It’s hard to believe that almost one year has passed already since we first met our daughter. The experience of getting that referral package and waiting to travel is a bit of a different approach when you are adopting a waiting child but nevertheless you go thru the same highs and lows and waiting and glimpsing for every update every picture you may or may not get until its finally your time to travel and bring your little one home. Crazy thing is that we remember every day up to that point of holding Sarah like it was only yesterday. I just tucked Sarah into bed after bed time story and hugs and kisses I am thinking back to when…………..
Today a year ago we where very impatiently sitting in Beijing waiting to travel to Changsha, Hunan to meet our almost 2 year old daughter Sarah at the time. We just found out that instead of meeting the girls that next day after arriving at the hotel we had to wait to meet them at the civil affairs office in Changsha not until Monday, we had another family travel with us from our agency also brining home a little girl from the same Orphanage. So I recall we decided to walk from our downtown Beijing hotel all the way to the Forbidden City to do some sight seeing, nothing like walking forever and wearing yourself out trying to pass the time taking in the beauty China has to offer, without being to impatient……….lol……..
It was a beautiful day and the City was amazing…..but not as amazing as what was to come two days later on April 16th. 2007.
This is the very first picture we ever saw of Sarah almost 9 months before we where able to hold her in our arms the first time ....
Funny thing is I kept thinking this girl has her daddy's ears ;-) now covered by longer hair but she still at times has that serious frown on her face.
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