Bringing Home Meigan

We are overjoyed, grateful, and exhausted! here are todays events...

Well today was the day, at about 3 pm we left our hotel and went to another hotel where all of the babies were at. There were about 15 families there total to get babies. Alot of them were for special needs babies, and some weren't. We were in a room with five other families waiting for them to bring the babies in. They brought all of their babies in first and they all started crying and fussing. Meigan was not in the building yet and so we videoed and took pictures for them. Then we were told Meigan had arrived and so we went into a room where she was, which was nice because it was quiet and we were by ourselves. We walked into the room and saw her and they let us take pictures of her but the would not let us hold her yet because the lady from the government was not done in the other room and she had to verify all of the paperwork. Luckily that was only a few moments and then she was in our arms. She did not fuss, cry or scream at all.

She was very active the whole time, she liked playing with the links that Jodie brought and would go to either of us without any problem. We took alot of pictures and video, unfortunately I can't upload the video here but I did post a short video we did in our hotel room in the post below. She is very content and active. After about 10 minutes we said good bye to the orphanage director and staff and we left the building. We drove over to Wal-mart and bought a few things. She loved being in there, she loves watching people and things and is very curious. She is also always crossing her fingers as you can see in the pic above. She must be our good luck charm! In the car ride she was acting a bit hungry so we gave her some Vanilla wafer pieces and she loved them. She couldn't get enough of them, she has two lower teeth at this point.

Then when we got back to the hotel we went to a restaurant next door and our guide ordered her some custard and rice and mixed them together. She ate it right up. The orphanage tells us she likes a combination of fish/meatballs. Good luck getting any of that at our house! After dinner we brought her back to the hotel and gave her a bottle mixed with formula and rice cereal. She drank 2/3 of it and fell asleep. She is sleeping right now in her crib and has not fussed once except when we changed her diaper. We later found out from some notes from the orphanage that she doesn't wear a diaper during the day, that she uses the toilet 16-18 times a day! Good grief, that doesn't leave much time left for anything else.

She is not walking by herself, but she will walk if you hold her hands and she will stand for a moment by herself. We also received a disc today that has pictures from her foster mom from the day after she was born until recently, we also received two cameras that we sent over that we will have developed that has current photos. She has been in foster care since the day after she was born until this morning. We did not receive the address of the foster mom, per the rules of the province here.