We are now offically Lucy's parents!

Today we officially adopted Lucy from the Chinese government. It took about 3 hours. The first day, Gotcha day lucy cried a lot. When we got her back to the hotel room I started singing lullabyes to her and she stoppped crying and sucked her thumb. She was pretty good after that with intermittent grieving and crying. She slept through the whole night between James and me. The next day, adoption day, just a little bit of crying. And now back at the hotel she has been playing with her toys, no more crying until we gave her a bath which she didn't like and cried, but she recovered quickly and is happily playing with us and her toys. She loves playing with her small soccer ball and she loves her books and is already repeating words after me, amazing. She also speaks Cantonese, I think she's saying "what's that" in Cantonese.

She hasn't taken a nap yet, and is rather active, but she can entertain herself at times. She is very bright.

Lucy is pretty healthy, she has some congestion in her chest which we are closely watching, we brought antibiotics if it gets worse. She also has a deep scratch on her cheek that is a little infected and is disconcerting. She also has some scars on her face from scratches and on her body. I don't think things were all that great at the orphanage. I'm so grateful that we were able to adopt her and not have her grow up there. She's a very sweet and loving baby girl and James and I just love her dearly.

We have a couple day's off then we start working on getting her visa and passport. It's 6:15 pm, China time 1/26. Got to go and get something to eat with Lucy. Zai Jian!