From Jodi:  We woke up in Guangzhou today, extremely happy to be on the last half of our trip.  We were exhausted from our trip here, but we had to be up and ready to leave by 9:00 for our doctor visit.  This was quite an experience.  Eli was pretty excited to ride in the large bus we took to get to the hospital, since he loves riding in any type of moving vehicle.  This was where his enjoyment ended though.  He did not like the doctor visit and spent the majority of it curled up in my arms with his thumb in his mouth.  He did, however, take his thumb out of his mouth in order to take a swing at the nurses who were trying to get his height and weight.  This little dude is one fiesty pistol.  We managed to help him through all of the necessary steps, including a shot that he was none to happy with...except for the M & Ms that followed it.  Eli most certainly clings to me in unfamiliar situations...which has been most situations as of now, but his attachment to his dad is growing each today.  Mike was the only one to get smiles out of him at the doctor visit.  In fact, it was more than smiles.  After his last step of the doctor visit, Mike and Eli got into one of our regular tickle wars.  It starts with "One, two, shwee..." and then tickling.  The belly laughs that were coming out of our room attracted the attention of several waiting adoptive families as well as several nurses who had to peek there head in to see what was going on.  I'm sure a few of them were thinking "Is this the same prize fighter that was in our room fifteen minutes ago?"

This afternoon the three of us went for a walk around our hotel and explored the area a bit.  Eli was as curious as ever as he took in all the new sights.  Since we were without a nap today, we decided to eat early so we could head back to our room for an early bedtime.  The low key night has been one of my favorites so far.  Mike and Eli both sat in bed and watched Sponge Bob Square Pants in Chinese while eating a bag of shrimp puffs.  Eli was in charge of the bag and would give the puffs to Mike only when he had checked to make sure the first one was gone--something his mom has had to do with him over the past few days.  I enjoyed watching the two of them and there boy bonding as much as anything we've done so far. 

Eli will fit into Shelhamer movie nights just perfectly!