Greetings from the Azalea City. Wait. Greetings to the Azalea city? We went to a beautiful garden today and look what we saw!! Julianna loves to be outdoors. She looks at everything and makes vocalizations. She has not said any words. This has been her favorite mode of travel...

Aways with mommy; she still will not go to daddy. This has resulted in very sore arms, wrists, back, legs... We got her a stroller this afternoon and she fortunately took to it. Some of the children in the group are very resistant to anything except being carried.

I honestly cannot decide if things are better or worse. She is definitely more interactive and no longer in shock, but this means that she is also more opinionated and unbelievably vocal. Ear drum rattling screams. It is also difficult to figure out what she wants. Yesterday she could not be without her sippy cup. Today, she was ambivalent about the cup, but had an absolute meltdown over a benedryl bottle. She will not take a bottle. We have tried three different bottles, including one that the orphanage gave us with a pre-cut nipple. It even had the formula mix in it on the day we got her. We also tried a sippy cup, which worked for someone in the group. She will eat most any table food and has been drinking water, apple juice and pedialyte. She likes noodles. We got her a noodle cup from the local 7-11. It was sort of a ramen noodle thing--freeze dried, just add water and enjoy. The label is entirely in chinese and we were picking up different cups, trying to guess the ingredients by the pictures on the top. We tried to find chicken, but ended up getting seafood--squid and octopus. We discovered this when I was stirring the cup and up comes an octopus tendril. Yuck. She ate the noodles. Didn't give her the tendril.

The White Swan has a very beautiful waterfall and Koi pond. Julianna loves to look at the fish. This is probably the most expressive photo we have of her so far.