Hi everyone,
Sorry this is sooo late but it has been nuts the last three days! Here is the recap for Monday and Tuesday and a few pictures.
Monday November 23rd. Charlotte's Gotcha Day!
Wahoo!!!! Ok here's how Monday went.
We had to be downstairs to leave at 9:30am. Most of us are still not on China time and that included me and Robyn. David slept well. We were downstairs for breakfast early and what a great breakfast! Reminded us of the Solstice! Robyn ate her share, that's for sure. We were all ready to go at 930am as we hopped on the bus. It was a short ride to the office we were to hang out and wait for the regions orphanages to bring the kids to us. There were 11 families. And yes, we were the last one!
Charlotte looked soo cute as she was carried in and then.. Wahhhhhh.. wahhhh. Yup, we got the crying one. Might as well have one of each. Robyn shut down.. this one cried and cried and cried. It's really hard to try and sooth someone you've never met before.
We did our picture and paperwork and back on the bus to the hotel. she was still crying.. not quite as loud, but still crying. Back in the room we sat her down and pulled out the stacking cups and then Robyn kept brining over every toy.. poor kid was a bit overwhelmed. She stopped crying and started to play and interact. We pulled a few layers of her and changed her wet diaper. And in a bit we got some baby babble and she was banging cups.. and playing. She did not like David, at all. Wanted no part of him. We stayed in the room and hung out.
Later, David went out to get some dinner at a noodle place around the corner. I was down the hall hanging with a few other families.. the hotel put us all on one floor.. and no one else! pretty nifty. anyway.. Robyn walked back to the room. I had forgotten to give her the room key to turn the power on in the room. after a few minutes.. something kept nagging on my Conscience.. So I got up and started to head back just as Robyn was walking towards me. And she was upset. Poor kid was in the dark. Sometimes I wonder why she doesn't tell me when something is wrong. So as I was consoling her, Charlotte decides this is the time she is going to open up and interact! Hey.. what's up with Robyn? can I help.. oh.. yea and I can stand and sort of walk.. NOW! I don't know how single parents to it. Anyway.. I was able to turn the situation funny, and that helped Robyn feel better.
David showed up with the food. yummo. Some great noodle soup. Robyn and I loved the Shallot pancakes!!
We got to Skype with Grandma and Grandpa and with Nancy and Steve! Thank you Moellers for posting a picture of the girls onto Facebook.
The girls had fun in the tub together and Charlotte went down to sleep fairly easily.. much easier than Robyn.
Now for Tuesday.
First thing.. it snowed last night ..like 6 inches! Which is a record. Zhengzhou generally gets an inch or two.. they have NO snow removing equipment.. just people with shovels and brooms!
We all piled into the bus to head to the Adoption office. Where we received our red binder with our official adoption decree!! Yahoo! and ok that sounds easy, but in reality it was NUTS! With crazy snow piles and slush.. holy crap. The bus almost got stuck at the office! Somehow we made it safely there and back. After that David and Robyn ran to Subway to get sandwhiches to go. We were going to take the subway to the bullet train to Luoyang to get Charlotte's passport paperwork in motion. We got to the subway and that was it. The bullet train was sold out.. so we went back to the hotel and hung out. The girls napped some and we skypped some and got ready for the next day! They rescheduled our trip to Luoyang for the next morning. Had to be downstairs by 740am.
~Donna
Wahoo!!!! Ok here's how Monday went.
We had to be downstairs to leave at 9:30am. Most of us are still not on China time and that included me and Robyn. David slept well. We were downstairs for breakfast early and what a great breakfast! Reminded us of the Solstice! Robyn ate her share, that's for sure. We were all ready to go at 930am as we hopped on the bus. It was a short ride to the office we were to hang out and wait for the regions orphanages to bring the kids to us. There were 11 families. And yes, we were the last one!
Charlotte looked soo cute as she was carried in and then.. Wahhhhhh.. wahhhh. Yup, we got the crying one. Might as well have one of each. Robyn shut down.. this one cried and cried and cried. It's really hard to try and sooth someone you've never met before.
We did our picture and paperwork and back on the bus to the hotel. she was still crying.. not quite as loud, but still crying. Back in the room we sat her down and pulled out the stacking cups and then Robyn kept brining over every toy.. poor kid was a bit overwhelmed. She stopped crying and started to play and interact. We pulled a few layers of her and changed her wet diaper. And in a bit we got some baby babble and she was banging cups.. and playing. She did not like David, at all. Wanted no part of him. We stayed in the room and hung out.
Later, David went out to get some dinner at a noodle place around the corner. I was down the hall hanging with a few other families.. the hotel put us all on one floor.. and no one else! pretty nifty. anyway.. Robyn walked back to the room. I had forgotten to give her the room key to turn the power on in the room. after a few minutes.. something kept nagging on my Conscience.. So I got up and started to head back just as Robyn was walking towards me. And she was upset. Poor kid was in the dark. Sometimes I wonder why she doesn't tell me when something is wrong. So as I was consoling her, Charlotte decides this is the time she is going to open up and interact! Hey.. what's up with Robyn? can I help.. oh.. yea and I can stand and sort of walk.. NOW! I don't know how single parents to it. Anyway.. I was able to turn the situation funny, and that helped Robyn feel better.
David showed up with the food. yummo. Some great noodle soup. Robyn and I loved the Shallot pancakes!!
We got to Skype with Grandma and Grandpa and with Nancy and Steve! Thank you Moellers for posting a picture of the girls onto Facebook.
The girls had fun in the tub together and Charlotte went down to sleep fairly easily.. much easier than Robyn.
Now for Tuesday.
First thing.. it snowed last night ..like 6 inches! Which is a record. Zhengzhou generally gets an inch or two.. they have NO snow removing equipment.. just people with shovels and brooms!
We all piled into the bus to head to the Adoption office. Where we received our red binder with our official adoption decree!! Yahoo! and ok that sounds easy, but in reality it was NUTS! With crazy snow piles and slush.. holy crap. The bus almost got stuck at the office! Somehow we made it safely there and back. After that David and Robyn ran to Subway to get sandwhiches to go. We were going to take the subway to the bullet train to Luoyang to get Charlotte's passport paperwork in motion. We got to the subway and that was it. The bullet train was sold out.. so we went back to the hotel and hung out. The girls napped some and we skypped some and got ready for the next day! They rescheduled our trip to Luoyang for the next morning. Had to be downstairs by 740am.
~Donna
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