Day 6 - The Big Day

Today was the big day. We met at 9:40am to go to the Civil Affairs office. I had heard that usually there is a room where the families wait and another room where the babies are waiting. But thats not the way ours worked. First, there were only 2 families and when we got there, Katelin was already sitting there in the room waiting. We took some pictures and did some staring while we waited for the corect time for us to get her. The whole event went really well. We had mailed a camera over to get some pictures of Katelin at the orphanage but the director said that they had gotten the camera but had not taken any pictures. But, she said that they had created an album of her as she had grown up and would send that to our Hotel (maybe today?). The director also gave us lots of information about Katelin's background (feeding, where she was living,...). We returned to the hotel to do some paperwork for our afternoon meeting at the Civil Afairs Office. Then we got some homework (make copies, get money exchanged from US for Chinese Yuan). We just had a little bit of time to cram in lunch and then back to the office. After meeting with a few government(?) people, it was official, we had adopted a daughter.

Katelin did not cry at all today and considering all the things that she did (2 hour ride into the city, meeting new people and being in a strange place), she did great. She is very outgoing, watches and smiles at everyone. She doesn't say much or make much noise, mostly just curious and happy. I keep telling Halli this is too easy. Then to top it off, she sleep from 9:30pm to 7:00am. We woke up before she did. ...Needless to say, so far, so good!