An uneventful eventful day

The pictures you are looking at are some more photos of Beijing. Today we flew China Air from Beijing to Nanjing. Waiting at the airport for the hour and a half flight, we met two of the other families who will be adopting their daughters using our adoption agency. One family is from Merrick and the other from Wantaugh (Long Island). When we arrived in Nanjing, two representatives from our agency met us, loaded us (and all our luggage) on to a hotel shuttle bus and began to tell us about the upcoming events. Tomorrow morning at 9:30 am, we'll all meet in the hotel lobby and we'll take a van to the Civil Affairs Bureau of Jiangsu Province. There, we'll be given our babies. The babies will have left the orphanage early in the morning (the orphanage where they're residing is about a 5 hour drive from here) and are being driven to this provincial government office. Then, after we take our babies from the only caregivers they've ever known, we go back to the hotel. That's it. We'll have our daughter. I think she'll be scared to death and screaming. I know I would be if I were her.

We'll be at that office not only with the other families we met, but also with many other families using many other adoption agencies from across the country. Pretty weird. Go to the Provincial Office and get your baby. I thought it might not sound so weird if I said it again. But it does. On Tuesday morning, after filling out the adoption paperwork, we'll go back to the Civil Affairs Bureau with the baby and officially adopt her. By Tuesday afternoon, she'll be ours legally. I'm hoping by then she will have stopped crying.

So nothing much happened today, except that we flew to Nanjing and learned how our baby would become ours....now in less than 24 hours. No big deal.

Oh, and there's a crib in our hotel room now. We unpacked all our baby junk. We have to bring food for her tomorrow 'cause she will have gotten up very early and will be hungry by the time we see her. I practiced diapering tonite. Evan helped me. He said you have to do it fast. We think our baby is going to be squirmy. It's his job to mix the formula and he decided which kind of bottle to bring.

You may have notice that I posted a picture of some of our baby stuff. Mia is coming to us with the clothes on her back, so we had to bring all the rest of baby junk from home.

Yikes. More soon