Today is Gotcha Day!

Wow. There are not enough adjectives to describe today. The most current one, exhausting. Gotcha Day is a day that we all have anticipated for so long; yet, we never know exactly what it's going to look like when we meet our child for the first time. Because of how long a day today was, I'm going to post more details later as tomorrow is a lightly scheduled day with just a little bit of paperwork, but we just wanted to give you a brief snapshot from today.

Let's just say that in brief that due to some transportation complications created by the mad rush of Chinese New Year travel, our little one along with 3 others from her orphanage couldn't get train tickets and had to come by vehicle leaving at 5am this AM and were the last ones to show up for Gotcha Day. What was supposed to be roughly an hour or less wait quickly became a 2 1/2 hour wait. Talk about stir crazy!  Every time a van or vehicle would show up, families would eagerly anticipate that it might be their little one.  After nearly everyone's children had been handed to them, there were the final four of us left to pace the floors and try to chat with others to pass the time. (it's pretty much the same feeling as someone waiting on the birth of a child and pacing the floor of the hospital)

Oh.

My.

Word.

Ya'll.

Seriously- no words.

It was a crazy day, but one we'll never forget. Until we have time later to post more, you'll have to go to Facebook for photos to help you get a small glimpse into today as uploaded photos from China has proven to be super slow and not always successful and quick as we'd like. (We'll come back later & add photos to this post)

"B"-- you have done so well today and we can't express how great it is to hold your tiny little body in our hands. We know you aren't feeling so well right now and your little heart is probably so overwhelmed by everything today, but we are so thankful to have you sleeping in your little crib next to us tonight. Rest well, little one!