Our First Morning Together

Cash, Joel and I woke up around 5 or 6 am. Cash kept wanting to know if we could wake Ling Ling. It was very tempting; she is so darn adorable and we were so darn curious and excited. Ling Ling woke up at 7am on the dime; just like her updated bio says. She woke up happy and ready to go. She was hungry and had a very healthy appetite. We made her bottles at the mini bar and ordered her room service of congee (rice porridge). We put her in the outfit I bought her months ago when we got our referral. We were about to have a very big day of making the adoption official - being interviewed by a judge at the China Adoption Affairs and applying for her expedited passport. We were grateful we have our two facilitators making everything happen since we arrived in Lanzhao, Tom and Jim, as we would not be able to begin to do this on our own.