Hooray for humidity!

Cheryl got here in the middle of the night last night just as we had hoped (mentioned in the last post). It is so nice to be here all together!

Also, it's lovely to be here in Guangzhou. It is humid and nice here in southern China in February (we're grateful to not be here in August). We were able to get out in the warm rain today. So pleasant!

We got up nice and early like always (the life of parents!) and went with the group on the bus to see a Buddhist temple, a cultural house called The Old Chen house, and shopping (I really wanted to get traditional Chinese outfits for the boys...I'll try to dress them up and post pics of that soon!)

Ryan also got us Starbucks during the boys' naps (so far we are able to get them to take naps together.....yay!), and we went out with the group to an excellent Thai Restaurant. Since we're in a total rut of what to eat at Thai restaurants, the four of us (Grady doesn't eat table food yet) shared some excellent Pud Thai and Massaman curry...I think Cheryl likes the old Self Thai favorites!!

As promised yesterday, here are some pictures from today:

This is Ryan and Jonah enjoying the pleasant atmosphere when we were at the temple.

While we were at the temple, Grady fell asleep on me. It is heaven to be holding that kid and taking care of him after waiting for him for so long!!

What a good daddy!!

This little boy is definitely getting more comfortable with us!

Hungry little boy wearing his daddy's hat

This is especially for Grandpa George...he's already a little baseball player!

Tomorrow morning, Katie will work with the guide and other families from our group to get all of the paperwork for Grady's visa together. The plan for now is for Ryan, Cheryl, Jonah, and Grady to go to the park playground during this. In the afternoon, Cheryl will stay at the hotel while Jonah has his nap, and we will go to get Grady's physical and his visa photo done. After all of this, our guide Grace will take all these things to our consulate appointment on Tuesday. We're not going to be here very much longer..we're leaving early Thursday morning...so we'll see many of you Coloradoans soon, and you know we will definitely come back to the great country of China in the future!!