This video is to bring awareness to the little unknown fact that there are actually MORE boys who are currently available for adoption in China, than girls. If you want more information on how you can bring one home, just let me know.
Click play...Because every little boy needs a mommy!
So tell me-am I the only mom who lets their kids go out and play in the rain?!?!
So much fun... and even free ;)
Shelby made this little Easter hat at school and Elise had completely fallen in love with it. So stinkin cute!!
We went over to my dad's house tonight to celebrate his 72nd birthday. Since he isn't a big fan of cake, we just surprised him with ice cream instead. Pawpaw is always happy to share the fun with his grandkids :)
Too many thoughts to logically put them together, so just going to go for the easy bullet post this round. I will hopefully explain some of the pics too :)
We spent our last night in China with our new friends at the Banana Leaf for one last Chinese meal. It was alot of fun!
Then we ended the night with foot massages for everyone-even Shelby.
It was a very long long commute home, but we all survived.
I would highly recommend anyone to fly with Korean Air-they rocked. We even scored bulkhead seating on our long flight home again!
I would also highly recommend that anyone coming home from China take the midnight flight home. Amazingly our jet lag is next to none.
We had a very nice homecoming crowd at the airport. Kim and Michael thought of everything including our Diet Coke and Mt.Dew :) It was SO nice to see the folks who supported us through our journey welcoming us home!
The boys are totally in love with their new sister. I feel complete again to have all my kiddos under my roof, together forever.
We are getting back to normal at home. We even made it to church yesterday. Again our jetlag is very minimal right now-YEAH for us :)
But just wanted to let you all know we are home safe and sound. Hopefully I will get a chance to post some pics soon :)
We will have to go through customs though once we land, so I don't think we will actually be out of the airport until at the earliest around noon. We will be coming in via Korean Air on flight 35. I don't want anyone to get stuck waiting for us if we get delayed anywhere, so if you are planning on meeting us at the airport (which we would love to see you), then please call Kim at 770-309-5114 as we will report any delays to her since she is picking us up at the airport.
I was able to venture out again with Ann today. This time I went with Heidi, while CJ was a kind kind man and he stayed with not only our girls but also he kept Heidi's girls as while. Have I told you lately how much I love my man?!?! 
We went early this morning for the official Consulate Appointment at the US Consulate here in Guangzhou. This is what our whole adoption trip is scheduled around. It is pretty anti-climatic considering this is the final official signing of all the adoption paperwork, but hey we are done! We pick up Elise's US Visa tomorrow afternoon then we will be off to the train station headed to Hong Kong.
CJ learned a very valuable lesson yesterday here in China. (Don't tell him I am sharing with you all, but it was too funny not too!!) Anyhow, you see in China the majority of the bathrooms do NOT have toilet paper at all. So you should always, I repeat always have some tissue on hand for those "occasions" when toilet paper is a necessity. My resourceful man came up with a solution though at the end of the "occasion" when his survival skills kicked in. It was a bit expensive, but you will do what you have to do, when you have to do it here in China no matter what the cost. Turns out that a few RMB dollars can double as tissue when in a pinch ;) Good thing he had just cashed in a $100 bill for some smaller bills before he went into the bathroom!!
Sorry but not a lot of time to blog tonight. Going to bed early since we will be waking at 6am for our early Consulate Appointment. So here is our day thru pics!
Who knew what all you could find in a Chinese restaurant??!!? What a terrific dinner we experienced with the group tonight at the Banana Leaf Restaurant here in Guangzhou!
We had a great time today at the park. It is a holiday here today so there were lots of families out and about. All the kids had a great time. Each ride costs only about $1 per child per ride. I was really missing the boys today though :( They would have had a great time fishing in the baby pools with the girls. Elise is already a good fisherman!
I was able to go out today with Ann for a great shopping trip. K and B went with me as well. We had a lot of fun getting out and about amongst the people today. We also had another real Chinese lunch with Ann while we were out. Even though we were out for 6 hours, we still ran out of time to find some of things I wanted to buy. I may talk CJ into going out next time, but not sure about that. Ann scares him ;)
We went over to the island last night for a group dinner at Lucy's. It was nice to have a quiet evening and a place to let the kids run around and burn off some energy. The ride over in our taxi was horrendous though in 5pm traffic. The driver kept stopping and going, stopping and going over and over and over again. All of the girls including myself were all on the verge of leaving the taxi driver an extra "tip" in the back seat if you know what I mean. I don't think I have ever experienced car sickness...until last night-UGH. Anyhow, the dinner went well and the ride back was just fine. We learned our lesson about when and when not to get a taxi to the island for sure.
Here are the links to the other 2 families currently with our group. 2 more should join us tomorrow. Rachel and Jim, who have 2 bio girls at home about our boys age and they are here adopting their new 3 year old daughter. And then Heidi is here as well. She is here with her bio 8 year old, adopting her new 8 year old daughter. Heidi also adopted her 4 year old son three years ago from China. He is at home with dad this trip though. Not sure who will join us tomorrow, but will update accordingly when I find out :)
We had a very LONG day yesterday, but in the end we made it to Guangzhou to our little run down piece of hotel. LOL- just kidding, this new hotel is swank! I have included some pictures of our new room. We are not staying on the island this trip since we are with a group for this last week. So far we have 3 families with us, but tomorrow there will be 5 families in our travel group here with BAAS. This is the first time for us to travel on a bus in a group, but so far so good.
