Tuesday January 18, 2011!

 

She is officially Veronika Fay Eileen Norby!

 

Nikki didn't sleep well, she had a fever.  She tossed & moaned most of the night.  We were all up for good by 4 am, which seems to be the normal-the time change is a killer. We started her on the antibiotics that our doctor's office gave us before we left.  We went down to our free buffet breakfast (all our hotels have had them). It sure puts the continental breakfasts at home to shame.  They have everything, Western breakfast, Chinese breakfast, lunch foods everything. You can have cereal and chicken nuggets if you want.  Nikki had her usually breakfast of Congee which is rice boiled into a kind of paste, and she had a slice of watermelon, she really liked it.  After breakfast we headed back to the adoption office to finalize the adoption and see a couple of notaries.  We were expecting an all day thing-in Ukraine it would have taken all day or several days, but we were done in less than an hour.  We signed a few documents, put our red fingerprints on our signature as well as Nikki's, took a couple of pictures, received a necklace & picture from Nikki's caretakers and we were done.  No wonder China is called "The well oiled machine of adoption".

It snowed here today; they say it never snows here.  There were about 9 men with shovels outside the hotel trying to remove about and eight of an inch of snow.    You can see our hotel if you search for Mandarin Gardens Nanjing.  It is beautiful!

We spent the day lounging around our hotel, we were tired & Nikki wasn't feeling well.  We ventured out to McDonald's for supper & Nikki had her first French fry. She was only happy when she had one in each hand.  When we took her clothes off for bed she had bits and pieces of fries in her clothes.  She really hasn't had much solid food before, she does have 6 teeth: 2 on the bottom & 4 on the top.

Nikki crawls around, pulls herself up on things but can't walk yet.  I'm sure it won't be long.  She isn't very strong but she spent most of yesterday crawling all over us.  She is tiny, the 12 month clothes are really baggy but she needs the length.  I don't think she'll be in 12 month too long.  She loves going outside, when the snowflakes hit her face yesterday she just giggled.

I can only post a few pictures at a time; I can't see the blog so I hope it is ok.  I can't see comments either, but please post them to the blog anyway.  If you want you can email them to me too,  norbycj@hotmail.com

Thanks Angie for fixing the blog.