Four Hills At Last!



Beth, Melissa, and Charity - Three women I've become so close to and relied on through this process!



Yesterday was a very long and crazy day! I won't get into the gory details, but we spent 8 hours on a bus, a shuttle, a plane and back on a bus again. Unfortunately circumstances made it so that we weren't able to get lunch before leaving HK, and we arrived late to Nanchang which meant no dinner either. Thank goodness for the granola bars and trail mix that we packed!

Jaden taking in the sights of Hong Kong through the bus window.

So we arrived in Nanchang oh so tired, soggy from standing in line for the plane in the pouring rain, starving and very, very excited. The babies had already arrived at the hotel and were waiting for us to get there. Evelyn, our CCAI representative, said there is usually an hour long meeting before the babies arrive, but there was no time so she had to give us the abbreviated version on the 30 minute bus ride to the hotel. She was talking away, but I think all I retained was "the babies are waiting at the hotel"! This was it, our Gotcha Day!

Once we got to the hotel there was no time to go to the room, we just lugged our carry-on's up to the meeting room and minutes later the orphanage workers would bring out the babies! There was a maylay of cameras being handed to others further down in the baby list, quick camcorder directions, getting into position, and then the doors open. Lucy was baby number two. She is so beautiful! I've wondered a million times what that moment would be like when they put her in my arms. Nothing would have prepared me for the moment we had - it was absolutely perfect! I took her from the nanny and those big brown eyes just locked into mine forever. She stared at me and took me in while I fell instantly in love.

Hello sweet girl! How amazing to have her in my arms at last!

Daddy's girl already

Finally getting to hold my sister at last!