Pictures Coming Soon!

We are so sorry that we have not been posting to the blog! I got ill on Gotcha day and we also do not have a wireless connection in our room. We are going to get over to the Starbucks later so that we can upload a picture or two. We are all doing well. Emma is being a good big sister, aside from hiding toys from Sophie. Sophie has been bonding with all 4 of us-especially Greg and I. She is very smart and it is obvious that somebody has spent a lot of time with her. She knows how to play, she can put her own shoes on and she knows how to eat. She is a very docile and sweet baby. :)

We Are in Guangzhou!

HI EVERYBODY! :)

We made it to out hotel room at midnight last night. Both of our flights went well and Emma was a PERFECT angel! She has rolled with everything extremely well so far. Today we walked around Shamian Island a little bit and took a cab to Carrefour to buy a few necessities like diapers & wine. ;)

We are leaving for dinner soon and we are looking forward to getting to bed EARLY tonight. We are definitely feeling the jet lag! I am sorry that this post does not have pictures, the converter that the front desk loaned to us did not work. So, until they can find one that works we can not plug in the laptop to down load pictures...I am using the computer in he room!

We will be meeting Sophie at about 2:30 pm tomorrow! :)

Last Post Before Our Journey Begins!

The suitcases are packed, the dogs have been dropped off at our friend's house, the refrigerator has been emptied...I hope that I am not forgetting anything! :)

I will not be posting again until Sunday, March 8th (China time)! So, please check back then and every day after that for updates!

Tonight will be the last time that we go to sleep as a family of 3 in this house.....

Emma's Gotcha Day!

Emma's Gotcha Day was Thursday, February 26th! :-)

I wanted to post pictures but our camera is taking blurry pictures...I think that somebody who will remain nameless was playing with the buttons and goofed up the speed? I hope that is all that is wrong...we are leaving in 5 day and we will NEED a working camera!

We told Emma that she could choose a restaurant to eat dinner at on Thursday. At first she said that she wanted to go to "Panda" (Panera Bread). Then she decided that she wanted noodles at Pei Wei...so that is where we went. We also gave her a gift since "Gotcha Day" is like a second birthday. :-) She loved the little mirror from China.

We talked about how we met her for the first time 3 years ago and how happy we were...she listened for a couple of minutes. I think that she understands. :-)

~Picture Day at School~

Today was Picture Day at Emma's school, I am SO glad that it fell the week BEFORE we leave for China so that she did not have to miss it. The took individual pictures and a class picture, it will be a cute remembrance to have of her classmates. I got the idea to pull out my old curling iron and add a few loose curls to her hair...I am lucky that Emma is so tolerant of me! ;)

We leave to bring Sophie home in 8 days! Yeahhhh!!!!! :-D

Ten More Days!

As you can see by Emma's hands, we will be starting the first leg of our journey to Sophie in just ten short days!

BASIC ITINERARY FOR THE TRIP!

I promise that I will post some pictures in my next post. :)

We have booked our flights and reserved our hotel for our Journey to Sophie! We are leaving Wichita and flying to Chicago on March 5th. We will meet up with my Mom and spend a short 20 hours in Chicago visiting Greg's family-specifically his Grandma who was in a horrible car accident a couple of weeks ago. We really want to see her. We leave the morning of March 6th for Beijing and arrive the evening of March 7th (are you confused yet???) where we will hop on another flight to Guangzhou where we will finally land sometime after 9:00 pm! March 8th will be our day to recuperate and find a WalMart or Carrefour to stock up on our basics. THEN on MARCH 9TH we will meet Sophie!! :-) We will finalize her adoption the next day and we have our Consulate Appointment tentatively set for March 17th. Then we will fly home on March 19th, we are flying from Guangzhou to Tokyo to Chicago...then my Mom will catch her flight to Michigan and we are stuck waiting for our flight home until the NEXT MORNING...ugh, ugh,ugh. With two toddlers in transit for 30 hours I really wish that we could step foot in our own house that night! Oh well.

Greg had to work today, so Emma and I went to WalMart to stock up on some groceries. We REALLY did stock up, too! I bought anything that was not perishable so that when we get back from China we will only have to run out that day to buy fresh fruit and vegetables. I made 18 individual servings of Annie's Organic Macaroni and Cheese with peas & froze them so that I will have something to feed the girls (or at least Emma...) for lunch when I am too zombie like to cook during those early days back. ;) I bought baby food and cereal since we still do not know how much exposure-if any-Sophie has had to solid foods.

We leave in 12 days....TWELVE!!!! :-D