Gotcha Day! (redo...this time with pictures and a video!)

After arriving to Fuzhou on Sunday morning, we were able to get to our hotel, shower, and rest for just a couple of hours before it was time to meet Miss Lottie!  Our guide called to tell us they would be bringing her to our hotel later that afternoon.  Chad and I got as "ready" as we possibly could and rode down the elevator to pick up our child!  Sounds crazy doesn't it?

As we walked in, her orphanage caregivers walked right over to us and said, "this is your baby," and handed her over.  It was pretty chaotic in the room as there was another family meeting their child at the same time and a couple of adoption officials as well.  Our guide was talking with the official and the orphanage directors as we were getting aquainted with Lottie.  She was a little hesitant about letting us hold her until her orphanage director gave us a snack they had brought with them.  As soon as we offered that to her, she sat in our laps and enjoyed her snack while we signed papers and tried to keep up with what was going on in the room.   Here are our first few pictures with her:

      

All together, that process took about 30 minutes and then we were on our way back up to our room with a new Hunsberger!  Our guide helped us to order a pizza and let us know when she would be back the next day. So, we were on our own.  We set Lottie down on the floor with us and pulled out some of the toys we brought for her.  The ball was an early favorite and got us our first laugh!

 

 

 

 She was also very interested in drawing with the pen and paper I had out.

While we were playing on the floor, we began to peel off some of the layers she was wearing so we could get a better look at her size.  The Chinese culture definitely believes in bundling up their little ones as we realized Lottie was wearing three thick layers of clothes!  We also took her braces off to see how well she could move around.  Sweet thing can get wherever she wants to go with her scooting technique and army crawl.  She was having a blast moving around the room and playing with the toys.

When the pizza arrived, she acted very interested in what we were eating.  Our guide told us she probably wouldn't eat any of the pizza and would just want her milk.  Well, Lottie proved her wrong as she ate two pieces of pizza!

After dinner, we decided it was time for a bath and started to peel back the other layers she was wearing.   Lottie is definitely a tiny little girl!  The weight got for her back in January must have included the weight of both of her braces, because I doubt she even weighs 20 pounds.  She sat quietely in the bath and played while we bathed her.

 

Once we got her out and dressed, we could tell she was getting pretty sleepy because she was very still and very quiet.  She played for just a little while longer, then it was time for bed.

We weren't sure what her normal bedtime routine was like so we decided just to give her some of her bottle and it seemed to really relax her.  She was so tired that I literally just lay her down in her bed, covered her up and watched her immediately close her eyes!  We were exhausted so immediately went to bed ourselves.  We all enjoyed a GREAT night of sleep and we ended up having to wake Lottie up the next morning after 12 hours of sleeping so we could get to our Monday appointment.  She never made a peep all night!

 That sums up our first day with Lottie, and we don't think it could have gone any better! Thank you all for praying for us and please, keep it up.

We will do our best to post more soon, but blogging has proved quite challenging so far with quirky internet coverage and computer issues.  We have some great videos too, but they are not loading.  We will do the best we can to keep you posted!  Love to you all!