Not quite bonded

Well, Xiu Dan is doing pretty well. We've spent all day around the hotel, just hanging out together. We've found that Xiu Dan is definitely a daddy's girl -- to a slightly frustrating extent. She shrieks every time I leave the room, or pass her to Kori, and she clings to me with the same vise-like grip she used to stay attached to the orphanage director yesterday morning. 

We've also discovered that Xiu Dan has a temper. She's quite assertive, and gets frustrated when we can't figure out exactly what it is that she wants. Boy can she scream. In the words of Strongbad, she's like a Japanese cartoon: her "mouth is extremely small when it's closed, and ridiculously huge when it's open." The only thing she's missing is bright blue hair and really cool robot boots.

Kori's feeling some better, but her throat still hurts a lot. No one else has gotten it -- so far, so good. We're going to go out to eat in a while and then give Xiu Dan her first bath with us. We're trying to get as much skin contact with her to encourage the bonding process, especially between her and her mom.