Wow! What a day!

We have had an exciting day!  We have had great bonding moments as well as, moments of great boundary testing by two cute, sweet little boys!!

Today we visited Seth's orphanage.  His orphange is about two hours away up in a beautiful mountain area, so we had a full day.  On the van ride there both boys fell asleep, Caleb on H.O. and Seth on me.  Seth sweetly curled up in my arms, wonderful moments!

Seth after his nap:

Caleb during the ride:

Arriving at the orphanage:

Fuling Orphanage was very open, they let us look throughout and take as many pictures as we wanted.  Much different than the Chongqing Orphanage.  So many sweet faces wanting a family of their own to love them.  The hardest time for me was going into the baby room, walking from crib to crib seeing those precious little ones.  Some without emotion but one little girl who would just smile and smile, too precious!

Lunchtime:

We then saw where Seth was found as a baby, right outside of this gate:

This is the street the old orphanage is on where he was found:

Seth is full of energy but, while touring the orphanage we saw a real wild child come out.  Our guess is by watching him and the other children they can run freely!  We will have to reign him in!  After visiting both orphanages our guide then took us to lunch.  We have now eaten in an authentic Chinese restaurant!  The food was good, but definitely a neat experience to eat where Chinese people eat.  It was all Chinese, no one spoke English.  Our guide ordered for us.  The boys both really enjoyed it!

We then drove to see the Yangtze River at a park overlook.  There were older men there flying kites, the boys enjoyed that.  When they finished "helping" the man fly his kite, the man said something to them in Chinese.  The boys started walking off hand in hand, as I was saying to our guide please tell them to come back over here, they took off running.  Well, before I could blink H.O. and Andrew took off running after them.  They got a good ways before Andrew got Caleb and H.O. got Seth.  H.O. wants it noted that at this point he can still out run Seth!  :)  I know we were quite the entertainment for all those Chinese eyes watching us.  We corrected the boys, and I tried not to laugh at the whole event, but it was quite funny!  We never figured out what the older man had said to the boys and what they were running after!

Right after the running incidence, notice we are holding onto both of them and Caleb is pouting refusing to look at the camera!!



Back at the hotel the boys had a great time being silly and playing.

Caleb putting stickers on his face:

Knocking down empty water bottles with a ball is so much fun.

Their absolute favorite time of the day is bath time!  They have not had bubble baths before.  When I put the toys in the tub and start running the water, they start laughing and clothes start flying!

Relaxing, watching a little t.v. before bed:

They have certainly tested the boundaries today, multiple times, but aren't these just the most precious faces!!

Loving my little boys!