Today was our last day and we got to visit Malia in the orphanage once again. We got hung up in traffic on the way. The traffic here is extraordinary. To our advantage our driver is also extraordinary. When we entered through the gate at the orphanage many of the children were outside playing. As we walked we spotted our little yellow puff ball walking towards us on her own. We got closer and spoke to her as we approaced and she went right to wendy smiling with her arms out. It was perfect. I would swear she knows something has changed since yesterday, I pray she does. We walked around to the other side of the orphanage today and played on some slides and other plastic play sets. She is such a content little girl. She has the cutest smile. Wendy would start her down the slide and I would catch her at the bottom and throw her up in the air. She loved it.
We got out some of the toys we brought and she sat down in Wendy's lap and carefully played with each one. Wendy had to blow her nose so she got out a tissue from her bag and Malia was all about it. She is fascinated with tissue and watched Wendy so intently when she blew her nose. Wendy gave Malia a clean kleenex and she mimic'd Wendy. then she carefully put the cleanex back in the back and zipped the zipper up. then, she took a little electronic book that sings kids songs when you turn the page and decided it needed to go into the bag too. Just a little heart breaker. She is all about her momma! Watches every move and wanted to go to her all the time. It was great. She'll understand the coolness of daddy very soon, dont anyone worry about that.
Finally, we took her back inside to try on some clothes we brought to see what would fit and what didnt. Wendy took off her snow suit and she knew to put it up in her locker so I helped. We sat her down to start putting her clothes on and noticed she hadnt put her shoes for outside away. So I gave them to her and she walked over to her locker again. I shut the door and noticed that she kind of hesitated and pointed at the door but I didnt realize why. we sat down again and realized she didnt have her inside shoes. Her hesitation was because she knew she needed them. We were totally screwing up her routine. It was cute. It was like a different girl with these different clothes on. She cooperated so so well. We took her passport and visa pictures with one of the little dresses on her. We changed her back into her clothes and she was starting to get tired of the whole ordeal and we eventually experienced her first meltdown with us. I mean screaming crying tears. It was all too much for her. But momma got her in her lap and she layed over into her chest and calmed down. It was precious. Wendy got to see where she slept and ate and bathed which was great. Today was the best day we have had with her, which was appropriate I think. Her world has been so small. We're gonna take care of that! Fortunately we left without time to get emotional. But we KNOW when we are returning so it is all good!
I cant thank each of you enough for your kind words of encouragement, prayers and interest during this process. It has been hard. But we will soon be complete and this little one will have a family. How fun is that?!
But there are still so many........
-Scott
A beautiful family!!!
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