At 9:20 yesterday morning, we officially became parents of Sophia. She's ours. We had to promise we love Chinese people and that we would never mistreat or abandon her (really, who would actually admit to that..."well, maybe it depends!"). She is beautiful and we are in love.
We aren't sure that she likes us as much as we like her, though. She's been a little fussy. In the past 12 hours however, she's eaten better and slept better. She's been sleeping almost 5 hours now. Even though it's technically not night time, we're letting her go, cause she's got to be dealing with the stress of her transition and probably needs sleep pretty badly.
Yesterday we went to a Chinese department store that had a grocery section. That was different. Dave and the kids took in a park with our new friends the Subletts. They have done every step of this with us. That has been an extra special gift-Stacy and Kim adopted a 9 year old girl adn we've taken to them all very well. He is a youth pastor from PA and they've got 3 kids waiting for them at home. Very fun people. The park was massive and beautiful and provided a very necessary time to Marcus and Lauren to run around (mostly Marcus).
Today we have to go to the police station at 3 to sign up for Sophia's passport and then we get Pizza Hut! Very fun. Our children will thoroughly enjoy that. They're pretty done with the Chinese food.
Pray for our little girl to have a little happier day today. I think she's teething and she has a cold, so all of that could be hard as well as the shock of her life. Bless you!
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