Thursday, May 17, 2007

passport day

on tuesday we took samantha to the embassy to get her passport and register her. it was her first day to breathe the fresh smoggy beijing air. i hope she's not addicted to the air and doesn't turn out to be a smoker someday.

a few people have asked if she will be a dual citizen, but china doesn't grant that so, she'll just be an ordinary american citizen. i guess when you already have 1.3 billion people to worry about, why should they throw in a few foreigners?

typically when a chinese lady has a baby they stay at home for a month afterwards and don't get out of bed (they don't brush their teeth, take showers, comb their hair, etc...). apparently it's good for recovery and the baby. so for us to take samantha out on the town after 3.5 days, it turned some heads. not to mention that we don't have anything to carry her in, because she's too small for the baby bjorn thing. so we just carried her around, oh well my guns are getting bigger from carrying a 6 pound weight everywhere.



3 comments:

Heather said...

SHE'S SO ADORABLE!! Hope Mom is feeling well! Please tell Rach we say hello!

Sarah said...

she is sooooooooo sweet. prt-asian babies are adorable, especially quarter korean ones :) i could mail you guys my sling to borrow to carry her in if you think it'd get to china before samantha's 15 years old! it's a "peanut shell" sling - google it and let me know if you'd like me to fed ex it.

Sarah said...

got you msg on xanga...is there an address in the states where i can send a card?