• lily on adoption day

    Officially Ours – Lily’s Adoption Day!

    The past 24 hours we have been Lily’s guardians. Today, according to Chinese law, we became her parents! It is her official adoption day! Here’s what went down: Little Miss Lily slept until almost 8:00 today! Her nanny said that she normally woke up at 7:45, and she was right! After everyone got dressed we went down to breakfast. We had to meet in the lobby at 9:30 to go back to the Civil Affairs Office, so we were a little more rushed than normal. We fed Lily some traditional Chinese food for breakfast and she once again scarfed it down! The girl can eat for sure! Having my mom…

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    The Day We Met Lily

    Today we met our Lily! We enjoyed another hotel breakfast Monday morning followed by another visit to the fish and gardens. (This time the kids were in actual clothes). The kids had a great time running around the gardens while Brian and I sat on a bench in the sun. Then the official adoption part of the trip started off with a group meeting at the hotel. We are in a group with 9 other families from Lifeline who are adopting children from Guangdong province. We spent a few hours going over our schedule for the next 2 weeks and preparing our paperwork for this week. It was so great…