Loving the Camera

Isn't she photogenic? The camera loves her. We are finally back at the hotel after a long day. Normally the adoption isn't final until the next day when the registration paperwork is done, but for families adopting from Chongqing the registration is done the same day so we are officially her parents as far as China is concerned. We have her adoption certificate to prove it! She is so tiny. She is not the baby in the video I have posted before as she was in foster care. She really doesn't look like her referral photo and I could not pick her out of the babies in the room.

We were told we would be called one by one to get the babies. We got off the elevator in the Civil Affairs office and turned the corner and there they all were! It was chaos as everyone tried to find their baby. The orphanage director and the nannies came up to each one of us and asked the baby's name and pointed them out where they were in the room. She has a pretty bad runny nose and a croupy cough. Lots of spots all over her that look like bites but other than that she is ok