Adoption final & the trip to Walmart

Yesterday our day started bright an early with a trip to breakfast in the
non heated lobby restaurant. The food is good but Kalvin is not feeling
well and we kept hoping that he would not have an issue on the way to the
officials building.

We all met at 8am and loaded into a bus for the 10 min drive to the
Nanchang officials building. First stop was our family photo for the
adoption certificate, then her photo for her passport. Then we headed
down the hall to the big room where we waited to for the okay from Evelyn
to go and meet with the rep from the Bank of China that exchanged our
money into Yuan - the rate dropped from Friday 6.79 to 6.57 so we were
lucky that we brought extra funds.

We exchanged some extra money and the funds given to us for the orphanage.
We talked to Evelyn about a donation for the orphanage she said she would
be happy to help us out and we could leave the donation at the Nanchange
officials office and the orphanage director would pick it up on their next
trip into Nanchang. Nanchang is about 1.5 hr drive from Fuzhou.

Then we proceeded to the interview where they asked if our occupations,
when we got married, would we promise to always care for her, never
abandon her and provided for an education for her. Then there was the all
important question about why we wanted to adopt from China.

After the interview we got a chance to ask the orphanage assistant director
questions about the babies. Sissi was our translator. We asked to
clarify if she was found by an employee of the orphanage and he check and
said yes and it was an employee he new well. He also told us that she
likes men more, which is obviously the case as she definitely prefers
Kalvin over me. (The first day he couldn't leave the room without her
crying even harder) We asked Sissi about sending updates or having
contact with the foster families and she said that it all has to occur
through the orphanage. Each girl has a nanny that checks twice a week on
the babies in the foster families. The families come to the orphanage
once a month to get their stipend. The orphanage provides food, clothing
and medical care for all the babies.

We were told the name of Rorrie's foster mom but it didn't mention if
there was a family or just the woman. His answer made Sissi jump and get
really excited because much to her and our immense surprise it was his
wife. Rorrie had been living with him (the assistant director) all this
time. We got a picture together. She had smiled big and laughed when he
came over so it all fell into place. He was extra sweet with her rubbing
her face and touching her head and it was clear she knew him!!

The only downside was when he left she started to cry and that didn't
really stop until she went to bed for the night. It was obviously very
traumatic for her seeing him again and having him leave, which broke our
hearts. It will be good to have the picture to show her later in life but
today it was very hard on her.

After everyone was done it was back onto the bus and onto the notary
office where we had our adoption decree's notarized and then everything
was final. It was at the notary office where Ronnie & Rose's parents
(Larry & Susanne) meet the clothing police (elderly ladies who were
concerned that the twins weren't covered up enough). Poor Hannah was
crying and before Mindy knew it a women scooped up Hannah to try and get
her to stop. Mindy & Jay got her back quickly but Mindy was kinda
startled. I told her that having the baby in the snuggly or a stroller
will keep other from taking the babies away. The ladies mean well and are
only trying to help but it's confusing for the babies.

Then we headed back to the hotel to get a nap some food and to meet again
at 3:30pm to head to WALMART. MaMa ordered rice for BaBa (due to his poor
sick belly) and rice noodle soup for Rorrie and I to share. She sucked
down those noodles like nothing. So officially she likes Kangi (a rice
porridge), noodles and bananas.

Kalvin stayed in the room with Rorrie as he was still sick. So at the
store MaMa bought a stroller, formula (3 large boxes), rice(2 large
boxes), water, soda, nuts, those stacking formula/rice holders - the ones
we found in Guangzhou during Kassidy's adoption that I couldn't find in
the states. Two new sippy bottles that the babies can drink sitting up
(like the ones I bought during Kassidy's trip) and some replacement
straws, a pair of baby shoes, Oreo cookies and I can't remember what
else... about $627 Yuan - just under $100 dollars.

Then we tried to carry everything out of the store (you can't bring the
carts). So it was a good thing I bought the stroller so I could put the
water & soda in it and roller it out the door.

As for Walmart........ WOW two floors with multiple employees at each isle
to help people and it was definitely a SUPERWALMART. The escalators are
more like a sliding ramp up and down and the carts have magnets in the
wheels so they stick to the ramp!! Very cool... also the wheels slide
sideways so it was easy to maneuver around the isle, which was good
because it was PACK with people and it wasn't the busy time of day.

So our biggest adventure in Walmart was the crazy man who insisted that he
was from Croatia and was our cousin. He kept taking stuff out of our
carts. Then our guides Evelyn & Sissi told him to go away but he
wouldn't. Then he started spitting in the isle next to us and blowing his
nose on the floor around us. Security arrived and finally took him away.
Whew!

So attached is the picture of all of us with her foster father.

Tomorrow we meet with the doctors for a check up and have a family dinner
out.