Michele and I are sorry for the delay, but the Internet has been down most of yesterday and early this morning. The Monsoon season has definitely started here and its not helping the communications.
We have our girl! I don't have a clue how to explain how it feels. its 3am now, we'll post more later this morning.
Well, one hour until we leave to meet the babies! We have a twenty minute drive to the office where the meeting will take place. I bet our babies are either very close to being there or maybe they are already there!
It is pouring rain here in Nanning.
We were told to bring a toy, our passports, and a bottle of water. I had to ask, "You mean the kind of bottle that a baby uses or the kind of water bottle that we use?" The answer: baby bottle. Duh!
Ray is charging up the camera and our video camera. I hope we can keep it together enough to capture everything.
Thank you so much for all of the sweet words you have left, especially in the post before this one. It means a lot and it is very hard to read them without crying.
Okay, the next time you hear from us....we'll be a family of three!
I'm up early, 4:00 am. We have to be downstairs for breakfast in 1.5 hours. I woke up thinking, "Today is the day, today is the day, today I know Zoe." I forgot to mention earlier that we'll be flying to Nanning today, and that is where we'll meet Zoe. It is in Guangxi Province. Zoe is from Beihai, which is in the southern part of China. Her city is very close to Vietnam. Zoe will be traveling from Beihai to Nanning. She has a 2.5 hour drive to do today.
In honor of Zoe, my brother, Zoe's Uncle Mike, created a new version of the image on this blog. He is the one that created this blog. All he had to go on was the title of this song, and me saying something like, "I want flowers in the sky and Zoe with her back turned looking up at the sky." And from that, he created what you see on here.
Here's the new version:
Larger, clearer version here: (original wouldn't fit on this screen)
So, because today is THE DAY, it seems fitting that this song should be played. I plan on printing out this entire site and saving it for her to read, so if you want to leave her a message today, feel free!
As usual we woke up around 3am this morning. Its 4:30 now and in less than an hour we will meet everyone downstairs to load up for the ride to Beijing airport. The flight is a couple of hours long, then we return to our hotel, check-in, "hopefully" get matched with our luggage, exchange some money for admin fees that we will need tomorrow and then...we pick up Zoe. It all sounds so routine except for that last part.
I knew on one level, well before today, that i don't really know how to take care of a baby. You can babysit neighbors kids every week and still have no clue...I know this first hand. In most cases, I like to know the details in advance. I like to plan and create a road-map..for the love of god, i need a "dry-run" to make sure i can do this.
I have no plan or map on how things are going to change in a few hours. But its OK. Instead of being freaked out, I'm excited. Instead of thinking about all the things that can go wrong (I'm excellent at this!), I'm thinking about tickling her without mercy. I know enough to know, that i don't know. But it's OK.
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