Day Two Recap

Hey everyone,

Just a quick update from me today.

After our drama yesterday morning, the rest of the day went well. Bo may have turned down every food we offered in the first three hours of our day, but he made up for that real quick by eating a ton of noodles, yogurts, fruit cups, juices, cheerios, chips and crackers. In between meals, we walked around quite a bit and managed to track down a memorial park. There they had no children's equipment, but plenty of gated room for Bo to run free. It was cold enough to snow a bit here last night (we have decided to call it a combination of smog and snow - smow).

After mulling over whether to try to the Spiced Donkey Meat from room service or eat more popcorn chicken from KFC, we went with KFC for dinner (especially since our English speaking friend was on-shift once again). Our hopes are that Michael, our guide, might possibly have a meal with us at some point today so that we can have his assistance in translating, etc.

We wanted to hit the pool yesterday, and we stopped by to investigate the facilities - and Bo was not real keen on the idea of going into that big tub of water. He may just require the coaxing of a very warm Louisiana summer day to get him into a pool of water.

I imagine that Bo was prepared by his caregivers very well for the day that he would leave the orphanage, and the first few days (first full day alone with us) he has done admirably well. He communicates with us using gestures and simplified speech, and he is learning his first English words (like 'No' each time that he puts a LEGO in his mouth or attempts to plug in the headphone adapter into the wall outlet).

Thankfully, we all went to bed no later than 8:30 last night - though that might mean an extra early day for Bo!

If you have audio on the video clip, you can probably hear me call Bo 'ru-ru' (as well as Boo-Boo - I must stop calling him Bo-Bo altogether as I will inevitably confuse Bo-Bo with Boo-Boo on occassion). From our understanding, Ru-Ru is the equivalent of 'chubby boy'. After reading Heidi and Jason's blog about their boy being 'nu-nu' and not 'ru-ru', and initially seeing Bo in his 3 layers of clothes and housing candy bar after candy bar, Alison and I joked that we adopted the ru-ru. We have since found out that he is a skinny little guy, but his eating patterns may still earn him that nickname.

Based upon Bo's pre-disposition to grab any thing he can get his hands on at the store, I am not looking forward to our shopping excursion that is planned for today.

It is now 3am so will try to get some more sleep before our very energetic boy awakens once again.