We are adjusting to being a family of three! The hardest part has been having to give you medicine four times a day. Ugh! You just start to like us and then bam! Here come some more drops in your throat and drops in your eyes! The medicine, or the cold, or both, are making you sleepy, but it works out just fine since Daddy and I can't get enough of snuggling with you!
Last night, we got you to bed quite easily, due in large part to the cold and the medicine, mostly likely. Then today we played, held you, gave you your bottle and some rice cereal.
Funny story about that. It's funnier when Daddy tells it, so you'll have to ask him to act it out for you. The hotel where we are staying, the Radisson, is great. Beautiful hotel, excellent food, and wonderful staff. They even have a family floor, the sixth floor, for those families traveling with small children or those families that are adopting. The family floor has a beautiful playroom with lots of toys for little kiddoes. Anyway, when we arrived on Monday, the family floor was fully booked, so we got a room on the 16th floor. It does give us some amazing views, that if for sure. Another great thing about the hotel is that it is well-furnished and well-stocked for families with small children and babies. A wonderful crib for you, a baby bath, formula, and cereal were all there waiting for us. Only thing is that because there were so many other families with babies there, they were out of rice cereal. All they had was wheat or mixed grain. We knew your foster mama had started you on rice cereal, but weren't sure if she had tried any other grains yet, and we really didn't want to take a chance of an allergic reaction when you were already sick and medicated. So Daddy went down to the hotel gift shop to get rice cereal. They were out, but the concierge told him about a little store just a couple blocks away that was sure to have it.
He thought, "Ok, I gotta go get the rice cereal." So he walks out the door and down the block. Security is a different thing in various countries around the world. In the next block, where a building was being constructed, stood several guards. Armed guards. Guards with big machine guns and very serious looks on their faces. It's a little unnerving to encounter something like that, especially when you have just arrived in a foreign country and you don't speak the language. Anyway, Daddy is courageous, so he continues on his way and eventually sees the little store. He goes in, finds a box of baby cereal, and heads back.
Uh oh. It's multigrain!
By this time, it was getting too late to try again. We figured one night without cereal would be ok, and we'd deal with it in the morning.
Mommy went today in the other direction, found another hotel with a gift shop, and got the rice cereal.