First Night Home!

The Infamous brown envelopes that you can not open or they will be null and void and your child will not be able to come into the US! (or something like that) eek! And we had 2 of them to make sure they made it ok!



Hanging in the airport in Shanghai! So glad we bought the stroller... it was so much easier to contain Kimi that way... we still had to park her away form most things as she will grab ANYTHING!


Maria sleeping away! Looking so tiny in her big seat! We got the whole row of bulkhead seats! Although every time there was the tiniest bit of bumpy air... the ladies would come by and make Jerry and Kimi get off the floor (sleeping) and get buckled into their chairs! haha! Maria and I stayed in our seats...

Waiting in Chicago! So close to home!!!


On the last stretch home... a 45 minute flight...

we were all sooo tired! But we still made the girls get changed into their "ladybug" outfits form aunt Bonnie for their arrival! heehee

The ride home in the truck! Maria... still sleeping! Kimi did not like that flash! :)
Coming in the back door!


Seeing their room for the first time! (remember it was around midnight...)

We put the railing back up before she could sleep in there that night! We did not want her running around the house in the night... scary.
These beds have been waiting a LONG TIME for little girls!!!
First picture with all 4 at home, in their pjs and "ready" for bed!
We had dreamed for so long what it would be like to have a little girl in bed with all of us... that we just had to try it for a few minutes at least! Yeah... we won't be sleeping like that if we can help it. haha

Some warm milk! The boys insisted on helping!
Kimi was too big for Anthony to hold her... so... not sure why her pjs are down though! haha!

Oh Man! It feels good to be home!!!

From now on, I will be blogging over at Cook Family Adventures since the trip to China is over and the girls are now part of the "cooks" :) Besides... its simpler to try to keep up one blog! Should we get to go to China again... we will pop back over here to journal!

Thanks so much for following our journey to our girlies!!

Red Couch Day and Leaving!!!!

So lady-like... i know... unfortunately we didn't have any red bloomers!
Such a cute smile!!
Oh no!!! she's messing with my toes!!!
This one is probably my favorite... although i t=like the one above of Kimi smiling... now if i could just put the two together it would be the PERFECT picture!
oh no... maybe this is my favorite!!! hahahahaha!!! I really think she was trying to suck or bite on her toes... no kidding.

And she was still trying to find any last trace of sock fuzz with her little super fine motor-skilled fingers!!! She is obsessed with getting any tiny piece of fuzz off of her!!!

I love this one, even though we can't see her face... she looks dainty, even though she's not yet...
Jerry "fixed" her..
for a second...

I love this one though.
after going back and forth... one good of Maria, one good of kimi... and e good of Jerry... i decided that you will have seen enough of the good ones of the girls... so went with the good one of Jerry!
I just want to remind you that Kimi is difficult to get pictures of... she is constantly trying to run away... no interest in paying attention to us... soooo you get more pictures of Maria, who likes her picture taken...
Standing at the bird cage, next to the bar... lots of cute little chirping bird in there!

Kimi actually looked at them for like a second... then she was turning to find another woman's purse to dig in...




Some day.. she is going to ask me why i couldn't get many decent pictures of her... she is going to be disgusted that she was always acting like such a goof ball... We would be walking along holding her hand and she would just suddenly try to throw herself to the floor... who knows why... but we had to hold on tight the her hand so that she wasn't always on the "dirty" ground...
We took a little walk around the hotel... since we were leaving that afternoon... we wanted to make sure that we didn't miss anything.


We went up to the 41st floor... the elevator won't let "us" go the 42nd... we looked out the escape ladder windows! Pretty big city!



Packed and ready to leave for Shanghai!! See our cute new stroller!?
The girls had a little nap before we had to leave!

On the flight... Maria sat in a chair until the person who needed to sit there came along... she was loving it... I know Jerry took a picture of Kimi in hers but i don't know where the picture is... it was on his phone...
I actually cried when we had to leave Guangzhou! Mostly leaving Cordelia! Goodness sakes! I wanted to bring her with us! I gave her my personal Bible... because she had been asking lots of questions... and she was wanting to learn the differences between Buddhism and Christianity. She was just so sweet... Its amazing how you can love someone so quickly!

We arrived in one airport in Shanghai and had to drive across the city to the international airport... we so hoped to "see" some of Shanghai, but the airport is a LONG ways out and our hotel was AT the airport, which was fine... it made going the next day easier! So we saw Shanghai at night... midnight actually, and it was fantastic in size! It took us a good hour to drive full speed through... no traffic that late, people there actually go to bed at night! ha! Jerry tried to video driving through but seriously it was that dark, even in the city! the video did not turn out AT ALL!

While we were glad to be going home to the boys we were sad to leave China... and the weather in Guangzhou was wonderful... perfect, really. I can't believe the trip was over... finished...

Bye Bye China... We hope to see you again!