Sorry for the delay in posting this from Scout (sent right before my visit and I’m horribly behind with all this travel!).  But she has an awesome update for Xi Dou 2016 Cub and it even has a cute video of one of the cubs learning to crawl!!

“Hi again everyone! We’ve been pretty busy here the past couple of weeks trying to recover from the madness that was golden week  and catching up on all the observations we missed due to the crazy amount of visitors at Bifengxia. We’re also prepping for Meghan to come visit for a couple of days as well as Celina’s parents, who hopefully, will be bringing us flaming hot Cheetos (YAY)!”

They did indeed get the flaming hot Cheetos

The plethora of American junk food that Celina’s mother and father, Mary and John, brought for the girls.

Bliss!

“Anyway, I’ve decided to make this blog a Xi Dou 2016 cub appreciation post as I’ve been watching Xi Dou recently and think she’s an amazing mother (and I also have a lot of adorable photos of one of her cubs). Xi Dou has twins, boy and girl, and they are just over a month old right now.

Xi Dou 2016 cub.  The babies pretty interested in me!

Xi Dou 2016 cub again – so cute!

Xi Dou is very attentive when it comes to her cubs and it’s interesting to see the babies react to her. Whenever she goes to pick them up, the cubs seem to vocalize more as if saying “Come on mom put me down, this is so embarrassing!”

Xi Dou 2016 Cub – Mooooomm!!

Along with cute photos, I was lucky enough to get a video of the boy cub vocalizing with mom and a short clip of him struggling to learn how to crawl!

https://youtu.be/NNBq1mEQaHo

https://youtu.be/1o51gSW5b-U

I’ve also attached two videos of Hu Chun, who I was observing for stereotypes this week, who was being really silly and climbing a tree and playing with the broken branches while somersaulting.

https://youtu.be/tWYl9acokhE

https://youtu.be/PHIFcKWO2to

Enjoy!”

-Scout