Another lovely day...

My favourite photo of today!

I am happy to say that it loooks like Little Alexander likes to sleep!!!!!!!

We had nothing on our schedule today, so we decided to take it easy and try to sleep in....the little fella woke up at 7:40 this morning, we then took him into our bed in between us, schmused a bit and then we all fell asleep again: TIL 9:oo am!! How great is that. We then had breakfast, played a bit and then went to a shopping mall. The first time we used the new stroller we bought for him here in Shanghai. It is not so easy ( as you parents know) just going out for a short time, my god we do look like we are going away for a weekend. All this stuff needs to be loaded to a taxi and then of course unloaded...and we haven't even started the shopping.

We bought two pair of shoes (one pair was 4,90 Euros and they are extremely good quality, the other Euros, just to give you an idea of the prices down here). I bought also quite a few clothes for him and a huge bag of Pampers, which we definetely need. Since last night we have number 2s...and plenty of them ( I know: OVERSHARING!). It's a good thing, considering that quite often children coming from orphanages have serious problems with digestion. So, all is cool and groovy....and a bit smelly.


Even Lars enjoys going shopping now...no complaints about some weird and sudden backpains (this used to happen, and mostly very close to a pub). When he got bored, he just went outside and had stroller-trolley race with the other Lars, the father of Bertram.
We than a lunch at BURGER KING, hmmm, how nice, after all this chinese food, even junk food tastes wonderful. This was also the very first time our son had french fries...and he loved it. Btw, doesn't Lars looks good behind the buggy?

After our return to the hotel we had an one hour (!) afternoon nap, but then it was time for another corridor-marathon. It is just so funny to see the kiddos runing the corridors. They are probably so used to do that whilst they where in the orphanage and being in the baby walkers all the time. Back and forth, make a turn in a half circle and off again, and no collisions only the occasionally fall. It is weird to see the kids falling: No reflex in protecting the head, they just fall over on their forehead...and not a single time we saw them crying, they just get up and run again.

Alexander got really upset when Lars picked him up and brought him back into our room. The little munchkin was sweating from all this running, but didn't want to stop. He really has his own mind, and a very strong one it seems. But after a few minutes and a few crackers he was fine again. We decided to spent the evening here in our hotel room, just the three of us. How nice, we played and heard quite a few giggles. He has such a sweet little voice, and his smile is just winning. He also started to enjoy having a bath, he spent about 20 mins in the tub, playing with his toys.

Now he is asleep, and we finished our daily corridor meeting with all the other parents. What a nice group we are. A really nice atmosphere. Tomorrow we have a birthday party: Marius, one of the little boys will turn 2 tomorrow.

Despite the very nice place here, I must admit though, that we can't wait to come home.

That's it for today. Nighty night!