Growing babies and stuff

So we took Jada to the doctor again.
She gained quite a bit of weight!!! She is now 3.3Kg (7.27Lbs), which is an increase of .8 Kg (1.76lbs) in two weeks. She is also now 53 cm (20.86 inches). This makes us quite happy. She is still in the low end of the percentiles, but that is putting her against full term month old babies. She is in a good range for if she was just born. Because she has good weight gain, the doctors are not too concerned. In every other way she is healthy as can be, and we are really glad to get this news.

We pick up her visa tomorrow, so it seems like we are all set to go home next week. We are planning to do Jada's blessing while we are there, that first Sunday we are home in Lethbridge.

China is gearing up for the big 60th anniversary of the founding of the Peoples Republic of China on Oct 1. It is going to be HUGE! There have been a couple of times (one a few weeks ago, another tomorrow) where they are doing rehearsals for the parade (including tanks!) so have to shut down downtown Beijing. It would be really intresting to see, but home is more important right now.

See you next week!

fluke or not...we will see

Jada rolled over today, probably just a fluke as she is only one month old and can't even hold her head up, but it was cool none the less. She was having some belly time, we do this so she can practice lifting her head and strenethen her neck muscles, and she got her head over, took a break and then the rest of her body followed with a push. Pretty cool. You all must think we are new parents or something. hehe! It's true, we are such proud parents and we love our little girl.

We're on a roll

The Canadian embassy emailed us today and said that Jads's Passport is ready to be picked up. We are being blessed so much. We can get her chinese visa, that she needs inorder for us to take her out of the country started. Her passport is ready 5 days early, and the chinese visa should only take 5 buisness days so we should be able to have every thing ready to go by the monday before we leave. We are going to get the last steps rolling tomorrow. Mike has a day off so it is perfect timing. On the list of things to do tomorrow 1) Pick up her passport 2) Register her at the police station 3) Apply for her visa.