sick babies

The babies from the Ji An orphanage are all sick including Sadie. They have a nasty chest cold and can't lay down without hacking viciously. Last night and this afternoon when Sadie went to bed or napped she hacked the whole time. It's heart breaking to hear her suffer like that. When she's sitting up and playing she's fine. We had one of the agency people come check out Sadie this afternoon when she was napping and of course when the agency person was there Sadie slept like a rock and didn't cough once. Tonight we're going to give her some expectorant before bed that should help her cough and sleep.
Its really frustrating to just be hanging out in the hotel in Nanchang doing nothing while we wait for Sadie's passport - especially when Sadie is sick and should be home seeing her pediatrician in NYC. I don't get the timing of this process, I'm sure we could have gone to Guangzhou yesterday and started the US immigration work instead of hanging around here until Friday! That's still two days from now. I think the process can be streamlined for everyone's sake. I hate to complain after everything the agency has done for us but a lot of people in the group are confused and frustrated, especially the ones with the sick babies.

This computer isn't letting me upload pictures right now so that will have to wait until tomorrow. By the way, everything is in Chinese on the computer and browser so it's kind of challenging to edit photos and work on the blog - especially when the computer sucks to begin with. And, I can't see the postings because I guess blogs are not allowed here. One thing I learned on this trip for next time is bring plenty of medicine and your own computer.