This is where keeping multiple blogs presents a problem. I felt it was only fair for Shen to have a unique record of his adoption as Kai did, but now that we're home our experiences aren't truly unique to one boy or the other (or the other or the other). I wanted a Shen's blog to be a gift to him when he is older, and I intend to convert both the boys blogs into books for them, the books will be different from, but based upon the blogs. So now I'm back to writing on "Stinky Mouse". Over the next several weeks I want to focus on two things: the experience of raising two children adopted internationally as toddlers/pre-schoolers, and expanding a bit on our experiences during our trip to adopt Shen. Now that I'm home and have good bandwidth and no "Great FireWall" I intend to post more videos and images from our trip. Though technically these might seem to belong on Shen's blog they are going here on "Stinky Mouse".

I'm a bit bummed about the lack of video we have from this trip. When we adopted Kai, Cameron handled the videography for us, and he was great at it. We have tons of video from that trip. On the plus side, we had a much better camera with us this time, and we got much better photographs of the trip, so I guess it all balances out.

Here's a video clip from the noodle buffet we went to in Xi'an. It was a tourist place, but the noodle chef was fun to watch and the noodles were truly excellent. When he would bang the noodle dough on the table it was so loud Kai would cover his ears...