Gotcha For Good

Here she comes! (Glenn our adoptive guide on left, her nanny is holding her and the director is following)

She was more interested in the toys then our chatter

Future bull rider

Sizing us up and weighing her options

Well, if I'm staying, I might as well have my first bite of cheerios

Belly laughing at herself (she is definitely my daughter as I crack myself up too)

Here she is, the moment we've been waiting for a long time. We are now the proud parents AND in position of our beautiful daughter, Liliah YingXia (XiaXia, pronounced shaw, shaw). The day & moment couldn't have gone any smoother!

We started out the day with our new friends Dan & Becky, who are here to adopt there daughter, Bethany. Anyway, we were on our own our first day until our 2:40 PM appointment to meet our daughters. I'm proud of the 4 of us as we hailed a taxi to head to WalMart and only paid 6 yuan (after the front desk said it would cost 10), finding said store after being dropped off in a metropolis of high rise store buildings....we had to do lots of speaking and hand gestures...nothing obscene (at least I hope there wasn't any of that), purchasing bribery snack items and finding a McDonalds - success.

At 2:40 PM, we headed to the lobby to meet Glenn our adoption "go to" guy and headed to our meeting place to pick up our girls. Afterwards, we headed back to our hotel & rooms to do some paperwork and get some bonding time in with our sweeties. Glenn met us for dinner at a nearby restaurant for some really good Cantonese cuisine. I am lovin' the food right now. We haven't seen anything scary yet and have not had any stomach issues - yeah. The girls were so good. Liliah entertained herself with several chopsticks, soup spoons, bowls and card board tissue box....she was crackin herself up. She has only showed us her happy side so far.....I know, she's being merciful to us.....probably thinks.....I better take it easy on these newby parents of mine!!! Bethany (Dan & Becky's daughter just turned 3) was so sweet.....so animated saying, Ooh when they kept bringing platters of food out. She was reserved at first about eating, but then warmed up and thought.....I think I will have some.....keep it comin' folks. We then headed back to our rooms for some much needed rest. We fed Liliah her first bottle which takes longer with her because of her palette...so she chews to nipple and moves it from side to side....but gets the job done. She stayed up until about 10:30 and her bedtime says 9PM. I don't think she wanted to miss a thing, but she was really content and not fussy. Daddy laid down with her and put her to sleep while I worked on the blog. She slept with me and that was sweet, but I didn't sleep too much because she was moving around & snuggling up to me.....I know.....it's tough! We will see if I make it through the day without naptime. More later....I got up @ 4AM to make sure all of you get to see her face & hear about our day. Thanks so much for following us on our trip. We love hearing from you.

Stay tuned for more Liliah sightings. I need to start getting ready for the day before my little pumpkin wakes up....she slept through the night.