Today this morning we met up with the Lifeline families and all went shopping at a wholesale mall. Their were four floors of jewelry stores! Yikes. Maybe I should back up...all the Lifeline families that received their children last Monday like us are with us in Guangzhou this week for our consulate appointments. We have them at different times this week, but are all at the same hotel, and can participate in activities together. It is so refreshing to see God at work in so many families.
So everyone else sits on the bus, Sihua stands! The guide was giving instructions for tomorrow's plans and she was doing this on the headrest in front of her listening intently for instructions (in English!) She is smart beyond what we can handle! She goes, goes, goes and then falls asleep.
There is a pediatric nurse with us who understands the severity of her diagnosis and could not believe she was HLHS. Huahua is a strong willed fighter, till she runs out of breath and then wants uppie!
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| We call this the Sihua Strut! One arm swinging, with all the confidence in the world! Every once in a while peeking around her back to make sure were still with her :) |
We visited the Chen Ancestral Hall built from the 1888-1893 during the reign of the Qing dynasty. It provided temporary accommodations for the Chen family people when they came to the provincial city for official business. All the wood, stone, brick cravings, and ceramic sculptures are done by hand.
Before we got into the Hall she spotted these cars. It didn't take long to figure out these would be a lot of fun. A nice lady said we could use them. Not sure if they were for everyone to use or what, but Sihua is not the kind of girl to wait around for permission! She tried to drive for awhile and it was not going well. So after a bit, she got out and just started pushing it around.
Then we lost our group but found our way into the hall. Apparently you needed tickets to enter but our group had already entered without us. So we just went up to the lady and said in our English and lifted up our baby, "we're with a group". And she said 'yeah, yeah go in!" It was quite obvious, 10 American families had just entered 10 minutes before us with little chinese children and then here came the stragglers....The Oehlhofs!!!
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