Well, we made it out of China and back to Hong Kong yesterday. That's why I couldn't update the blog. China has a block on Facebook and Blogspot. Now for the real news. Eva Mei is amazing. I can't believe she has become part of the family so fast.
March 1 we got her at the civil affairs office in Chengsha, Hunan, China. She was in the orphanage director's arms just looking at me with a big scared look and then I took her and she freaked. I mean with a capital F! She literally screamed and cried and kicked for one hour. All the other families were cooing their little kids and thinking to themselves, 'thank God we didn't get that child.' I just kept telling her it was okay in Chinese, but it didn't work. I handed her over to Jason and finished the paperwork.
She was dressed in three layers with split pants and I was surprised at how big she was. Once we got her back to the hotel, she was drained. We stripped off a couple of layers and realized she was actually very tiny. She started playing with us right away and it was as if she had cried all the tears she had and was ready to start fresh with us.
What a blessing it was in the end. She was daddy's girl for the first three days, but now she goes to both of us with loving arms.
