An Aerobic Sleeper

The first night is over (for me at any rate, everyone else is still sleeping, including Elijah.) It went very well. He laid on the bed between us and went to sleep around 9 pm without a fuss. He likes to have his feet massaged, so I took advantage of that and rubbed some cocoa butter lotion in to start to soften them up while I relaxed him. It was so cute, because if we stopped rubbing, he would move his foot back into our hands so that we would start again.

He rolls all over while he is sleeping! This is his first night outside of the confines of a crib, so he was really testing his freedom. When he encounters resistence (like a pillow) he just lifts a leg and works to get over it. While it is cute while we are awake, it is a little tougher to sleep through. He also rotates. His head was up with ours at times. At others, we were an H. He never woke up, though. The thumb goes in and out of his mouth all night. We have never had a thumb sucker before, so this should be interesting.

We gave him a bath last night so we could start to wash some of the grunge off of him. He was unimpressed. He refused to sit down and screamed the whole time. I at least got the dirt out of some of his sores and put some antibiotic ointment on them before we put on him jammies. We did not even attempt to brush his teeth. One thing at a time. Maybe today we'll try that.

He has a cold that I can feel rumble in his chest. He coughs and his nose is runny. I suspect that may have played into his strong reaction when they gave him to us. Who wants new people when you are sick? It should be gone before we travel with him, but hopefully he won't have shared with us by then!

We have to be getting up soon. We have appointments back at the Guangzhou Civil Center Office to make the adoption final. Right now we only have temporary custody. We are scheduled to leave at 9 am from the lobby (that is 8 pm EST). I pray Elijah wakes up cheerfully! At least we know he is persistent and still has spirit. We a have always said that after parenting Kailey as a baby, we can handle any spirited little one!

Kailey and Justin are going to play on the island with Nana and Papa. There are statues everywhere that Mom wants to take pictures of with them.