We Meet Charlotte!

This morning Derek and our driver took us to the Civil Affairs Building. We walked up some stairs and into a conference room and there we met our little baby! She was there with a couple of nannies from the orphanage, who drove her four hours from Wenzhou this morning. She is a sweet little girl who was very attached to her nannies but also seems to have taken to us very quickly. She laughs and smiles very easily. She enjoyed taking a walk around Hangzhou and fun eating and playing with noodles when we stopped for lunch.

We filled out a lot of forms with Derek's able assistance. It was quite a scene, with several other families and little Chinese children going through the same process. There is more Chinese government paperwork over the course of this week, including a trip to Wenzhou, culminating in a Chinese passport that allows her to go with us to Guangzhou and start on the US paperwork. Tuesday and Wednesday will be pretty packed taking care of different paperwork tasks and traveling. If we don't post again before Thursday, that's why.