Baby Kiana

2:10pm and we're in the bus headed off to be united with our daughter. We arrive early and spend some time preparing some forms that need to be submitted for the adoption. As soon as we finish with the forms, we rush out to a waiting room where they start calling our names. There's plenting of shuffling of camera's to make sure each moment is properly captured. And finally we were called and matched with our beautiful baby girl.







We've had the rest of the evening free to spend time alone as a family and get to know our new little one. We went down to the hotel buffet for dinner, and as we were finishing our meal a caucasian woman made her way over to us to ask us where we were from. Turns out she is from Holland and 11 years ago the were in Chongqing adopting their baby girl. She's now nearly a teenager and this is their first time returning to China, along with their daughter!

Kiana has really been pretty good this first evening together. She hasn't eaten a whole lot and towards the end of the evening was getting fussy. We were told she's an introvert and does not smile willingly at strangers. We have yet to get a smile out of her, but she looks us in the eyes and enjoyed a musical toy we brought for her. She's now asleep in her crib, Sheryl's crashed in bed, and I'm ready to sign off as well. We'll post more pics in the next few days. 4 more days in Chongqing and then off to Guangzhou where we get her American visa.

Oh, Kiana's given name is Xiu Huayin (pronounced hoo-ah-yeen). Her nickname at the orphanage was yin-yin (pronounced yeen-yeen), so we're sticking with that for now, and as she bonds with us we'll transition her to Kiana.

Lots of love from Chongqing,
Brian & Sheryl