Long Day!!!

Today we had to make a trip back to Mayleigh's birth city, Nanyang, to get her passport. It is a 3.5 hour drive one way! So we headed out in a nasty, dirty minivan with the hardest seats I have ever sat on! Of course since Mayleigh's coping method for her grief is to sleep she fell asleep soon after we headed out. She was only awake maybe an hour of the 3.5 trip. I guess grieving that was is better than crying! But poor sad girl! She just looks so sad. I know it's just going to take time. There is a blog I follow of a family who adopted and when they got her she was so sad. But the transformation in her sad face to such happiness in a week or two gives me hope!! :) After Mayleigh woke up we needed to change her diaper..so since there are no car seats on china we just layed her on the seat and did it while the driver was driving. Not fun but it worked. The unfortunate part was tat she leaked out the side of her diaper ad her onsie was wet. Great! I brought just about our whole hotel room with us fit this 7-8 hour trek...EXCEPT extra clothes! Poor girl just was going to have to wear it anyway. Then as we get to mcdonalds to grab a quick lunch before getting her passport picture taken..she has leaked again! Oh, this day just keeps getting more crazy! So on the way my guide tells me that Mayleigh has to sit perfect for the passport picture and not cry, she has to sit on her own chair and if they don't approve the picture you have to come back to nanyang to redo it! Oh fabulous..the child who has a 102 temp, has never gotten out of our laps without crying, and was just given to these strange people 48 hours ago!! I'm sure this will go real well! ;)
So first attempt...she is crying really hard and they finally said they got one. They did but it was the worst picture of her. Such a pouty face...but at that point, done!! Who cares! We take it to the building next door and the officer says she doesn't approve! Back to the picture place for round 2. More screaming and crying. Actually that was the loudest we had heard cry! They tried giving her candy. A huge piece of hard candy. I was not happy. Now she is still screaming with a piece of candy in her mouth and if you know me well you know my huge phobia of choking! So now I'm freaked out and I want the candy out. The guide was speaking to her on Chinese trying to tell her to spit it out! Of course everything we have given he today food wise she spit out...but nope,  not the candy! She tried her first French fry...spit it out! :) so now we are fishing it put of her mouth. There can be no tears in the picture so I'm wiping her face the whole time. What a nightmare! Finally they got one they approved!! So now as we drive the lovely 3.5 hours home she has been passed out the whole time from all that trauma! Just don't get why all this has to be so hard for the kiddos! Just being given to complete strangers is enough!!
Here are some pics of her birth city. It is a huge city...11.5 million people. We asked if we could go to her finding place but our guide told us it was actually in a county of Nanyang so it would take us another hour to get there. So we opted to not go and take a picture since it was already 3.5 hours one way.

Mayleigh would not look at the camera! And yes that is a bottle. We have tried 2 sippy cups and she will not drink from them. So gotta do what we gotta do for now! 

YAH for McDonalds! I am getting sick of chinese food! This tasted SOOO good! 

These pics were taken for my boys! That old tractor!! 

Double car carrier for the boys to see! 

Mayleigh is still not feeling well. She sleeps a lot. It has been really tough to figure out if its from her grieving or if she is feeling that sick. We are taking her to the Zhengzouh orphanage this morning because Show Hope has a care center on the 3rd floor. The nurse is going to take a look at her. They also have some meds that Dr. Steve from MBHOH thinks we should try. Hopefully we will be able to get a urine sample and find out if she has a UTI. So thankful again for all of Show Hopes help with Mayleigh!! Dr. Steve has been amazing.
We laugh though because of lot of people we are traveling with think she just loves us because she is always snuggled up to us. But really she doesnt like us yet...she just likes to feel snuggled but when we look at her sometimes she covers her face with that dumb sweater! Jeff and I just laugh. What else can you do. We hope with time she is going to realize we are not going anywhere and we love her!!! But for now we will take that she lets us hold her and comfort her! Baby steps...