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Wednesday, Feb 28, 2007 - Emma Day 3
Our situation is a little different from everyone else's here in Changsha because I happen to have a ton of family who live here who are all vying for our time. My father was born in a town just outside of Yi Yang where Emma was also born. We like musing that she's probably a blood relative because of the area she's from and her similar features. You know, all Chinese are probably distantly related somehow when traced far back enough. And in a greater divine sense, we as humans are all brothers and sisters and are all somehow related.
My father came from a family of 9 brothers and 3 sisters. Many of his immediate family live in or around Changsha. This is the first time for me and Stephen to meet our relatives in Hunan so it's an experience we would never want to miss out on. And how amazing for them to also get to meet Emma! We felt very torn from wanting to spend alone time with Emma to bond and let her get acclimated and spending more time with my relatives. The trick was to balance quality time with them with quality time with Emma. And we also very much wanted to spend time with the other families and their babies in our group.
In the end, we made things work out and everything worked out for the best. It seemed a little crazy at first to drag Emma out to meet relatives who were also strange to us but they soon made us feel extremely at home. They all went crazy for Emma and it was so wonderful to be able to have her meet so many members of her family. She is surrounded by loving doting relatives who all immediately welcomed her into the family.
I spent some quality time with Emma today playing in bed, singing to her, helping her stand and get her bearings. She LOVES music, singing and dancing. She can sit up from a laying position to flipping on her tummy and then rolling over and sitting up and then stand herself up from sitting. Emma is also incredibly limber--she can do splits and lift up her legs in split position in the air and put her feet behind her ears!!! Most likely a gymnast or ballerina or Cirque de Soleil performer/acrobat-to-be! She has very long legs and is very tall and skinny (future model!)
Tuesday, Feb 27, 2007 - Official Adoption of Babies
Yesterday upon receiving our child, we were still only considered by the Chinese government to be guardians of the child. Today we went back to complete paperwork to officially become the adoptive parents of our children for the rest of our lives! Yes! Now no one can ever take our precious Emma away from us.
We decided yesterday almost immediately upon getting to know our baby girl that she really is an Emma and that Emileen is just too grown-up for her right now. I just look at her and she has Emma written all over her and it suits her so well. So she's officially nicknamed Emma and as only time will tell, she may grow into Emileen. At this point, I don't want her to grow at all because she's just the perfect size--she's a little pumpkin and fits perfectly into my arms and we don't get tired at all carrying her. We noticed so many of the other parents are really feeling the weight of their babies (which is good--don't get me wrong--but we're just appreciating our light little load right now!)
After signing the papers, we became the official forever proud parents of Emileen Kendall Moore (aka: Yi Ru Ge, aka: Emma). Can't believe this has finally happened! Thank you God for this incredible blessing in our lives.
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