We arrived in Taipei on Monday morning at about 6am. We immediately took a bus to the train station and caught a bullet train to Kaohsiung. We were completely on our own (no one to help) and I am proud to say that we had no difficulties.
When we finally reached our hotel, we were all so tired. We took showers and napped for about 3 hours. After our naps, we had McDonalds for lunch and headed to our adoption agency.
When we arrived at our agency they were so excited to see us. Hadley wasn’t there yet, but arrived with her foster mother within about 10 minutes. She is even more beautiful that her photos. She has a very pleasant demeanor. She is smiley and happy. Her foster mom says that she rarely cries. She was really reluctant to associate with either of us…she is very attached to her foster mom. She cried as soon as Chaunta tried to hold her and stopped as soon as she got back in her foster mom’s arms. She played with us and let us feed her Cheerios and was happy (as long as she was on her foster mom’s lap). Liam was immediately jealous and tried to climb up on Chaunta’s lap... Aiden on the other hand was in love with his new baby sister. She actually let Aiden hold her for a minute or so. Her foster mom told us that she has two little boys also in her care, ages 5 and 7. She loves playing with her “brothers” and her foster mom was so glad that she is going to have new brothers to play with. Aiden loved on her the whole time.
Finally after about 45 minutes she let Chaunta hold her for about 1 minute before she realized that she wasn’t with her foster mom. I think we are going to have a difficult transition while she gets used to her new family.
Her foster mom is great. It is obvious that she is being taken very good care of. Her foster mom told us that she loves her like her own daughter and is very sad to see her go, but very happy that she has a good family.
Tomorrow she is going for her visa medical exam in the morning and then we will get her at about 1:00 – 2:00pm. She will officially be ours. Then on Wednesday we are supposed to meet her birth mother.
Please pray that things go smoothly with the adoption and that she adjusts to her new family quickly.
Our First Glimpse
Mommy Gets a Smile
As Close as She Let Me Get
Aiden Showing His Sister His Toys 
Aiden Holds His Sister -She really likes him!
Liam's Jealous Face
Saying Good Bye for the Day 
8 comments:
I am soo happy for you guys that you finally got to hold your baby girl. She is so beatuiful and I can't wait for her to come back home with you and play with Jorja. You guys are truly blessed with a beautiful family. Lots of Love, Sarah Blair
liam is hilarious. so happy for you guys. glad she connects so good with aiden. awesome she already is used to two older brothers. Get home soon. love ya guys.
tim pruitt
I can't stop crying! I am overwhelemed with joy for you guys! I will be praying for your whole family. She is blessed to have you both as parents, and Aiden and Liam for brothers! I can not wait to see her! Love you guys!
What an incredible day! There's nothing quite like that first meeting... thanks for sharing. Congratulations!
Oh goodness, she is BIG!
She is soo cute.
Gosh, I am so happy for you guys. She will love all of you in no time. I love the pics of her with Aiden!
I can't wait to see her with you guys!!!
You know, I am going to be on here checking around 3am hoping for an update if you have had time:) Only 12 more hours to go!!!
Karsen and I are reading this everyday at story time so she wants to tell Hadley "I like your cheeks Hadley and I think you should marry Will".
Congratulations! What a day!
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