China Day 5 - June 4th *Gotcha Day*

Well I was able to sleep very little my first night in what I am going to refer to as the crack hotel.  I woke up at 12:30am and thought I had slept the night - NOT.  I was able to go back to sleep multiple times until finally around 3:30am I sat up and started typing this post. 

Oh another update on the hotel - the safe doesn't work and from what we can tell neither does the air conditioning.

So we packed up some stuff for Mhyia and headed to the lobby for 8:30am where we met our guide.  He was taking us to get the babies!  We drove for about 30 min when we started wondering if they new exactly where they were going?  We were meeting the babies at an office off site from the regular government building - in what appeared to be and apartment building.  We finally got there and went inside where we were greeted by a government official.  I am not going to lie until we went in that office and I saw the typical flags hanging etc... I thought is was all a bit sketchy.  We were there less than 5 min and all of a sudden they walked in with the babies!!  I literally turned around and there she was, I knew instantly it was her!  The lady from the orphanage handed her to me which of course was amazing!!  It just all happened so fast.

Daddy and his girl <3

The next couple of hours were a whirlwind of paper work, signing paperwork etc... She never cried when they handed her to us and in fact we easily made her smile, laugh etc... She also THANKFULLY will go to either Mike or I.  The no crying is both a blessing and not?  It is great for us but it makes you feel she probably had no real attachment to the nannies.  We had to leave the offices dead to get her passport photo done. We made it there just in time.  She got her passport photo and then we headed off to Carrefour (which is like a Walmart store but better) we went in to get formula, food extra wipes etc...  Mike was able to rock her a little earlier and then again in the van and she went to sleep both times.  When we got back to the hotel we placed her in her crib (already asleep) and she slept for about 2 hrs.  

When she got up she ate a bottle, then played a bit and then we headed out for a walk.  She ended up falling asleep in the stroller and missed a feeding.  When she woke up she looked so sad, no smiles, no laughs etc.. we thought "oh no, our lucky streak is over" I took her to the room and she started crying! I gave her a bottle and she was happy girl again!!  

Mommy and her princess <3

Happy girl :)

We put her down a bit late around 9:30pm and she was soooo tired. We actually got to the point where we had to let her cry it out a little - with us at her side. It took her about 45 seconds and she was out!

She woke up a couple times through the night and cried out for maybe a couple of seconds and then went back to sleep.

It was quite a day amazing and overwhelming all at the same time.