One week

We have been in China for one week today...

So much has happened in the past 7 days it blows me away.

The best being that Ani is now a part of our family..

We have loved her through pictures and emails for so long but now we really know her, and get to discover all that makes her her first hand... It is so wonderful!

This is her about 30 minutes after we met. She is playing hide and seek with Hope...

Playing blocks in our room...

 

She is an amazing little girl, who came to us full of life and SPUNK! She is a girl who knows how to have fun and likes to be silly. And at the same time she is sweet at her core. She and now gives us random kisses and hugs, which are the best kind if you ask me :)

When I think about how many new things she has experienced in the past week and how graceful she has managed to adapt to it all I am in awe of her....

She has gone from a somewhat simple life in her familiar orphanage to eating new foods, wearing unfamiliar clothes, riding in taxi's and planes and living with a crazy white family...

She is something... She is super smart and soaks up all the new things we are teaching her. While at the same time she is able teach us Important things like queuing us to take her potty, and communicating that she likes her hood on when she's wearing her coat... She is so crazy smart...

We visited her orphanage and got to see the staff and other kids go crazy over seeing her again. We toured the building and everywhere we went someone was calling her name and wanting to kiss and hold her. She did great... She was comfortable being ther but wanted to go with us when we left ( thank the Lord).

Here is a picture of Ani with the Nannie that raised her for the last two years... Beautiful woman...

And random pictures of our first week together :)

 

 

 

 

We have Internet access so I will be sharing more soon....

Cindy... Mom of FOUR...

 

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