What day is it???

I'm confused on what day it is? I think it's Tuesday for us here??? Well, Emma is using the toilet now. I'm sure she'll love reading this when she gets older and I'll get it for sharing that! But it's pretty important, ya know? Now, she does use it backwards and I have to hold her over it, but hey, she goes! If this were a film, you would have heard sweet music playing this morning... We got to sleep in this morning after we all had a full night's sleep. Then I had a nice hot shower. Emma woke up happy and asked to go "nyow nyow" (potty). We all got dressed and went down for breakfast. We decided to take the stairs since Emma hates elevators. It's only 4 floors. Then we all had a pretty decent breakfast in the hotel. Emma sat in my lap and ate 2 bowls of congy (soupy rice). Then she noticed Ellie stand up to stretch, so she wanted to stand up and stretch. Then Ellie sat back in her chair, so Emma decided she wanted to sit in her own big girl chair. Then she wanted her congy and to eat it by herself. But she was so small in that big chair that her eyes weren't even above the table. So I tried to help her... she almost dumped the bowl in her lap. This is when the sweet music fades and the scary music starts... dundu dundu dundu (that's my imitation of the music from Jaws). Spoons, forks, bowl of congy all began to fly as she went in to a frenzy. So I said, "Keith, I'll meet you and Ellie in the room, I'm gonna take her back." Oh, the stares.... She was hitting me and kicking her feet and throwing herself backwards. The waiters came up and tried to help and offer her banana bread, which she tried to knock out of there hands. I quickly walked through the lobby to get on the elevator. It was like in those movies where the corridor seems to get longer and you can't get to the end. Unfortunately a business man was in the elevator and gave us the raised eyebrow. I had to put her down when the doors closed because I almost dropped her. She ran to the door as it started to open and her little fingers got caught. I quickly pulled them out. They didn't seem to be hurt, it just scared her and made her madder. I quickly got to the room and prayed that the key would work this time. Thankyou God, it did! We got in and I sat her on the bed and firmly told her "No". She is really testing her boundaries and trying to figure out her role and ours. She cried and cried on the bed and I gave her her space. Then she went back to the window and behind the table like she did the first day and the angry cry turned into a pitiful grieving cry as she called her mama (and she didn't mean me, she wanted her nanny mama). She grieved quite a while and when she calmed down I went over to her with tissue and dried her tears and she let me love on her. She's been soooo loving to us ever since then. Giving us tons of kisses and snuggling up close to us. It's almost like she just needed to confirm that she is safe and has boundaries. I'm sharing the good, bad, and the ugly, but I think all of this is part of bonding because I'm falling in love with her more deeply by the minute. I thought she was choking on a piece of candy this afternoon and Oh my gosh, my heart completely stopped. Ellie keeps saying, "I can't believe I have a little sister." She does this adorable little look where she cuts her eyes at you and then looks down and smiles all shy like. She has 101 expressions and mimics everything we do. She's so playful and jumps in and joins us whatever we're doing... stacking cups, airplane rides, hoarsy rides on Keith's back, tossing the beachball, coloring, she even pretends she's talking on her little play phone when she sees us on the phone. She dumps out whatever we put in her snack cup so we'll sing the cleanup song and all pick them up. If we are watching TV or on the computor, she will playfully try to get our attention by tickling us or throwing the ball or a cherio at us. Everything she does is a first for us so it's sort of like watching your daughter take her first step or say her first word. It's every emotion you can imagine. Today, our paperwork was canceled because someone filled out a form wrong. Poor Sarah has to deal with that today. Keith got to work-out and then came back and gave me a massage. Then Ellie laid down and wanted a back rub. When I started rubbing it, Emma came over and helped. It was so cute. Then Ellie faked a nap so Emma would lay down and take one. While Emma is sleeping, Ellie and Keith went to walk around the hotel. She spotted an indoor pool. Bummer we didn't bring our suits. Maybe we'll go get some if we can find them cheap somewhere. There's a park next to the hotel, so we're walking over there when Emma wakes up. Tomorrow we visit the orphanage. I'm pretty nervous how she'll handle it. And the drive is kind of long. We are thinking maybe just one of us go and the other stay with the girls. We'll see... But I know those of you that have there sweet babies there and are following this blog are dying for tomorrow to come. We'll do our best to love on your children and take pictures and video for you.