It's Official!!

Today we took care of all the paperwork, interviews, gifts, donations, fees, etc. here in Nanchang. Noelle is officially our adopted daughter here in China! We even received a really nice red hard covered certificate document and a gift from her orphanage and another gift from the Civil Affairs Department here in Nanchang. At our request, Director Zhou from Noelle's orphanage in Fuzhou City even had his photo taken with us. Everything went wonderfully today.

Different subject....
Noelle is a riot! She loves to imitate us. We are having so much fun with her it is crazy. Right now she is trying to imitate Tonya saying "water". She is a little fussy at times because she has a cold we think. Tonya is now her security blanket whenever we go anywhere. I carried her across the busy city street from the Civil Affairs building on Gotcha Day but she's mommy's girl now. I think she enjoy's playtime with all of us though when we're here in the hotel room. She has a sweet little raspy voice when she laughs and babbles. She is a sweetie....hope it carries over on the flight to Guangzhou and the journey home to Maine.

We'll try to post some photos and video from Gotcha Day but it really went wierder than we expected.