Gotcha Day!!

Gotcha Day!!

We meet Nina yesterday (January 9^th)! 

It was an adventure to get to Nanchang.  We met our guide, Lucy, at 9:00 and made our way to the airport.  When we arrived we were told that the airplane was still in Nanchang with mechanical difficulties.  Not exactly what you want to hear especially the mechanical difficulty part.  It was unsure if we could even make it to Nanchang that day.  After much discussion and about 1 hour later we learned that luckily they brought a new plane into service and it was on it’s way from Nanchang. 

When we arrived our Nanchang guide Evelyn met us.  She has been helping with international adoptions for 10 years and is very knowledgeable about the whole process.  We heard that the babies are on there way to the hotel, we will meet them at 5:30. In 1 ½ hours! 

 

We all meet in a large conference room in the Galactic Peace Hotel.  A family from BC met their son first when he arrived from the local Nanchang  Orphanage.  Then the Jianxin babies arrived.  We were to be third to meet our baby.  Mia and I are standing in line with the door and we see her as the door swings open.  Mia just kept saying, “she is so cute!” She was wearing a blue “Pleasant Goat “(Chinese cartoon) outfit and underneath a  shirt and pair of split pants.  Nina did not cry and just kept looking at us.  She really focused on Mia and I think Mia really helped with the transition.  We were able to go to our room and get to know her in a more quiet spot.  

Back at the room we were able to get her to giggle and smile.  She is ticklish under her arms.  She is fascinated with her feet and hands.  She makes a fish sound when she is happy.  She says “dada” and “nan nan”.  She chews on her fingers.

She did not want to eat but we were able to get about 2 oz into her. She went to sleep while I rocked her but it took 2 tries to get her in the crib.  Nina slept until 2:00 then woke up for a bottle and a diaper change.  Then slept until 6:30 this morning.

Today (January 10^th) we went to the Civil Affairs Office and completed all the Chinese paperwork for the adoption.  Nina is forever ours!  Now we wait for the Chinese passport to be complete and then next week we fly back to Beijing.

Mia would like to say hello to all her friends in Mr. Roscoe/Mr. MacKay’s class.  She loved your comment on the blog Mr. MacKay and she said, the food is “ different”, the temperature is “cold”, the sports are “tai chi and ping pong”.

As you can tell...we are not able to post on Facebook or onto the blog at this point.  I have not had much time to work with it but one of our travel group members who is quite tech savvy says his Facebook is off and on.  I am getting the comments from Facebook and the blog sent to my email so we do get to see those.