No Kung Fu

We finished Halloween off right last night. Matthew woke up from his nap happy last night. We could tell he was feeling better so we went to dinner with some friends. He actually got down and played with Joseph and wanted to eat again so we were hoping this meant he was feeling better. 

Joseph insisted on showing us he knew how to have tea...get ready for some tea parties Anna and Lucy :)

After dinner we headed back to the room to change into costumes and do some hotel room reverse trick-or-treating (handing out candy to people as we knocked on their doors). Since at least half of our group got sick with a stomach bug yesterday our hotel room knocking was limited to only a few doors. Joseph did manage to sneak in an extra knock on the door of another family here with us who know how to make balloon animals! He asked for a red sword :) 

By this point of the night Matthew was over it. He didn't want to get down or smile so this is the only picture we have of him in his costume. He was a hockey player!

Our little UPS man didn't care he was missing out on lots more candy or "real" trick-or-treating. He had so much fun!

All went well overnight until very early in the morning when we knew Joseph wasn't feeling well. At one point he called out to me from the bathroom, "mommy, I'm going to throw out"...thankfully he never threw up but we decided to cancel out tour of the Kung Fu palace just in case. No one wants to tell a 4 year old to hold it until we can get to a squatty potty ;) Matthew was seemingly "back to normal" this morning though when he woke up! We even got our first smiles in a day and a half and I was able to put him down for a greater length of time than I had been the day before. 

Joseph and him have been playing so well today too. Matthew smiles a lot for Joseph! And Joseph never ceases to amaze us as that sweet big brother! He has done it with each of his sisters so far and now to watch him play and take care of Matthew. I can tell our interactions with him have also been helping Matthew see we aren't scary people afterall too ;) 

I found Joseph rubbing Matthew's cheek trying to make him feel better today. 

We also accomplished this today...he wasn't thrilled with it but he took it :)

Of course there were more selfies today...

And this...

So in Matthew's paperwork it said he took 2 naps a day. I can attest that this is true :) Joseph tried laying with him to fall asleep. I asked to take a picture and these were the faces I was given! 

Thankfully, Mathew fell asleep fairly quickly.

When he woke up from his morning nap he was still happy. So we went out to lunch at the noodle place again. He even was ok sitting in a high chair!

Joseph pretending he is the person hand making the noodles :)

More selfies...

Hey man, what's up?!

Oh , your hungry?

Open your mouth.

After lunch we went on a little walk. It's been cold and nonstop raining here the last 2 days so we were happy to see a small break in the rain. Ronnie showed me the 4-eleven...not even kidding, that's what it's called. And it really does have about half of what you would find in a 7- eleven ;)

So these are the sidewalks I mentioned. They are a mix of pedestrians and bikes and scooters and motorcycles. 

I'm not sure what this building is but it was really pretty.

After the 4-eleven we turned around and headed to the bakery we passed by on the way to Walmart. We picked up the yummiest looking cake. It looked like a ho-ho covered in frosting and chocolate sprinkles but it tasted no where near the same. We had been told in our cultural classes that their idea of sweets is way less sweet than our American standard. This was the perfect example. If I could have poured a packet of sugar on it it still wouldn't have been sweet enough for me! 

We headed back to the hotel to play some more before this afternoons nap. 

My sweet boys, playing together!

While I was writing this post our guide, Viviene, came to tell us Matthew's passport is ON IT'S WAY!! I guess Matthew's orphanage director went to the post office today and waited there for the mail to show up. He picked up the passport once it did and is on a bus here right now to deliver it! Viviene explained that if he would not have gone to the post office to be there for mail delivery today, it would have just sat there all weekend and not been delivered to the orphanage until Monday! So Praise God for working this out in time! We can even travel to Guangzhou now with it instead of the adoption certificate! 

Tomorrow we leave Zhengzhou for Guangzhou. It will be Matthew's 1st flight! Let's hope he loves flying as much as the rest of us do!