Day four with Ella. Today we signed more papers to get her passport. We should get it tomorrow. Ella and I went with Michael to the immigration office to prove that I was the one adopting her. Not sure what that really proved. Just another hoop jumped through out of many.

I think things are getting better between she and I. She will now let me dress her without fighting me and I bathed her tonight. Dale still had to be in the room but she didn't fight me. She didn't enjoy it as much as she has the other times. Maybe she's really tired. She wouldn't even sit in the water.

Tonight Logan, Noah and I went to eat in the restaurant downstairs. Dale ate some noodles we bought at the store the other day so he stayed in the room with Ella. We actually had fun. They weren't actually open yet when we got there so we waited for them to put all the food out on the buffet one dish at a time. After a while they would pass by our table and show it to us before they put it down. We all got a lesson on how to use chopsticks. We ate all of our food with them and we were actually pretty good at it. We found some spaghetti and we ate all they put out on our first helping. They didn't put any out until they thought we were through. Huh, they don't know my boys very well. I ate some dumplings and some noodles with vegetables. I guess it's true, you really will eat anything when you truly hungry. Actually, it was pretty good.

Well, Ella is getting sleepy and I want to lay down by her. To be continued.

Priscella