Hey Guys!  Sadie is continuing to do well!  She slept all night last night.  No tears.  I think her feet were in my face at one point but that's ok.  After about midnight I am up anyways for several hours.  Her big personality is coming through. I thought she was going to be shy but I don't think that's the case.  She's actually quite funny and a little sassy.  Can't wait to see her and Brennan together.  We face timed with the boys today and Brennan said Hi Sadie;)  

Sadie is knowing us by name now.  She will look at pics of her and Mag and say Song Yi (her Chinese name) and JeJe (big sister in Chinese-thats what she is calling Maggie now).  She also looked at Keith today and said Baba (Chinese for daddy).  Our guide asked her in Chinese did your mom buy you those pretty shoes today on our way sight seeing.  Sadie nodded her head yes really big.  I feel like she knows what roles we are going to play in her life even if we are still figuring some things out.  

She thinks Keith is funny but still doesn't really want much more to do with him than that.I think this will be a short lived phase but we will see. He is giving her some space and we are hoping she will warm up quickly.  She and Maggie are still inseperable.  I love it.  Two sisters not by blood but by love.  I love being able to teach my kids that.  What a cool lesson to learn.  Maggie said someday I am going to adopt from China.  She hasn't even seen the orphanage.  After that she will certainly want to!  Speaking of tomorrow we will be going to the orphanage.  Hopefully it will be a good thing.  We have been told it will be good for Sadie to say goodbye to everyone there.  Kind of a closure thing I guess.  We will see how it goes.

Anyways, today we did some sight seeing this morning.  There are some mountains in Changsha.  We went into the mountains to a place called YueLu Academy.  It has lots of history there.  Some things very old and just historic.  It was pretty neat.  It was hot though and being as I am the only one who can hold Sadie except for Maggie a little bit we didn't stay as long as we would have otherwise.  We came back to the hotel and Sadie took a nap and then we went swimming.  Sadie was a splash machine.  She didn't get all the way in but stood on the ledge and splashed and splashed.  She was so cute!

This is outside of our hotel this morning as we waited on our guide to come get us.  It is really pretty. The water has fish in it. Apparently Sadie loves fish.  She kept saying something and the guide said she was saying a lot of fish.  Then another time she was saying no fish here.  

 These are all from the YueLu Academy. The landscape was so pretty.  Keith told our guide he was so happy to get out of the city for a while;)

 Seriously Keith.....  I didn't even see him in the picture till after I was taking it;)

 Ok how cute is she.  She is a trooper too.  She was a sweaty mess. She deserved that popsicle she got when we were done!

 Ok so now on to something super cute!!!  Check out this bathing suit.... In China you have to wear a bathing cap to swim.  Totally adorable...

 She is the biggest splasher you will ever know..  The ground all around the edge was soaked!

 Okay and I thought I would take one for the team.  My family has been hysterically laughing just thinking about us in our swim caps.  I def look like a pirate.  I think even Sadie thinks I am funny;)

 

Connor, Sam, and Brennan-  Love you boys.  Sadie is getting sassier by the day.  She is going to fit in at our house just fine.  Hope you guys have a really good day today!!  We are counting down the days till we get back home to you guys.