Less than a day until we get Cao Ai Hua
By Terry R. Cassreino
BEIJING - I know everyone is thirsting for information about the baby, so I’ll share with you what little we know.
A narrative provided earlier today by Holt International Children’s Services gives us the following information:
Ai Hua feels close to her caregiver and the children in her room at her orphanage. Her pet name is Yur Er, although I don’t know what that means or how to pronounce it.
Ai Hua eats formula with rice cereal seven times a day. She also eats noodles, vegetable soup, snacks and small biscuits.
She is fed by her caregiver by spoon or bottle. And she sleeps alone on her back from 7 p.m. to 5 a.m. with a small wall lamp and quiet environment.
In the afternoon, Ai Hua takes a nap from 12 noon to 1 p.m.; she hasn't been toilet trained and is still in diapers.
She likes bathing and “splashes happily when bathed.” She plays with all kinds of toys, likes to be held and is nervous around strangers.
She had no note attached to her when authorities found her. Sometimes parents will leave notes with their baby; that didn’t happen, possibly because the mother feared being tracked for breaking the law by abandoning her child.
The correct pronunciation for Cao Ai Hua’s name is Tchou (pronounce the “t”) Eye Huwa.
On Monday, Pam and I will leave the Kunlun Hotel at about 8:30 a.m. (that’s about 7:30 p.m. Sunday in Hattiesburg) with other Holt families going to Jiangxi province.
We will arrive shortly after noon. We don’t know exactly what time we’ll get the baby; it likely will be sometime after 4 p.m. our time Monday afternoon (or 3 a.m. Hattiesburg time).
Text and photos copyright 2006 by Terry R. Cassreino.
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