It's Christmas Eve!

Merry Christmas - Eve! Today Katherine (Jiang Ting) got her medical exam done along with a hundred other babies. She refused to have a male doctor and ordered that a female doctor be brought in before she would cooperate. After that things went much smoother. We were told that she needed 2 shots and it turned out she needed 4. She took every shot without flinching or even wincing and watched the whole thing without one tear. I was amazed. The doctor was concerned about her vision in her blue eye and asked if we knew if she had trouble seeing with it. We told them no she is only deaf, and her eye sight is fine. They didn't believe us so they first tested her for color blindness - she passed right away with no trouble and then they made her take an eye exam using the eye chart - she passed that with no trouble too and I think she amazed the doctor. I was so proud of her!

After that we went to Shamian Island for some shopping. We have quite the bargainer in our family now. Every time we were in a store she would take the calculator (which every shop owner has to show the price and negotiated price) and ask how much. When they would tell her she would either say yes or no or punch in a new price on the calculator to see if they would take it. She always told us when we paid too much. Sometimes she gets a little bossy and we have to remind her who the parents are. Yes, she's definitely getting comfortable with us!

Thank you Carolynn for the great tips! We did get some chops ordered (chinese stamps with our names engraved in American and Chinese) and went and ate at the Bridge and Cow Restaurant. They serve delicious Thai food there. The weirdest thing that happened to us today is I was asked if I was Chinese by one of the shop owners. She said "you have Chinese hair and eyes, are you American"? She also thought I was much younger that Mike. She said "oh, you have a much younger wife" then she turned and looked at me and said "how old are you?" you should have seen her face when I told her I was older than Mike! I loved every minute of it of course. Then another lady came around the corner and said the same thing - "you have Chinese hair!" Meanwhile Jayde was shopping for a ring for himself and the shop owner there thought he was buying it for his girlfriend - they thought I was his girlfriend! He told me he can't even take me to China without people thinking I'm his girlfriend. Poor kid! But everyone commented on our large family and how very tall Jayde is. He has them all amazed.

Tomorrow we are touring a Chinese Tea House for Christmas after that more shopping on Shamian Island.

I would post pictures, but Mike is the one that does that and right now he's snoozing, so we will post them tomorrow.

We hope you enjoy our video we made just for you! Wishing every one a very Safe and Happy Christmas Eve!