Happy Birthday!!!

Guess who turned one today?

Natalee's first birthday party at the Cow and Bridge restaurant, which is a Thai place here in Guangzhou. The food was great. Also in the picture are James, Jeanne, Ryan and Lilia and Jeanne's brother David who is helping them out on the trip. Our guide Cordellia was able to join us for a little while, but she has a sick baby and had to go check on her before picking up another couple at the airport tonight. Wendi and Todd Larson were hoping to join us with their baby Alanna but Alanna was not feeling well so they could not make it. Fortunately it sounds like Alanna and Cordellia's baby are both starting to feel a lot better.

This is the cake and card that our hotel made up and delivered to our room. The card has Natalee's Chinese name on it which was really cool and the box was beautiful. It was a great suprise for us and it was sure nice to have a birthday cake for Natalee on her first birthday.

Today we went to the passport office to get Natalee her Chinese passport, which completes the Chinese paperwork portion of the process. Natalee is completely ours, now we just have to do the US paperwork so we can bring her home (although I have to say the food has me tempted to stay a while). Natalee is still doing great. She is smiling and jabbering a lot more today and is wanting to explore and check things out a little more. She is definitely a mommy's girl and gets upset anytime Tonya leaves the room. That comes in real hand come diaper time.

Well, that's it for today. Tomorrow we get to tour a Buddhist Temple which is supposed to be really cool. I'm sure we will have lots of pictures from that one as well.