Forever Family Day!

 

Forever Family Day!

We arrived first at the civil affairs building. We started on some paperwork and in she came. Her nanny set her on the floor and I Knelt down in front of her and talked to her. No tears so I reached in and scooped her up. Still no tears. She let me hold her and soon she wanted down, I put her down and she walked straight over to her daddy and wanted him to hold her. Her nanny handed us the pictures we had sent her of our family. Ruiby got a big smile on her face and pointed to each of us saying mama, baba, big brother and big sister. All I can say is this little girl’s foster mom had prepared her very well for her new family. She new who we were and was not afraid of us at all. Jon had her smiling and laughing before we left the building. We had a lot of paperwork to do that took us all over the city and she didn’t cry until the very last place, the police station were we applied for her passport. She was so tired and cried and cried. Just as I finally got her to sleep they said we need a picture of the baby you must wake her. She was then a very upset little girl. We arrived back at our hotel where we pulled off three layers of clothing off this very hot sticky baby. She played with her baby doll we brought and has already started saying baby and ball in English. She does have a stubborn streak in her and wants things her way. I gave her a bath and at first she didn’t like it but soon she was splashing and having a grand time. We put her jammies on and fed her and she played some more talking and smiling the whole time. Around 8 as I couldn’t hardly keep my eyes open. I decide it was time for bed. I took her toys away and she started to cry. I laid her down beside me and she cried and I sang Jesus Loves Me! she soon laid there and listened to me sing and within 5 minutes she was asleep. She woke us at 2:30 am ready to play asking for her baby. We gave it to her and she lay there and played for an hour and finally went to sleep with her foot propped up on Jon’s back. What an amazing gift God has given our family!!!!! We are so blessed by this amazing little girl in our lives! We are so in love with this tiny little treasure!! We will be spending most of the day today in our room, but will be going to a park later. It is so cold here it is hard to spend much time outside. She is awake already this morning and is laughing and talking and smiling!! AMAZING!! Thank you for all the prayers we can feel them!!