Hi to CaliGirl.

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So the mother-in-law is off to the airport now, actually she might be almost there.

Li went with her. She actually offered to pay his train ticket one way but not the other way. It has been an extremely expensive two and a half months.

I am not going to go there as it will make my sleeping in headache much bigger. I will miss having a babysitter though.

I think JiXiang knew something was going on when the suitcases came out. She REFUSED to sleep all day yesterday. She conked out for maybe 2 hours in total. Needless to say she looked like one very stoned baby – all glass eyed and zombie like. Because she was so tired she wouldn’t eat properly. This led to her waking up at 2 in the morning very hungry then at 6, then 7, then 8:30ish. She has now been sponge bathed and danced to Nickleback (very cute) and has fallen asleep again.

I went into my slightly pushy leadership roll and took over the packing of her suitcase. I actually got her to understand, with no translations as Li was at work, that looking all nice and expensive was not required, wearing the heavy clothing was. Her suitcase is not quite a kilo over, so she should be ok. He carry on bag is personally a tad heavy but there is nothing that can be done about it. All of her gifts are packed and all of the clothes that she brought with her are sitting in a bag on my floor. The clothes she bought are packed.

We have to send a box of her stuff that she couldn’t pack. She gave us some money for it but I have a feeling it is going to be very expensive – the bag of clothes is 5 kilos, plus there is a jewelry box and this crazy kitchen set.

Oh well.

After my headache subsides, which it is starting to do as I am eating breakfast finally, I am going to do some house cleaning. The house is mine again and there is some major organizing shit I have to do. One is to get my kitchen back in order. I believe that all of the frying pans belong in the same area!! That way you can find them when you need them. That and vacuuming.

Later Ji and I are going to head to this baby shop near by and look for a special rain jacket that attaches onto my carrier. It is rainy season and I have to walk Ji to daycare.

I am also very happily listening to the Real Player Radio. Ahhhh, English radio! I am listening to The Wolf right now from Saskatchewan. (WOW I spelt that right the first time!! I use spell check hehehe)

OH and I have French nails now!!

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Yesterday I was on the computer and Li comes into the room

- SIT UP!

My tongue sticks out – Plaaaa..

- SIT UP! It is good for your health. It helps you breath better.

= Stop smoking! It is good for your health. It helps you breath better.

- I am.

= WHAT?

My dearest husband has taken on his own initiative to first cut down and the quite.

- Every day I smoke a little less.

= How long now?

- Only three days.

=/ - HAhahahaha

Though I will notice that when we went to dinner last night he only smoked one on the walk there, normally at least three, and during dinner he only got up to smoke twice.

Ahhhh, maybe just maybe he will succeed. BUT I am going to keep my mouth shut. Try any way.

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Have I mentioned that Ji can roll over now?

Not front to back. She has been able to do that for a while.

She is ALMOST, about 7 eighths of the way there, back on to front!

AND she is doing crunches all the time as she is able to lift her head a few inches off the ground now.

She is going to have killer abs.