Just chillin' today

Thank you all for your comments and warm wishes. We're so blessed to have so many friends who care about us and about our adoption adventure. Andy, I would pay cash money to see you do those cartwheels.

And since you all seem to care I'll continue on with all of the details.

 Xiu Dan slept through the night, and woke up happy and ready to eat at 5:30. She's only cried a little occasionally, when one of her family members leaves the room. She's definitely bonding well. Kori says she's a daddy's girl. We're going to just chill around the hotel today to give Kori a chance to recuperate and Xiu Dan a chance to get to know us all in the safety of a non-familiar place.

A few cool things we're learning:

•  Believe it or not, she appears to be about 95% potty trained. Take of her clothes, hold her over the toilet and make a ssssssssssssssssssss sound, and she tinkles. Sweet!

•  I think she knows us by name. We say, "Where's Mom?" and she looks at Kori. "Where's Dad?" and she looks at me. I'm not sure she can tell Chien and Pak apart, but that's okay. Neither can 85% of the white people we meet in America (not to mention, inexplicably, a few of the Chinese we meet here).

•  Per the orphanage director's suggestion, patting her on the back helps her to calm down. That's good to know.

•  Video conferencing via iChat is the bomb. Skype is great, too.

•  We've discovered that she hates transitions. If one person puts her down, she cries for a while. Gives her back, she cries for for a while. The only thing she likes consistently is for daddy to hold her. :)

And a clarification:

• We didn't exactly pick the pink outfit for her first pictures. It was one of the only outfits that fit her. She's chubby!