Clara and Lucia

All is well with us. We are just now working to get on a regular schedule for all of us. So far the girls are doing really well with their sleeping and eating. We have introduced a number of new foods from the breakfast buffet - sweet potatoes, eggs, noodles, bananas. So far they have not turned any of it down.

Mei seems to still be adjusting and maybe missing her foster mom. She likes to be held and while she is generally happy to go along with whatever we are doing, she can get overwhelmed. Fen is pretty smiley and tends to put up with a lot of our nonsense. She is any easy audience.

This afternoon we went for a walk in a garden we can see from our window. It is actually a private area for the apartment buildings next door, but the guard didn't seem to mind letting us in.

Our friend Samantha loaned us a couple of snuggies (I think that is what they are called) for walking with the girls. We brought them, but thought it would probably be too hot to use them. The girls actually love being in them facing out to see everything that is going on. That has made it nice for us to take some short walks around here.

When we are out lots of people come up to us to comment on the very peculiar sight they see. First, there are very few foreigners in this city, so from the start we are a spectacle. Then we have two Chinese girls strapped to us, who are twins. To top it all off (actually, our behavior must also just be really odd too), the girls have the thick curly hair. We heard that only 1 in 1000 Chinese people have curly hair. That is still a lot of people with a population of 1.3 billion, but still of interest. We see lots of slack jaws as people ride by on their scooters or walk without looking where they are going. Evelyn told us that if we go to other parts of the city people will stop us and ask to have photos taken with us. There may be a money-making scheme in this somehow. So far people have been very kind and have indicated the girls are lucky.