Our Adoption Journal: The journey to our daughter (and now sons!)in China

[...] China. And here is a photo of our travel group: adoption, China adoption, Chinese adoption, adoption journal [...]

[...] . Click on the photos to make them bigger. :) adoption, China adoption, Chinese adoption, adoption journal [...]

[...] no doubt he will be whatever he wants to be. :) adoption, China adoption, Chinese adoption, adoption journal [...]

[...] how many there are, he will become more secure. adoption, China adoption, Chinese adoption, adoption journal [...]

[...] what we all need. Will keep you posted. Pictures from Daming Lake: adoption, China adoption, Chinese adoption, adoption journal [...]

[...] Farmland on the way to Qingdao and the playroom at the orphanage: adoption, China adoption, Chinese adoption, adoption journal [...]

[...] Qingdao: adoption, China adoption, Chinese adoption, adoption journal [...]

[...] On the train to Qingdao (Wednesday): adoption, China adoption, Chinese adoption, adoption journal [...]

[...] Finally- Photos from Day 2 (Tuesday): adoption, China adoption, Chinese adoption, adoption journal [...]

[...] are home and things are more structured and more predictable, it will get better. adoption, China adoption, Chinese adoption, adoption journal [...]

[...] More KFC and hanging out in the hotel room playing with the DS: adoption, China adoption, Chinese adoption, adoption journal [...]

[...] as earrings. Reminds me of you and the napkin rings at my parents' house. LOL! :) adoption, China adoption, Chinese adoption, adoption journal [...]

[...] guide (Grace) and hopped aboard our van to ride to the Civil Affairs building to meet our son, Hu Jie for the first time. It was about a 25 minute ride and we were all so excited, except for poor [...]

[...] - and NO ONE CRIED during the PPD (TB Test)!!!! They were just happy to get their candies. :) Hu Jie became upset about two minutes after the fact when he saw he was bleeding a little bit, but [...]

[...] was without shoes, so we got him a new pair.  We also picked up plenty of drinks to keep in our hotel room.  Then we went to the boys section and tried to figure out Tong's size, so we could get him [...]

[...] afternoon, playing and snuggling with us and with his sibs and watching Ultraman back in our hotel room. I am also posting a pic of the boys at the computer with their Daddy. They have both taken to [...]

[...] stroller and his Baba holding him. It was really sweet. As I said, we mostly hung around the hotel room, venturing out for a little while to check out the pool and fitness room. Tong had fun in the [...]

[...] / appointment on our behalf...so we were not required to go. However, we needed to stay in the hotel room from 10-1:00, just in case the consulate had any questions and needed to call. We took that [...]

[...] are so happy to be traveling to bring home our 7-year-old son, William "Will" Zheng Tong! Now- about our trip...We are ALL going! I have a feeling that Dylan and I will be making [...]

[...] to get us to our hotel and to our room. Tomorrow, we get to meet the older of our two new sons, Zheng Tong, and (not surprisingly), we are unable to sleep right now from the anticipation. Stay tuned! [...]

[...] . I (Kate) couldn't sleep the whole night before, as I knew that we would soon be meeting Zheng Tong.  We ate breakfast at the hotel restaurant (which is wonderful, by the way), with its [...]

[...] to know about Tong: He loves food. And he loves to share food. He loves sweet things- candy, ice cream, etc. He loves the bathtub. He loves to brush his teeth. He is incredibly smart and tries to [...]

[...] standing by herself (but making sure that Mommy stayed nearby). There was a cooler filled with ice cream novelties, and Abby kept running over to it and staring at the big picture of an ice cream cone [...]

[...] totally catch up to her peers within a very short period of time. Sounds good. :) The speech therapist and teacher that came on Wednesday were also really nice. The teacher was a native Chinese ( [...]

[...] Abby, she is making incredible gains each day. Yesterday,Abby was evaluated by both a speech therapist and an EI teacher (to get an overall developmental assessment). This afternoon, the [...]

[...] , and Abby will do it...only head first at top speed and with no hands! Aaaggghhh!) The speech therapist has been teaching her (and us) some baby sign language to help ease her transition into the [...]

[...] Pictures from day one, including our first glimpse of Tong Tong in the lobby of our hotel. Click on the photos to make them bigger. :) adoption, China adoption, [...]

[...] , we had a free day, which we mostly spent in our room. This seemed to do a world of good for Tong Tong, who has been feeling a bit insecure. He is very attached to Mike, and likes to be mostly [...]