Tomorrow is the day!

Our group is now three families that are adopting. The family of 6 is adopting a little 18 month boy, Ania and George are adopting a darling 2 1/2 girl and us! It will be so great to be with these families and their new little ones through the whole trip!

We flew to Mae's hometown today! We are so close to her now... breathing her same air. The city is so big but different in a great way; we absolutely love Zhengzhou.

There was a crib already in our room when we walked in... you can imagine the emotion we felt when we saw this. It is overwhelming to find the words.
We walked to Walmart to buy her formula and took in the sights along the way. Walmart is a 3 story building a few blocks away from our hotel. (Our hotel is one of the nicest places we have ever been in and our room is beautiful with big windows - a happy place to bring our girl back to.)


We are talking to our guide Yisha above. She is so nurturing and kind. She has worked with our agency since 1995 and is very experienced. Cody did notice she is like our personal body guard too, as we maneuvered walking the streets, there were several times Yisha would pull us back or step between us and the on coming cars.
So tomorrow is the day that we have dreamed about for so long, and I want to write a long meaningful post about how we feel but to be honest we are so emotionally drained it is very difficult. We did get an update when we arrived, so I would like to share with you what we found out today about our daughter.

They told us her all about her schedule and naptime, what she eats and drinks... "She likes to take a bath, she likes banana, She sleeps in the crib by herself. She sleeps on her back without any lights on. She does not need to be held to fall asleep. She gets along well with others. She is an active and lively girl. She seldom cries or gets fussy. You can hold her and give her toys and snacks when she is crying. She can walk by herself now. She loves busy places and wants to play where there are more people. She likes animals, especially dogs. She often plays with little dogs."

Tomorrow, we will leave our hotel at 9:30am and drive 15 minutes to the registration office where we will get our daughter. The orphanage director is asked to bring the children at 10:00 but sometimes traffics makes them late... she will be coming from an hour away and the other two children will be coming from 2 hours away, but we will definitely have her in our arms by 11:00! (that is 11 Sunday night back home.)

I am going to get some rest. BIG emotional day ahead for us all.