We got her!

Right after they came in.

Our guide, Michelle, trying to get Kai Jin to calm down.

Still trying to get her to calm down.

Reese KaiJin quite thoroughly unhappy.

On one of our beds at the hotel with her sucker and cheerios...and cell phone. LOL

We have a precious little girl! She was SOOOO upset. She was screaming and yelling and crying for her foster mama. She cried herself to sleep in our guide's lap. It was so sweet. Mom keeps going 'you did that when you were little'. She is so upset. But she's calming down now. She's got her cell phone, her green apple sucker, and a big ziploc bag of Cheerios...and she is at least content, sort of.

The director of the orphanage said she is very naughty. Oh well, she's still precious.

They were late to get there, and so mom and I were like pacing the office. But all's well that ends well. Our guide says she was worried she would shut down and not let the stress, etc. out and that's not good for kids, but man, she cried her lungs out. Michelle says tomorrow we will have a completely different little girl probably. Also, she NEVER sleeps alone, so she'll be sleeping with one of us tonight. I hope me. She's never had a jie jie before, but she has had Mamas. So who knows?

I hate to say I didn't take a bazillion pictures. We were too busy trying to get her to stop screaming. We found out that this province only does about 1 adoption a month. So we're a real novelty here. :)

Half an hour til we leave...

Soon to be more than just a picture...

Less than 30 minutes until we leave to go to the civil affairs office to meet Reese for the first time...and less than an hour until that fateful moment. I totally can't wait. I slept from about 9:30 pm to 6:30 this morning...I have no clue when Mom went to sleep but she got up at 3:30 am. Neither one of us went down to get breakfast because we're all nerves, so we munched on baby cookies and coke. Michelle laughed when we said we eat baby cookies because they're baby food. Oh well, they taste good. There's something that looks like a 7/11 when you go out of our hotel and to the the left. Green and orange border thing, you know? They have a pretty good selection.

Will post more after we get back to the room with her.