Forever day!

Today was just a busy day! Today marks such an important milestone because Sophie is officially ours according to China law. We took an oath that we would not abuse or abandon her. When filling out paperwork for our adoption, we were told that the camera in the civil affairs office was broken and we were to go to a photo studio to get our family photo done. By this point, little Sophia was just so tired and the photographer freaked her out. Our family photo is one of a precious screaming baby girl. From that time on - she has been much more weary of men in general.

We finally got back and had bath time, which Sophia LOVED. She is just such a hoot - she is spunky and crazy all wrapped up with really sweet - she is just the perfect child that God hand chose for us and for our family. She is very social and giggles to herself when she plays. She likes it when we get crazy with her too!

She is such a teeny little one. Her hair is also quite thin. We were told that she lived in a foster home with two teenage sons in the country and wonder if she did not get enough food. Her ribs just stick out. The amazing thing is that she loves any food that we give her without rejection - so we anticipate it to be only a short time until she is to a healthy weight for her size.

She is also fighting something. I gave her Tylenol tonight and called UW who told me to give her the antibiotics, just because babies with cleft do have a harder time with ear infections and we will be flying very soon. She seemed ok with both meds. Her chest cough is pretty bad. Please pray for her.

This is just the awesome proof about how awesome God is. The lady from California that I have become very close to, who happens to be Cana's mommy - and we have had dinner with them and hung out with them often, adopted the sweet baby girl from Sophie's farming village and she was in the same baby room as Sophia in the orphanage! Sophia really loves this little girl and you can tell that she knows her well. It has just been so awesome and I know that because of our girls and God's hand, we will be friends for life.

We are so in love with this little one! Can't wait till tomorrow to see what we get to know more about this amazing little one!

Kids - Sophia is going to LOVE you guys so much! Daddy and I showed her the pictures of you guys and she always wants to look at the photo book and touch you and have us tell her who you are! Only 10 more days!!! We love you guys.

On a total side note, which we will write about later, Kunming is GORGEOUS!!! This place is great!!!