March 24. Cooper woke up this morning with a lot of energy.
His file had told us that he was “an active boy.” That was spot on. It also
said that he didn’t talk. That was dead wrong. He never stops talking! Of
course Brady and I don’t understand any of the words he’s saying but he has
great hand gestures and facial expression so it’s not hard to figure out what
he wants. Vivian can understand many of the words he says and I swear he
understands everything we say. He’s getting comfortable in this little hotel
routine we have. He likes to go to breakfast and have steamed bread and
spring rolls. He is overly independent just like Nash. He wants to do
everything himself and he doesn’t want mom to wipe his face ever. I took him to
the bathroom down the hall from the dining room once and now every time we go
in there he thinks we need to hit the bathroom to just for fun. Brady has been
teaching him how to run the elevator buttons so he likes to do that also. Every
time a phone is pulled out he smiles and poses. Sometimes he smiles so big his
whole face scrunches together and his eyes close. It’s hilarious. He has a
super strong will and is already testing us to see what he can get away with.
He loves having our full attention. Hopefully he’ll love the attention of his
siblings too when we get home. He’s woke up smiling every morning so far and
hasn’t even cried one time yet. It’s easy to love this squishy little boy.
After breakfast we met up with
Vivian to go do some more sightseeing. The highlights were riding the Tianjin
Eye and hanging out at the river. The Tianjin Eye is a giant farris wheel that
is built right in the middle of two streets that span the Haihe river. It’s the
biggest farris wheel I’ve ever seen and takes about 30 minutes to make one
rotation. Today was a very clear day so we had great view of the city from the
top. Buildings 360 degrees as far as the eye can see. Cooper was pretty nervous
about it and didn’t want to move from my lap. By the end of the ride he
was sleeping.
After the ride we had fun walking down the river and learning about
all the happenings at the river. We watched some guys with nets pulling turtles
and fish from the river. We thought it was pretty amazing but Vivian told us
not to be too impressed. A little further down the river and we found the spot
where they were selling the animals to people to release in the river as part
of their Buddhist beliefs. The animals can’t survive for long in the salty
water so they fish them back out and take them up the river and sell them
again. One guy at the selling station really liked Cooper and let him play with
a turtle and catch some fish. He loved it. People have been very kind to us.
Cooper just unpacked every single thing that was left in the suitcases so I
better quite writing and go play with him. =)
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