A Day in Taipei

Not much to say about today. We spent the morning at the American Institute of Taiwan (AIT) doing paperwork. We go back there tomorrow to pick up David’s passport and visa. We wandered around after that. Had lunch at a coffee shop and went to the handicraft market and bought lots of things! David is much heavier than we expected and my back was very sore after all the walking with him in the carrier so our next venture was to the Carrefour – a huge Target/Ikea like store. We bought a stroller (yeah!) but were less successful at buying some new clothes for David – a combination of him being much bigger than his measurements implied and a cold turn hitting Taipei means that we don’t have enough cold weather clothes that fit him. Josh is now back at the night market looking for clothes and eating all sorts of meaty treats without me! David and I ate some noodles, bananas and steamed buns in the hotel room. He is such a trooper. Barely cried again today despite the fact that we were doing very boring things and he was very tired. He goes to sleep really well – last night he fell asleep drinking his bottle (very bad for his teeth, we know, but two more days of orphanage habits won’t make a difference in the long run). At nap time today, we put him in his crib and he talked to himself for about 3 minutes and then fell asleep! Tonight he cried when I put him in his crib because he was enjoying playing and didn’t want to stop. But within 1 minute, he stopped crying and he fell asleep within 10 minutes. Hopefully this behavior lasts once we get home!

I happily discovered that our camera takes videos so you get to see David in action today. . We have lots more footage on our actual video camera but we don’t know how to get that onto the computer.

He continues to be very smiley and happy. He really likes the stacking cups we brought and gets delighted anew every time he discovers them. He charmed lots of people at the AIT this morning running around and smiling at them. We saw one another adoptive family there but didn’t have a chance to talk to them because they were standing in different lines.

We fly home tomorrow night – we leave Taipei at 11:30 pm and arrive in San Francisco at 7:30 pm on the same day! Then, we keep our fingers crossed that our AMERICAN AIRLINES flight to Chicago isn’t cancelled. We are very ready to be home with our girls again. Unless we’re very inspired we probably won’t write a blog entry before going to the airport but we’ll try to post after we’re home.

P.S. Back to the pork thing that I wrote about the other day – last night we ate dinner at the buffet in the hotel. I was delighted to find sushi (there’s a big Japanese influence in the food here) but subsequently shocked to discover that of the 3 different rolls they had, one had ham wrapped around the outside and another had a cube of ham on the inside. Really, pork in sushi????!!!