Tuesday,
November 24, 2009
ADOPTION DAY
Today Zoe is officially our daughter in the eyes of the
Chinese government! We had a very good night last night. Zoe woke up once and we gave her a bottle and she slept
until 6:00.
She was a little sad when she first woke up, but had more
smiles for us today than yesterday. We met our guide in
the lobby of the hotel at 9:00 am and rode back to the
adoption office.
Zoe was very sad on the way there and I don't think she
understood what was going on, I'm sure she was very
confused to see the same room again that we met in
yesterday. She stayed close to us the whole time.
We went into to two different offices where we were asked
a few questions about the adoption and then it was
finalized, she is officially ours. After we were done we
decided to go to the grocery store to get some supplies.
The grocery store was their version of our Walmart. I
posted a picture of the meat section of the store where
they had all kinds of live fish, snakes, turtles, squid
and a carcass of a sheep hanging. Definitely nothing you
would see in our Walmart. They use the snakes and turtles
for soup. After Walmart we got a quick bite to eat at a
KFC and then headed back to the Hotel to let her take a
nap. At 3:00 we met our guide again and had a fifteen
minute walk to the medical center. At the medical center
she got a physical exam and they toke her weight and
height. She is 27lbs, almost as big as her big brother
Chase. She also had to have 5 shots and a TB test done and
cried her little head off. Steve went in with her when she
had the shots and she glared at him the whole way back to
the hotel. Now she's playing on the bed with Daddy, so I
think she's already forgiven him.
Tomorrow we have pretty much a free day until the
afternoon and we will go to apply for her Visa. We love
you boys and will see you in ten more days!
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Adoption Day - Zoe is ours!
At the Guangzhou Adoption Center
Fish for sale at the grocery store |
