She's Ours!!!!!

We have Alyssabelle!!!!!! She's so sweet and quiet, yet very smart and inquisitive. The nannies arrived with her after we got there so we were able to see her come in. She came with 2 female nannies and a male (I'm not sure if the male was one of the nannies or a driver). She wouldn't come to either of us and one of the nannies pushed her a little more to us and she started to cry. Brad entertained her with a sucker until she became a little more at ease and than we went off to a corner to be with her. She just sat and looked at everyone and everything. She's very observant and stubborn (she must be a Lasecki). We tried to give her a bottle and she very adamently shook her head NO. Another child tried to get too close to her and she backed right into Brad, like she wanted him to protect her. I think she's a little scared of the other kids, she seems to watch them but when they get too close she backs off.

She's only spoken once and it was when we were trying to change her and get her to go potty. As soon as I started to take off the diaper she started pushing me away and spoke in Chinese something very loudly and clearly. When I took her into the bathroom she started to cry.

After this morning, we came back to the hotel and took a nap. Later we went to Lucy's to eat and than walked around a bit. Everyone is so nice. A lady working in a shop stopped us and wanted to practice her English so we spent about 20-30min talking with her. Alyssabelle doesn't speak Mandarin Chinese but instead a local dialect of her area but she does understand some Mandarin. The lady was helping us with some Chinese words and we were looking to see if Alyssabelle understood any, some she did.

After our walk, we went back to the hotel to talk to the boys and grandma. Hi Boys!!!! She has been shy towards Brad and while walking she played a game with him. She likes me to hold her and will hold my hand but whenever Brad tried to hold her hand she would push him away, but than she would look up at him as if to say "try again". This would go on and on. Back in the hotel, we got out a beach ball and Brad has been playing with her and she's been laughing and laughing. I think she likes him now. Oh, she also loves bracelets. We pulled one out for her and she immediately put out her hand for us to put it on her. We are having so much fun with her this evening and we are glad that we finally have her. She's such a sweetie. I will post some pics after she's in bed for the night.

Boys - have fun at school today.