Our Daughter Lina

Here are some pictures from 11/17, when we were still in Nanchang.

The Tengwang Pavilion in Nanchang is famous for its beauty and even moreso for a poem about its beauty. Wang Bo, one of the “four geniuses”, wrote the poem during the Tang dynasty, roughly 1200 years ago. The current building is the 29th [...]

Just a quick note to let y’all know (can you tell we’ve been hanging out with folks from Athens, GA and Nashville?) that we are now in Guangzhou, and very happy about it. We’re in the White Swan on Shamian Island, which has a bit of a New Orleans feel to it, strangely enough. Partially [...]

Today was a great day with Lina. We’re learning so much about her and about how to be parents, and she’s learning at an amazing rate. She fussed at times and had a hard time going down for a nap, but she’s a great baby and we’re loving being her parents. We have some pictures [...]

Here are some of Stephanie’s pictures from her trip to Tonggu yesterday.

Along the way, the bus ran into a monthly market that had traffic completely blocked for an hour. Here are some vendors selling dried…something: fish? meat? wood?

The unusual sight of a bus full of Americans with babies caught the attention of the crowds of [...]

Stephanie went to Tonggu today, which is where Lina was born and lived for the first eight months of her life. Stephanie will write about her experience on the trip on her page; she took a bunch of great pictures and we’ll try to post those soon.

Yesterday I gave my camera a rest. Stephanie took [...]

Lina is napping. Stephanie is on an 8- or 9-hour round trip to visit the Tonggu Social Welfare Institute (SWI), which organized Lina’s foster care, and I’ve been taking care of Lina all day. We decided not to burden Lina with this trip. Maybe if we were more experienced parents eight hours with a baby [...]