Thursday Night

What a day. Leila has been fussy all day. I don't know if maybe she doesn't feel good for some reason or if all the changes are catching up with her. The only time she's been really happy is when we went out for a walk or in the bathtub.
Also, Darrell has been a little sick today.
One thing with Leila, I knew that with having the cleft palate, food would come out her nose sometimes when she ate. I guess I just wasn't really prepared for stuff to come out it almost all the time - food, snot, saliva, whatever happens to be in her mouth at the time. It's like her nose runs nonstop. And she really, really hates having it wiped. If you even wave a tissue in front of her face, she starts to cry.
She's not big on eating either. At this point, the only thing she eats is a bottle about every 4 hrs with cereal in it. To attempt to try to put anything else into her mouth (whether it's medicine, congee, or anything), is cause for a huge hissy fit. No wonder she's so tiny.
Cleft babies don't really suck either. She just chews the nipple to get the milk out.
I'm really ready to get her home, so we can get started on a 'regular' life.

On another note, we ate at an Italian restaurant tonight. Yeah, Italian in China. We all played it safe with ordering. (We did NOT order the goat liver.) What we did get was excellent though.
I also forgot, that the first night in Beijing - when we ate in the restaurant in the hotel - they were playing Christmas music. If you know David, you'll appreciate that more. He loves the movie, 'A Christmas Story'. There's the scene where the dog eats Christmas dinner and they all go to the Chinese restaurant for dinner. All the Chinese people are singing - fa, ra, ra, ra, ra - ra, ra, ra, rah.

Also, I appreciate the posts. It lets me know that people really are reading this, and I'm not typing it for nothing.