Nanjing Day 3 Made it official

The official notary.

The two orphanage nanny directors that came with Rachel (below)

Giving official thumbprints (me, James, and Rachel), obviously Rachel didn't like this part.

She knew what to do with the phone.

This morning we went back to the civil affairs office, so even though yesterday was 'gotcha day', today was the official adoption day. Rachel is still sick so we went to the hospital after the civil affairs office. That was an experience especially for someone who works in a hospital. We ended up seeing a 'pediatric expert' who listened, took temp and did chest x-ray and said it was bronchitis, not pneumonia. She sounds so rattly, you do not need a stethoscope to here it. She had not had a fever since last night at 9pm but that came back at 2pm today and it was high at about 103. We gave Tylenol at 2pm and now it is 4:30 and it was 100 at 4pm. I am trying to decide when to give Advil. I guess I'll google that. I am hoping that the amoxicillin will work, it is only a 5 day script, so any advice on that would be good. I have a script for Taylor too and could use it if we needed to go longer but his was for his weight not hers, so I don't know.

Today she has said baba (daddy in Chinese), and woof woof when watching Teletubbies.

Well obviously with lil sis being sick we are just hanging at the room today. So not much else to add right now. Please continue to pray we are making the right decisions to help her get well soon. The 'pediatric expert' kept trying to get us to swap to the traditional Chinese medicines, but I told them that since we already started the antibiotic that we would finish it unless she got worse.

Papa Johns, btw, was really good last night. We had Burger King for lunch, just for convenience and it was OK. Odd things about the hospital....one was people smoke in the hospital buildings and I even saw some people in lab coats were walking around smoking. Also, you first go into registration and tell them what specialty you want and pay a registration fee. Then you take your receipt to your specialty department, then they say you need an x-ray, so you go back to registration and pay for your x-ray. Then you take the receipt to the x-ray dept (2 buildings over), then x-ray says it will take an hour to have, then you go back to the doctor (2 buildings over) and tell the doctor it will take an hour can he call to speed it up, then he calls, then you go back to get the actual x-ray and bring it back to the doctor who then has a 10-12 minute conversation with your interpreter but then they turn to you and say it is bronchitis, not pneumonia. Not to mention you are looked at intently by every person that sees you, white woman with little Chinese baby, some even stop and stare right in front of you. I really thought I would put no merit in the 'pediatric expert', but actually I really liked him and he seemed knowledgeable....I just hope I don't have to see him again:))

OK, so while typing this Rachel has been watching teletubbies with Taylor and Taylor went to get up and go to the bathroom and she waved at him, said 'by-bye' and blew a kiss. So she probably has more words than we thought. Too sweet!