Day 4

 

 

The Chen Clan Academy

 

Our supper!

Caleb likes Cheerios and Fries!

 

 

 We found Mexican food in China!!!!!!!!!!!!

They made fresh guacamole in front of us.

It was GOOD!!!

 

 Kyleigh finally got her some tacos!

The food here was really good!!!



Our itinerary

We are a week into our trip, but here is our schedule of events.  We have been pretty busy so far.  We seem to be pretty much drained of all our energy before supper each night, so we have been going to sleep early each night.
Please continue to pray for safety for us and the rest of our group as we travel and finish up our paperwork and appointments.

Aug. 18- Arrive in Guangzhou and check into the Garden Hotel

Aug. 19- sightseeing around Guangzhou

Aug. 20- meeting to gather all paperwork, 2:00pm meet to travel to Civil Affairs Office- Gotcha Day!

Aug. 21- Cival Affairs Office to finish up paperwork

Aug. 22- Police Station to apply for child's Chinese passport

Aug. 23- sightseeing at Chen Clan Academy

Aug. 24- Visit to orphanage and abandonment location

Aug. 25- take visa photo, medical exam and TB test

Aug. 26- LIWAN Plaza for shopping

Aug. 27- Guangzhou Zoo and Chinese restruaunt for Chinese Dumplings

Aug. 28- Boat cruise

Aug. 29- Consulate Appointment, Shamian Island to do some shopping

Aug. 30- Get visas that afternoon, take van to Hong Kong

Aug. 31- Flight home at 12:45am with 5 hour lay over in Seoul, South Korea, then onto the United States!!!!!!!!!!

Day 3

We had a quiet, lazy morning.  We woke up and played in the hotel room a little bit before breakfast.  After breakfast, we found a playroom in the hotel.  Caleb LOVED that!!! He had a ball playing with all of the toys. 
We had an appointment at the police station today at 3pm.  There we applied for Caleb's passport!  That was interesting!  LOTS of people!  But everything went well.  Our guide took care of everything. 
Later, we went for another early supper at a Chinese resturaunt.  I forgot to take pictures!  The food was good, but it was STRESSFUL trying to order!  The English menu was on typed paper with no prices or pictures.  We ate lots of fried rice!

This is a picture of our group.  More families will be joining us later this week,

but these families are together for the whole 2 weeks.  We are with a great group of families

and our wonderful guide, Rebecca.

 



Kyleigh and I thought we would play too!

This is right before Kyleigh jumps off and I go SPLAT

flat on the floor!



Day 2 with Caleb!

On Day 2, we went back to the Cival Affairs Office to finish the adoption interview and the notary interview.  We celebrated that night with an early supper at Pizza Hut with pizza and rice!!!! Then we all went to bed at 7:00!!!!!!  But he is sleeping all through the night and waking up in such a good, playful mood!  He is very easy going and content and laughs A LOT!!!!! He is such a good little boy.  Thank you so much to all for praying for us through this adoption.  God is good.  It is awesome to see God working His plan of bringing this little boy into our family.  It is amazing how Caleb just fits.  We can't wait to get him home and let him meet Chloe and Ethan and the rest of family.  

 

 

 

This is Caleb talking with Chloe and Ethan on the computer!

Gotcha Day!

We are sorry that we have not been posting lately!  But we have been doing A LOT!!!!!  There has been so much to do.  Caleb has really enjoyed playing in our hotel.  But we all have been so tired that we are going to sleep very early!  He sleeps well all through the night. 
Here are some pictures from our 1st day!

Gotcha Day!!!!

Aug. 20, 2012

We have a happy boy!!!

Almost to our Gotcha Day!

This was our family before we left Thursday night.

Our family of 5

will

soon

be

a

family of 6!!!!

We left Thursday night for the Atlanta airport.  Our flight was scheduled for 12:30am Friday morning.  We flew 141/2 hours to Seoul, South Korea.  We then had a 5 hours lay over.  Then boarded another plane for 3 hours to Guangzhou, China.  We had a Very LONG  day.  It was mine and Kyleigh's first time out of the United States.  Kyleigh did such a good job with the flight.  She watched 5 movies and slept a little!!

We made it to the Garden Hotel.  We unpacked our things in our room, then realized that the air was not working.  So, we packed everything up again, and we were moved to another room.  After we unpacked a few things, we decided to take a little nap.  A 9 hour nap!!!!  We woke up at 2:30 in the morning! Then decided at 4:30 we needed more rest, so we went back to sleep.

Today we went exploring!  We walked A LOT!!! We ended our night by eating at a Chinese Pizza Hut, and it was Very good!  We had a great day today, but we are extremely tired.  Can't wait for tomorrow.

Ian and I are a little nervous about tomorrow.  Tomorrow will be our Gotcha Day!  We will get to meet Caleb Xian Zhi Wynn for the 1st time.  Tonight we are working on questions to make sure that we ask the orphanage workers about him.  We want to know everything we can from the ones that have taken care of him so far. 

Our guide told us yesterday that she actually saw our son 2 weeks ago, when she was visiting the orphanage.  She kept telling him that his mama and daddy were coming for him.  She said that the workers kept showing him our pictures!! 

Please pray that he will have an easy transition to his new family. 



Updated Info and Pictures!!!!

We were suprised today to get more information on our little boy in China.  We received an email with updated measurements and these wonderful pictures!  They brought tears to my eyes.