Sunday, November 18th
We requested a lot of information about Claire (Ge Ke Jing) from the orphanage. As new questions arise, we will keep sending lists of questions to our Agency, in the hopes we will be able to get as much information as possible about our little girl!

The most recent info included her updated measurements: As of November 9, 2007, Claire is 35 lbs and 41 inches .

She has been attending a boarding preschool, where she lives during the week, and returns to the SWI (social welfare institute) for the weekends. Apparently, she has not been in school very long.....she is not reading, but, does speak Mandarin. They have been trying to teach her simple English words!

At this point she is not aware she is being adopted, they are waiting for our package to arrive with the photo book we sent her, and then they will show her all the photos, and explain who we are......

Her favorite food is apple, but, she will eat all kinds of foods.

Her favorite activities are playing with toy bricks (I am planning to get some wooden block sets ...... ), dolls, playing games with other children and simple computer games!

We have been lucky enough to hear from quite a few people who have adopted children out of the same Beijing SWI. We have photos of the SWI, and it looks clean, and well supplied. The computer room looks bright and cheerful. We were so pleased to receive those photos!! Any information we can get about where our daughter is from is priceless to us.