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Info we received about Lexie today… She is about 33 inches tall and about 20 pounds. Hong Yun Qi is living with a foster family. Her foster mother is Chen Huo Mei (age 59) who stays at home; her foster father is called Lu You Gen, who is retired. They have 2 biological sons and one biological daughter. (We didn’t know this – we thought she was in an orphanage…)

Yun Qi takes different types of food each day. At about 6am she has 200ml of cow milk and then has a small bowl of noodles, a steamed bun, and then an egg at 8am. At noon she has a bowl of rice with meat and vege soup; at 3pm she has a steamed egg. One hour later she has a steamed bun and for dinner has a small bowl of rice with meat and vegetables. She goes to bed at 8pm and gets up at 5:30 am the next morning. During the day she sleeps from 1:30 to 3pm. She sleeps alone at night in a quiet environment.

She has some potty training but still wears diapers.

Her foster mother usually gives her a bath once a day in the afternoon. She likes bathing. She doesn’t want to leave the basin after her bath. She can say a few words, such as mama and baba, which mean mom and dad. She sucks her thumb or finger when falling asleep at night. She dances by waving her hands when hearing the music. She can drink cow milk from the bottle by herself. She reaches for the spoon when being fed. She is social; when she is crying, her foster mother takes her to see her peers, and then she stops crying. She kicks the door open if she wants to play outdoors. She can climb up and down the stairs with one hand being held. She is a little bit shy in front of strangers and gets upset in a strange environment.

She likes being taken out by her foster mother. She likes playing with the neighborhood children. She likes playing with the table telephone. When she gets upset, her foster mother soothes her by giving her a candy. Cow milk is her favorite food.

Her foster mother says she seldom gets sick except for some coughs and colds. Up to now, her foster mother hasn’t found any medicine or food that she is allergic to.