Celebrating Year of the Ox

Today we went to the Teng Wang Pavilion for sightseeing. It has
statues for all the zodiac signs. We took a picture in front of the
ox, which is the sign for both Pan Pan and Pam Pam.

I am having trouble sending photos from the computer (they don't show
up). Only the iPhone photos seem to work, so we can't send any photos
that were taken with our new camera. Hope this one will post.

Pan Pan laughed a lot today. She learned that her dad gives fun rides
and plays fun games. We especially enjoy playing with her in front of
the mirror. We don't think she has ever seen one before, and it is
full of surprises. She also enjoys a Chinese percussion toy that we
bought her similar to what they have in her orphanage.

We are trying to get her to try more physical activities. Her sitting
muscles are so weak she doesn't even like to be in a high chair. The
other girls from our orphanage are similar. By contrast, Olive was
already sitting on her own when she was six months, Davis tells me.

Obviously it is much easier for the orphanage workers to get through
their day without a bunch of babies crawling around and getting into
things so they have little incentive to get them moving. Each of the
nannies has six to ten kids to watch. Still, our neighbor Eleanor
from another orphanage is the same age and she sits up rather nicely,
so it can be done.

Tomorrow we are able to visit Pan Pan's orphanage. We don't want to
make her go through that carsick-inducing ride a second time though so
only I will go. I also hope to see the hospital door where she was
left or locate the woman who found her. This will be the longest I've
been away from her, but I think it's important to take home as much
information as I can about her so that when she is older she can find
out about her background.

Will try to send those pictures tomorrow if we break the code.