Day 4.

After yesterday of grief and tears and pain, I didn't want today to start. Josie slept over ten hrs, praise God, but between G and I think we heard every wiggle and breath. 

We woke up with screaming and tried so hard to get her to drink or eat. The breakfast people would not let me bring anything to the room so down we went. She ended up eating some banana, yogurt, and she loved apple juice. 

We got up 2 1/2 hrs early but we still barely made it to the lobby by 8. We headed directly to the Civil affairs office. We both got real nervous when we walked in and it looked like court house. In my mind, I was afraid if Josie started to cry uncontrollably, they could decide we weren't fit to be parents. We were told just the orphanage director would be there, but the one nanny showed up. G and I wanted to spit nails, because J immediately tried to throw herself out of my arms and became like a stiff board trying to go to her. Lucky for us, she stayed away mostly and I was able to hide behind the gift that we needed to bring and keep J facing away from her. G even got giggles out of her. We stamped our fingerprints on the documents and had a short interview that we promise to love her unconditionally. And more paperwork and it was official!!! 

We are Josie's parents!!  Woohoo! 

The to the police station.. For what, I don't know, but we follow directions well. :). They checked our passports, took our pictures, and Melody gave them so papers. 

We got done by 11:00 and Melody dropped us off at the hotel. We played with Josie for awhile and decided to venture out to the baby store and super market. We wanted apple juice and more tissues for we are going through a million a minute. She just stared at everyone walking by. And everyone else stared back at us walking by .. White people with Asian baby. Lol. 

We had a hard time getting J to eat. We finally got her to eat noodles and apple juice. 

We tried twice for naps because she was so tired, but just hollering. So we just dragged it out till bedtime. That would be at 6 ;). Yes we put her down early. We don't have anything planned for tomorrow so I figured it didn't matter if she wakes up early. 

G was amazing. Josie prefers him especially while playing. She will go to either of us to hold her though. :)

She is making us proud with her hand and eye coordination. A smoke stack came out of a tiny play tractor and she was able to put it back in. 

She loves her toys. At first it was her teddy bear and fire truck and now she has added tricky dogs to that. 

She saw me drawing water in my washing my clothes in the little baby tub and she came over and tried to take her clothes off. I stopped her and showed her what I was doing. After washing them, I drew more water and asked her if she wanted to take a bath. That was a serious hit. She loved and was using the washcloth to wash with and was even trying to wash her hair. She is little miss independent. After getting her dressed again, we were out in the room and she saw her dirty clothes were laying there. She balled them all up and even got her socks and marched in the bathroom and threw the clothes in the little tub and said wash (in her language (translate app). 

She is was very attached to her clothes and shoes. She has allowed me to change her clothes now, but refuses to take off her shoes. She needs them to sleep apparently. I snuck them off last night while walking her and then at 3am this morning she woke up crying and somehow managed to see her shoes in the dark and it was a must to put them on!  

We were sitting and eating and I had a piece of trash and she headed to the trash can and was struggling to pick it up and carry it to me. So instead she got the trash and put it in for me. 

Her first English word to know was blow. Lol. Because we were blowing her nose so often from crying. 

We were at the elevator and she wants to put the buttons. There are four doors and we were standing there waiting and hadn't seen the one behind us open. She   started pointing behind us. Sure enough one was open. 

She is starting to talk more and we wish so much we could know what she is saying. 

We had a yogurt that has a straw in (their's is runny). She couldn't get anymore out of it and I threw it away. She went and got it and started pulling at the top so I opened it. She grabbed it and tipped it up and started drinking it. She knew it wasn't empty. Apparently she had these before. 

We never fully knew how exhausting parenting is, but we are quickly finding out! 

God bless you and please continue to pray for us!!! And pray for the rest of our families here. It is NOT easy and two of the families have older children and both of their husbands were not able to come. I know that I could NOT have done this without Gary.