Showing posts with label QiuQiu. Show all posts
Showing posts with label QiuQiu. Show all posts

7/10/08

What a day!!


What a wonderful orphanage group we have! This is the second family that has been so generous as to take a photo of our QiuQiu for us during their orphanage visit!! The father of QiuQiu's crib neighbor, Katie, took this amazing picture! I'm just bursting with pride, and so thrilled that he held her hand and she seems to be smiling up at him!! Many, many thanks to the Pearsons for this wonderful gift!

Travel Itinerary!!!!

We received our itinerary today!!
Very exciting.
Here it is, in brief:

7/22 - leave US for Beijing
7/23 - arrive Beijing, check in to Holiday Inn Downtown. Free time.
7/24 - Beijing tours
7/25 - 7/26 - free time in Beijing
7/27 - leave Beijing for Nanjing, check into Mandarin Garden Hotel
7/28 - MEET OUR DAUGHTER at the registration office, 2:00 pm!!!!!
7/29 - adoption registration and notarization. Our adoption is finalized!!
7/30 - 7/31 - tour Nanjing with our daughter!
8/01 - receive our daughter's passport, leave Nanjing for Guangzhou,
check in to White Swan Hotel
8/02 - QiuQiu's physical exam and visa photo
8/03 - free day in Guangzhou - rest, shop, tour
8/04 - consulate appointment,
8/05 - take oath and receive Visa packet for QiuQiu
8/06 - begin our trip back to the US

7/6/08

Because it's hard to think about anything else...


...I had to share the last few gratuitous pictures of our Flynn QiuQiu! We have received so many that I have not posted the entire lot with each update. So here are the last of the ones that I have yet to put up. I do try to remember how lucky we are to get so many pictures of her during the wait. I know that this is a rare and wonderful thing. She will be very glad of these in later years, as she grows up. It's also a wonderful thing that she looks so happy in so many of these pictures.

Just look at that smile!...

...I can't get enough of it!
I love how open and relaxed she looks - not self-protective or guarded. No one should have to be in an orphanage in these early months of their life. But it looks to me that she has had it better than many, and for that I am infinitely grateful.

A night picture. She looks sleepy in this one. I can't wait to put some weight on that little body!...count those toes, watch her clutch our fingers, kiss her on the nose and on the top of that little head. This little girl has so, so much love waiting for her.