Beijing to Zhengzhou

We traveled for 28 hours to make it to Beijing last night (or this morning really). Our flight was as good as it could have been, with no complications. We hardly slept at all on the plane... Mae slept 2 of the 14 hours to Tokyo and then another 2 of the 4 hours to Beijing. I can not even tell you how amazing my little sleep deprived child has been! We were SO VERY HAPPY to land in China and even happier this morning at 1:30 when we put on our pajamas and washed our face and brushed our teeth (:

 Our hotel had 2 twin sized beds so we decided to push our two chairs together and make Mae a little bed out of them. She thought it was a fort and was more than a little happy to have a place of her own.

We weren't even in Beijing long enough though to see it in the daytime. We met our guides in the lobby at 6:30 this morning to take a bus back to the airport to depart to Zhengzhou. 

We said our goodbyes to our sweet guides and took a 2 hour flight to Zhengzhou.

Mae is so excited to be here and tells everyone she sees we are adopting Ian and Jovie. She knows this is where she was born and is very interested in her own story.  I'm very curious how seeing her brother and sister come into our family will bring up new questions for her.

When we got on the bus to our hotel in Zhengzhou our guides gave us an update on the babies. Both still take a bottle and have a good appetite. Sounds like both sleep well but are on a little bit different schedules. It said that Ian does not like baths but Jovie does. It said Jovie is stubborn and has a strong personality and is afraid of strangers (So we will be finding out for our selves tomorrow but it sounds like we got a fiery girl!). It said Ian is lively and active and he likes animals.

We are at the same hotel we were in when we adopted Mae and I feel like this has to be the exact room... as if seeing TWO CRIBS in your room isn't enough to make me sob! My mom said, "I think this is the very room you were in with Mae, Mae took her first bath in that bathtub." unreal --- my mind has so much swimming inside of it.

Cody is at the bank with our guide right now exchanging money we will need for tomorrow and when he gets back we are walking down to the three story Walmart to buy diapers and baby formula.

Tomorrow morning we will be leaving the hotel at 9:30 to head to the registration office to get Ian and Jovie. We have no idea when their orphanage directors will get there with them. I don't know who we will get to meet first. ahhhhh this is like a dream to be back here... I don't think it's even sunk in that this is our very last day we will ever spend without them.