Double Happiness Boys: Adoption Day for Liam

We were up at 3am and Liam was up by 4am. We were the first to breakfast and off to the CIvil Affairs office for another fun day of 2+ hours in a crowded room full of babies! Actualy there were 4 families and it was not that bad. We learned today that Liam apparently has tapped into some eternal life force that keeps him going and going and going! We have taken probably 100 pictures of this little man in the last 36 hours and the only ones not blurry are when he is either sleeping or eating b/c any other time he is just not ever still!

He fell asleep on the ride to the Civil Affairs office and slept quietly for about 20 minutes and I got to do our paperwork first. Then he woke up and roamed around the room for another 2 hours while the other families completed their portions! He moved furniture, threw every block and toy item in his bag, ate another 1/2 container of Gerber puffs, played with all the other kids' toys while they were either busy with their parents or not looking. Closed the door about 50 times, and stood on the window sill hollering at the busses and cars that passed by. He likes to hear them honk and usually hollers and points at the window when he hears a car horn.

We had dinner at the Western restaurant last night and had some chinese noodle, wonton soup and indian chicken curry which were all decent meals. Liam ate his and started in on my curry. He is not sh about eating at all. Later he fell asleep around 8:30 after getting to see his daddy and brothers and sisters for the first time. He liked the computer keypad immensely. We decided to sleep when he sleeps and were done by 3 am just in time to get up and ready before he got up at 4.

This boy eats constantly. He ate 2 packs of oatmeal before we ever went to breakfast, ate egg, dumpling, watermelon and cantelope, a whole yougurt and some of my toast. That was all before the 1/2 container of Gerber snacks at the Civil Affairs office.

We found out today he was living in a foster home with an older couple in their 60s who did not have any other children in the home. Apparently they devoted their full time attention to Liam and he is continueing to desire this. He is a little bossy and when he wants something points with his finger on the table as if to say "and put it right here".

At lunch today I shared my noodle with him but he did not want cut up noodle from a baby spoon. He wanted noodle from my plate to be fed with the fork. I can see a power struggle coming on :)

He cried quite a bit for his nap today and even threw a little temper tantrum. Eventually I won and he took his nap and is currently still sleeping.

This afternoon we may venture out to a little store a few doors down to check out some Liam snacks since he is going to be depleting our stores quickly!

I've added a few pics from today to let you see him in action!

Have a great day and more tomorrow from Taiyuan. We will be going to PinYao market for a little sightseeing of the ancient areas there and hopefully take some pictures and get some souveniers.

Amanda and Paula and Liam in Taiyuan, Shanxi, China