The Meltdown
- January 28th, 2005
This
evening, around 6:00pm, Kaylee had her first meltdown. And
boy can she scream. Yikes! We were giving her a bath and everything
was going fine. Then suddenly, as if she was stung by a bee,
she opened up that little mouth of hers and just wailed. It
lasted for about an hour. We tried everything. Nothing worked.
Finally, she cried herself to sleep. But she only slept for
about 30 minutes and then she woke up again. This time she
drank about a half of a bottle and that calmed her down. She
went to sleep. Then she woke up again around 11:00pm. Naomi
and I were still up packing. Kaylee started crying again but
another bottle calmed her down. She stayed up with us for
another hour and a half. Naomi just got in bed and I just
put Kaylee down.
We
spent all evening packing up the place. And we are still not
done. We sort of moved in to this hotel room. We have to have
our bags outside of our room by 10:30 in the morning. We leave
around noon. And our flight takes off at 2:30.
Naomi
is still sick. Bad. It's been really tough on her because
she wants to be involved. She wants to take care of Kaylee
(and she is). She wanted to get out and see Changsha. It's
Kaylee's home town and Naomi was hoping to be able to do some
shopping and buy a few things for Kaylee. But unfortunately
we weren't able to. Hopefully when we get to Guangzhou, Naomi
will feel up to doing a little shopping. But we will have
to wait and see. She is still feeling bad.
Other
than the meltdown, Kaylee has been doing GREAT! She is making
a lot of progress. Today she sat up by herself for 20 to 30
seconds. That is a huge improvement. She say's ba ba ba ba...
a lot. And we found out that ba ba means father. :-)
We
are looking forward to getting to Guangzhou. We will miss
Daphne and Ellen, but we won't miss the cold, damp, weather.
And we were getting really bored at this hotel. It's just
time for a little change. In Guangzhou we will stay at a hotel
called the White Swan. It is famous for people from the US
adopting from China because almost every family stays there.
The US Consulate is in Guangzhou and so everyone has to stay
in town for a few days and the White Swan is the hotel that
most families stay at. The White Swan has a children's room
with toys. And there is a famous couch that all of the adoption
groups put there babies on for a group picture. I will email
everyone our group picture when we take it.
I
better go. It's late. My girls are sleeping. And I know Naomi
will be up in a few hours finishing her packing bright and
early.
Mark
(Naomi & Kaylee)
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