After breakfast, we went back to the room and decided to go to the pool. We were really nervous how that would go since bath time is so traumatic. We are happy to report that it went pretty well. After some initial crying getting her swimsuit on, Mila got right into the water with her mama and let us play with some cups and glow stick necklaces with her on the edge of the pool. She is still trying to figure out how she feels about her Baba. Throughout the day, she was a bit hesitant to have fun when she knew Baba was near by or touching her. But we have kept showing her what fun Baba can be and he spent the day sitting on the floor with her playing games and being the only one to hand her food. Turns out that this technique helped because by the end of the day she was laughing and playing with both of us and bringing things for Baba to see.
After Mila's 3 hour post pool nap, we headed out on the town for another trip to Walmart and the mall. It was nice out today, sunny and a bit warmer. But the pollution has already started to roll back in. On the way to walmart, we really tried to take in the sights along the way and take a lot of pictures of the street vendors and shops. We are finally starting to feel a bit more comfortable here. At the mall (which is 5 stories BTW) we found out the the entire 4th floor is all for kids with lots of clothing and toy shops. There was even a kids play place with rides and games and this big tank of gold fish that kids could scoop up with nets and dump into buckets (seemed weird to us but Mila really wanted to play). Unfortunately, we could not communicate with the lady well enough to understand how to pay so we ended up just walking away. Just around the corner though, we were able to get one of our shopping items knocked off our list...new shoes for Mila! (the ones she came with were pretty beat up and tight on her) We had no idea what size she was but she really liked us and the sales ladies trying different shoes on her feet and we finally decided on little grey velcro ones with lace bows on the sides. She LOVED them! She immediately wanted out of the stroller to try them out. She was so happy walking around with her new shoes on and just laughed and giggled the whole rest of the time in the mall. Larkin said she was surprised but Bobby knew that all girls love to get new shoes.
After shoe shopping, we headed back down to Walmart to pick up a few of Mila's favorite snacks (rice milk, seaweed sheets, and rice cake like biscuits). We also scored a new find when Mama decided to try her luck and buy her a package of mini waffles. Mila loves those! We also stopped by the toy aisle and scoped the toys with her. This turned out to be a bit hairy because Mila wanted to grab every toy we passed and rip open the packaging. We ended up settling on a small plastic toy that can launch tops and small flying disks. We thought this would be good to let Baba play with her in the hotel room.
After walmart, we wanted to eat at Pizza Hut but when we went in it was like super upscale, WAY nicer than any Pizza Hut at home. It looked very trendy and there were a ton of people waiting to sit down so we took off and went to KFC again. It was right next door and we had already been there once so we kind of knew what to do.
Back in the room, night time was really fun. Mila was laughing and playing with both her Mama and Baba. We colored pictures on the bed, played with her new top toy, and found out she enjoys acting like the toy is a gun and laughs when Baba plays like he is getting stunned and falls to the ground shaking. The only bad part was trying to get her to brush her teeth. The first night, she tried it but did not like the taste of the toothpaste. We just got new stuff tonight but we weren't able to get her to try it at all because she probably still thinks its the old stuff. We tried everything we could think of including putting a small dab on our finger to see if she would just try a taste. No luck. We guess that is a fight we will have to try and win another day. Oh well, small successes and it was a good day.
