Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Family Day

Family Day-

At 9:30a today we went to the civil affairs to pick up our children.  There were a total of 6 families waiting to meet their children.  4 from the same agency and 2 from a different agency.

When we arrived 2 of the children were already there.  Shortly after more children started to come in.  Brian peaked out the window and thought he saw our girl.  He did! Brennan went running out to meet her but she ignored him.  They brought her over to me.  She was not happy.  Her foster care officer told her in Chinese that this was mama and daddy.  They had been preparing her because she carried with her our family pictures.and she pointed to the pictures and knew who we were.

Of course it was hard and lots of crying - fussing.  It is hard because she understands and knows what is going on.

Our Guide told us the ones that cry the hardest intially turn out to be the happiest.

But within a few minutes she settled down and showed us her memory book that the orphanage had made. What a great thing for her to keep.

As the day went on, she went through spurts of crying but at the same time became more and more interactive and playful with us.

Boy does she like to eat.  She has a snack of some sort in her hands.

We ate at the Holiday Inn express with all the other families for dinner after a long day.  We all enjoyed sitting down to chat.  Our girl ate well.  It will be interesting to see how her tastes change.

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