Prayers, please!

Hopefully, Charles will get out of the shower and add a picture or two so nobody comes to China to slap me for posting withot pics!  Anyway, Mia hit her wall last night at dinner!  She saw her food and just started crying.  It was a fried rice dish, but she gagged with the first bite.  She was crying that she missed her home, her Nana and Papa and American food.  She also had a bad headache because she is not eating enough.  NOT like her, but the food is just so strange to her.  The milk is weird, and that is just killing her since she really only likes milk and water.  Yesterrday when we ventured back to my favorite Walmart to get KFC for Kennedy, it was a mess.  We had to order off a special picture menu.  I think Kennedy must speak a slightly different local dialect, because the lady did not understand her well when she tried to order for us.  Anyway, Mia ordered what looked the most like regular fried chicken.  Unfortunately, it was flaming hot, so she ate  only fries and ice cream.  Super healthy meal.

 

It was the saddest scene.  I tried to hold it together, but I cried a little too.  Right there at dinner.  Awesome.  I am so exhausted.  Sleep is still not working out for me.  Kennedy looked so concerned.  Charles used the translator to explain what was wrong.  She nodded and kept patting Mia and holding her hand.  She is so amazingly sweet.  I took the girls back to the room so Mia could calm down.  Kennedy fluffed a pillow for her and got next to her on the bed.  They sat close together and quietly watched Toy Story 3 on the computer while I forced Mia to drink some cup-o-soup.  We will probably have to shorten our posts so they can use the computer more often to watch movies.  That was very helful, actually.

 

I took Mia to help her take a shower and put her in bed while Kennedy took a shower.  When she came out, Mia was asleep.  Kennedy covered her up gently, then got in bed and scooted closer to her to sleep.  It makes me cry right now thinking about how sweet that was to see.  I also shed a tear thinking that soon, Kennedy will go through this much harder and for much longer when we return home to what we know, but she does not.

 

Wow, this is wonderful and super hard and emotional all at once.  BTW...speaking of emotional...Charles made an amazing Gotcha Day video for Kennedy like he did for Mia.  He is so talented, that man of mine.  His attemptsto post it to the blog from here have all been blocked.  I really hope he figures out a back door for that so you can see it before we come home.  If he does, have a tissue ready!

 

Sorry, he is still in the shower, so no picture for now.  We will post again for sure with pictures.