This was our first weekend as family and we spent it very quietly in our hotel room. We enjoyed getting to know our daughter more and more. She is a doll, her eyes just make you melt and when she follows it with a smile you just keep falling in love with her. She loves her stuffed chocolate lab names kikichops, just a little teaser before she meets the real ones. When Emily is hungry, she gives out this little chirp that sounds like a bird. Ruth just loves the sound. I love to look after my girls, from making formula for Emily, to making Ruth a cup of tea. Just the way I like it. Ruth this afternoon discovered that Emily is getting her first tooth. I even felt it, wow another first of many more to follow. We met the other couples on Saturday night along with our Sunrise Adoption Coordinater for dinner at the Green Tangerine, a quaint little French Restaurant in the Old Quarter. Of course its exactually what Emily likes as she can charm the room with those beautiful eyes and that cute smile that follows. Its so neat that people we meet are so interested in our story and so happy that Emily will have a nice home and parents that love her. Over here in Vietnam, it feels like the people worship their children and you can feel it in the way speak about them and also by the way they treat Emily. When we go downstairs for breakfast the first thing Michael, the customer service manager does is takes Emily so we can have breakfast. His wife Honhg who also works in the restauarant loves to hold Emily and shows her off to the other hotel patrons. What a way to spend our first weekend as a family!
Cheers!
Darcy
It sounds like you are all well looked after there! It is so nice that you are able to have this time together with just the three of you to get to know Emily and her you, she sounds (and looks) like she has always been a part of your family! Can't wait to meet her..........I hope you are planning to bring her into work!
ReplyDeleteThat first picture of Emily and "Kikichops" is a real winner !! What an absolute cutie pie she is.... Darcy you are going to have your work cut out for you in about 15 years time !!!!
ReplyDeleteGlad that you feel comfortable enough to be out and about sightseeing with your new baby in a "foreign" country, so you can see new places and enjoy the whole trip (not just the adoption part!)
I can hear Ruth's screams from here...! I can just imagine every time the bicycle takes off she lets one go (scream, I mean).
Anyway, keep enjoying yourselves. We are all enjoying the wonderful stories, comments and personal experiences you are sharing. It really makes us all feel special too to be included in your life-altering adventure!!
We love you!!
Kate
Hey Family McDonald glad to see and hear that all is going so very well. What joy this blog has been these past couple of days - miles seperate but heartstrings do not.
ReplyDeleteDaddy Darcy your gushing is so sweet your girls both have you under a magical spell.
Thanks for sharing!! :)
Love, Janice
P.S. Enjoy the "quiet weekend" as this will be a phrase you will not very likely say in the comimg months ahead.
Emily is the most luckiest little girl to have parents like you two. Glad to hear you are having fun getting to know each other. Can't wait to meet her, Ruth you must bring her into Buy-Low.
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