stitchingtochina

All worn out...Maggie too

Good big Brother. Graham loved to hold her in his lap, hold her hand as they walked, feed her, and try to make her happy. I hope she gives him even a little smile soon. He's a good boy.

Ceremony making the adoption official...didn't realize what was going on at first...couldn't figure out why the surrounded us with flags at the time. It was a nice staff. Really seemed to respect their jobs. Wish I had a picture of the orphanage director. Nice guy. Gave Maggie a little gift...Oh, and I walked around the corner and he was in the office with all the other officials smoking from a "water bong"...literally...but it was tobacco...honestly. Said the water filters out the nicotine. Someone needs to pass this bit of info to the FDA...

Finally got a picture of the front of the adoption center...site of the "hostage escape"...see what I meant by the nondescript entrace?

Yep...she eats with chop sticks...and speaks Chinese...who'd of thunk it?
Looks better cleaned up, too...another dash of obvious.

This was the morning...I slowly got her out of her layers of cloths, and she was starving and dehydrated from sweating through the night...as much as the Chinese don't understand why we don't bundle our kids up, I don't understand their tendency to put them in snow suites in July.

Still asleep...our pictures are in reverse order if you haven't figures it out yet...too lazy to fix it...we worked her shoes off in the middle of the night...but the 18 lbs of cloths and bag of stuff are still with her.

Waiting in the hall, packed and ready to leave...this was "gotcha" night...had enough of us already. She's got a thing for leaning against walls and sort of kicking on hip to the side in a pose. Kinda cute.