Lanzhou / Gotcha Day!!!!!!!!

Do I look a little tired here.

Emma and her new Mama and Baba (Chinese for Dad)

Emma not exactly happy right now.

Emma and Mama back in our Hotel Room.

OK.........It looks like we are able to post from Lanzhou?!?!?!?!??! We made it here to Lanzhou and on the way to the hotel from the airport our new guide Wendy Wang, said you know your daughters will be here this afternoon right? I think you could have seen 5 jaws drop on the Craig & Cynthia, and Evelyn (Jenn's Mom) and our faces. Somebody said, I thought it was supposed to be tommorrow. Wendy said.........oh no, the orphanage director and nanies are on their down right now, it takes 4 hours to drive here. I know we were all stunned!!!!!!

Well, when we arrived in Lanzhou we had about an hour before the girls were supposed to show up. We scrambled to our rooms and started to get ready. Luckliy, Wendy called our room and said they were late. so we had some extra time to sit and worry. We ended up going down stairs in the lobby to look around and change some money. We were looking for a WiFi connection on the third floor area when either Jenn or Evelyn saw some people with to toddlers walk in. I didn't see them and we couldn't see them by the time they walked closer into the Lobby. We debated about whether or not that was them because they were ahead of schedule then what Wnedy said they would arrive. I said we should go back to the room and call Wendy to say we were back in our room and would wait for her call. She said give her five minutes and she would call back to come down to her room. ?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!??! Why? Wendy said they had just walked in!!!!!!!


Well long story short we went down to the room first where everybody was at and found Emma and Joy. Emma was walking around near the beds and Joy was standing holding onto the sides. She was not sure of us of coarse and really didn't want to come to us. The nannies, guide and O director coaxed her towards us and she finally went to Eric. One of the male Orphange workers told our rep that she likes males better than females. Poor Jenn Ithought, ok we will work it out. I picked up Can Xiao (Emma) and felt her bottom was all soft and felt like skin. I looked down and sure enough she was wearing her split pants. (They don't wear underwear or diapers in China to speed up the potty training process). The Dorroh's showed and picked up their daughter and got aquainted. We were able to ask questions of the orphange workers through our interpreter, about the girls and their schedules, habits, etc.


Skip forward to Monday night 9:30 PM ( 7:30 AM in Idaho) Emma is sleepinmg through the night eating and making dirty diapers like normal. She is not at all happy about her new Family but started to show signs of warming up to us tonight. Unfortunately, for the first day and a half she would only let hold her. She will let Jenn feed her and play with her more and more put throws a major fit if Jenn picks her up.

Our info about Emma said she loves baths, we really don't believe that right now. She cries and would not even sit down tonight. So she got wore out through the day and fell asleep while finishing off her bottle before bed.


We cleaned up the room and got ready for tommorrow as we are going to a park to let the girls enjoy some outdoor time. The sun finally was showing itself tonight before it went down so tommorrow should be a nice day for us.


For those of you interested the red dot on Emma's forehead was put their by the foster parents or nanny (not sure which) for good luck.