy and Jia taking a walk
It's so good to see her smile:)
Monday night's PJ's, notice the silver shoes she had on right until it was time to crawl in bed.
Next morning, ready to go.....notice the same PJ bottoms......:)....and yes, that is what she had on ALL DAY!!!
Yesterday's morning mourns ended up turning into afternoon and evening mourns. Our hearts broke for her as she cried off and on all day. We stayed in and just held her most of the day. She is starting to prefer me (Sarah) and TJ just grabs any moment that she will give him. Today (Saturday) started out pretty good. She made it through breakfast without crying and most of the morning for that matter. Today instead of just being sad, she seemed a little angry. She would have NOTHING to do with me doing her hair, she would cry and rip out the pig tails I tried to put in, so we decided to go for the natural look. Then it was time to get dressed and she insisted on wearing her pj's.....I tried to convince her, but it REALLY upset her, and in the end we compromised (she put on a white t-shirt and wore her pj bottoms.......(Ethan, Grace and Miles.......don't even think about asking to do this...LOL:) I decided this was not a battle worth choosing, she has loss control over so much in the last couple of days, I felt like I needed to let her have a voice in this. We then went to a "river" that runs through the town just a 5 min taxi ride away. ( I would give you the name of it, but Jia is looking at the tour guide book and I don't dare take it away to look.....:) We ate Chinese for lunch and it was pretty good. Then we walked back to the hotel. Jia was ready for some quite time when we got back. We relaxed, but she never fell asleep. We ate in our room (some deli sandwiches from downstairs) and then went for a little walk, it was so busy, we decided to come back to the hotel. I don't think I can explain what happened next. Maybe another day...... In short we had the hotel employees translate some things Jia was saying and in the end we all ended up in tears. Please keep praying for her broken heart.
Here are some pictures from yesterday and today capturing a few moments of Jia's personality coming through:)
