The Canfields in China

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Hey there, I know most of you regular readers are looking for pictures of Emma’s birthday and I’ll put them on the very next post but at the moment I wanted to post a few pictures of the city from the 33rd floor of an apartment building (thanks to Randy & Pam for hosting the [...]

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Tomorrow Emma will be one year old and to celebrate yesterday we took her to her first Doctor’s visit! (Well the first one with us anyway). We took her to a very nice facility that we wouldn’t even take ourselves too ~ it’s not on our primary insurance provider list ~ but we are [...]

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Ok, so there is a Toys’R’Us in Shanghai now, and like almost every other western company their venture into the vast 1 billion consumer potential marketplace of China isn’t exactly like home but it will do. This particular branch of the store resides in multi story mall (one right next to the River across the [...]

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Well I go back to work officially tomorrow but this evening Angie & Amy came over to bring a couple of gifts for Emma, and ended up staying for dinner! They’re both good friends of course and very sweet girls too. The beautiful dress Emma is wearing in the pictures is one of the gifts [...]

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We’ve been having a lot of fun the past two weeks obviously ~ however in the area of sleep we are still a little less than rested. Today marks two weeks from the day that Emma was brought to us in the hotel at Nanchang and we’ve had 3 full nights sleep since that great [...]

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Ok, today we’ve got a picture in during a cab ride, another shot of Emma and a friend and some more pool shots! It seems like Emma really does enjoy the water and since school starts soon we’re trying to go at least a couple more times before I go back to work.
Emma & Molly               [...]

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Hey we are again, I’ve never “Blogged” so much in all my days…of course up until a few months ago I’d never blogged at all so I suppose it really isn’t like I had a large sample size to compare overall ‘blog’ quantity against right?
So we’ve now taken Emma to 2 western style restaurants and [...]

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Emma is doing good, developing and bonding and eating SO MUCH… ok so the mandatory Emma update has been posted we’re clear to discuss other stuff. Although i’m not entirely sure what els to write about…I haven’t watched much tv outside of a few clips of the Today Show here and there in the morning, [...]

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WE SLEPT THROUGH THE NIGHT! If you’ve been following along you’ll understand why that was in all CAPS. It was our first full nights sleep in over a week and wow did we need it, we’re wiped out but still going of course and a lot of our exhaustion has been caused by joy, blessings [...]

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