Tuesday, August 24th Part Two

Today was another free day but it was also the day of the infamous "Red Couch" photos. The White Swan Hotel, where we are staying, has many red couches on the second floor foyer sitting areas. It has become an adoption tradition to have all the babies and adoption families photos taken on the couches. The lobby was rockin' with all the running babies and families. Rodney got one shot of the families as they were taking pics of the kiddos... it was so funny to see... Rodney yelled out to the families no paparazzi allowed! Hee-Hee.... Sophie was the absolute most beautiful and the absolute worst to try and photograph!!! She screamed bloody murder when I put her down and tried to get her picture. One of our guides tried to pick her up (she is a Chinese lady of course)and Soph had a hissy fit! She was done about 10 minutes in... She is a definite red hot chili pepper spicy lil moma!!! Everyone has learned her by her screams... They all think it is so funny. I tell them they will all pay for picking on us when they get home with their little ones lol.
Then we came to the room for her nap... She went down with only one chorus of Jesus Loves Me... however I keep singing to get her sound to sleep cause she will wake up as soon as I put her down most of the time if I don't keep singing and rocking for about 15 minutes. So now all my bunch here give me a hard time and tell me they know now why I am not in the choir haha aren't they sweet!
When Soph got up I fed her lunch and we went swimming for a little while. We couldn't stay in long b/c she is trying to get a runny nose and she won't stop trying to drink the pool water. When we came in we played in the room for a while and then got ready to go out to Lucy's once again for supper. The food is pretty good there but we are really getting sick of the same thing over and over but Lucy's is the only place to get food anything like at home. After supper we made the block to a few of our daily shop stops and I had to get Sophie and bring her back to the room b/c she was about to fall asleep in the stroller. However by the time we got back into the room she had come back to life and was ready to party for a while. So, her daddy obliged and played with her until she crawled up in my lap and wanted me to rock her to sleep. My girl is so precious and I am loving being a mommy to a little one again. All those little smiles, pats, and kisses are filling my cup up with joy! Thanks again for the prayers and for following along....
Love,
Tammy

Enjoy the pics...