Shopping

You'll never guess where we went shopping yesterday afternoon.



For $18 we bought 4 bibs, 2 pair of shoes, baby shampoo, 2 bags of formula, 2 tubes of Colgate. We also purchased 4 large bottles of water, 2 bottles of Fanta orange and 2 cans of Cola Light (Diet Coke). Not bad.



Do you like Megan's first pair of shoes. I wasn't sure what size to buy so I purchased two pair. The smallest size fit. It is Chinese size 11. I shared the size 12 with Megan's friend Candice. She is 15 months.


Alison asked about the tags. Yes, everything is in Chinese. There are lots of American products and those are in both English and Chinese. Same with the signs, lots in both languages.



I have some pictures of Megan from yesterday. I will post them later.

Adoption Day

Here I am getting dressed for my adoption day. Today I am wearing a 3-6 month outfit. I really suck my bottle down so I might move into 6-9 month clothes very soon.

While Mommy and I were hanging out in the lobby Daddy keep taking our picture.


Finally we made it on the bus and away we went to the Civil Affairs office.



When we got there we had our first official family picture taken. The they took a picture of me for my passport. After that we met with an adoption official. Mommy and Daddy had to list their occupation, say why they wanted to adopt a baby from China and what my education would be. They said I could have as much education as I wanted. Let's see if Daddy is still saying that if I ask him to pay for my masters!

After that it was off to the notary office. The man there asked Mommy and Daddy to say their names. Then daddy said my name. He then asked if Mommy and Daddy were satisfied with me. He asked if Mommy and Daddy would ever abuse or adbanoned me. They said never. After that we were handed an official form that says Mommy and Daddy are my forever parents. I am officially adopted and part of the family for ever and ever!!

I really love my Daddy!

I can't wait to meet everyone. Mommy keeps telling me that I will have lots of fun people to play with.

Love,
Megan

More Pictures

It is now Tuesday morning. We still have a happy baby. She went to bed about 8 last night and sleep straight through until about 5 this morning. Yeah! She did wimper a few times, but never woke up. When I leaned over the crib and said good morning she smiled!! Just melts my heart.

She is so happy. She had cried some, but not much. When she has cried we have meet her need and she stops. She lets us know when she is done with tummy time, or ready to stop laying on her back. The only real cry we had was at bathtime. We took a very quick bath.

The picture where it looks like she had pants up to her arm pits is to show you how big the 9 mo Carter pants are.

Today we head back to the civil affairs office to make our adoption official!

More Pictures

Gotcha Day

Gotcha Day

Now that you have seen all of the good stuff here is the scoop. We went to the civil affairs office and were taken into a room lined with seats. After we were there for a few minutes the babies came in and the caregivers sat down on one side of the room with the babies. We have pictures of Megan sitting on the caregivers lap. They called families forward in alpha order, so we were first. The looked at our passport and coming to China notice. After all the names were matched up the director of the orphanage handed me Megan. She almost immediately smiled! She is the happiest baby! One the bus ride back to the hotel she was smiling and jabbering and would squeal just a little bit about all the exciting things she saw out of the window.

She seems to be very healty. She had something on her neck it is kind of scaly. We are not sure what it is. She has something mean going on her bottom. I am not sure if it is diaper rash. It is pretty severe. She is slathered with diaper cream at the moment, and if that does not work it on to plan B. She has 2 teeth on the bottom. She is not as developed as the paperwork said. She can not really sit up. She falls over. We have had her laying on bed. She turns her head to get a good look at the action, but makes no attempt to roll over. She is 7 kilograms, which I think is 13 pounds. She can wear the Gerber onsies that are 6-9 mo. They really srunk when I washed them. We have put her in 9 mo Carter pants and they are hanging on her. I should have gone with the size 2 diapers. The tabs on the size 3 almost cross in the front.

We can not put into words how incredible this day has been. Currently she is sitting on Chuck's lap talking to us as I type this.

Chuck needs to run to do paperwork. More to come later.

Chuck, Wendi and finally Megan!

Greetings from Nanchang!

We made it to Nanchang (pronounced Nanchung) this afternoon. The flight was rough. There were lots of turbulence. I did not think I was going to make it without being sick. The worse part about it was that our guide was seated next to us and I could not talk with her. She and Chuck chatted. It has been quite the experience so far. Defiantly not a tourist area. When we were driving in everyone was staring at the Americans on the bus.

When we arrived housekeeping came up to bring us a crib, stroller and baby bath tub. We then went to a local supermarket for baby supplies. We had to walk about 10 minutes to get there. Once we entered the store it was a little overwhelming. There a lots of American products here. We were able to purchase a package of Chips Ahoy, Oreos and Huggies diapers. Chuck is going to try a new flavor of Lays chips, Texas Grilled BBQ. I will let you know how that goes.

We opted no to join the group for dinner. We ordered room service, which was good. They have a thing for fried eggs here. There was one on my Club Sandwich and also on Chuck's cheeseburger. The food in this region is very spicy so room service may be the norm for us. Quite the adventurous!

We are both very calm about tomorrow. I know that we will both cry tomorrow. We attended a short Sunday service held by one of our group members this morning and everyone was tearing up by the time we left. We are ready. The diaper bag is packed and I put the bottles together. This is her mixture for a 8 oz bottle... 3 scoops of formula, 6 scoops of rice cereal (the brand is Heinz) and 1 scoop of sugar. Yep you heard that right, sugar. A lady in our group said that her first daughter would not take the bottle without the sugar. She said that we will need to wean her off of it.

Tomorrow we will be posting as a family of three!!!