Registration Complete

Luke ~ Ready for the Day


Today was our adoption registration. As of about 10:00 this morning, Luke became our son in the eyes of the Chinese Government. It was another emotion filled day. It all happened very quickly. We were the first of three families to go through the process. First we were seated at a table with an official of some kind and we had to answer some of his questions, i.e. name, age, occupation, do you realize this is a special needs child, do you promise to provide education for him, do you promise never to mistreat or abandon him....CHECK

Daddy, Mommy, and Luke all had to provide thumbprints on the documents.








The next table to the left was the notary. She made our documents official. Guess we passed. :)

Then we took a little time to take family pictures. Never mind the finger in the nose. This is a habit we have to work on breaking. Oh well.





This next picture includes our Province guide, Nancy.


This is the assistant director of the SWI. It is so obvious that she loves these children. What a blessing she is. We will get to spend some more time with her tomorrow during our visit to Xuzhou. Send me some good questions I should ask. HELP!


Three adoption finalizations today! Yea for these forever families!



Tonight we tried this restaurant. (photo below take from our hotel room window) The restaurant is the one with the red lanterns behind the blue bus. It really was delicious. Let me set the scene for you. We went with another family and chose to go somewhat early. So honestly, we were the entertainment in there for the night. We drew a crowd. I'm not sure anyone really spoke any English, but there was English on the menu so we did some pointing. Now for the funny part. They brought the food, and then stood back to enjoy the show. Not all of us are proficient with chopsticks so you can imagine the chuckles going on around our table. Hahahaha After about 10 minutes of this, they brought forks. Can you imagine? :) I was thankful for the fork just for cutting Luke's food. He ate well from chopsticks, but he doesn't really get that he's supposed to bite off noodles of that he can't have an entire chunk of sweet and sour pork in his mouth all at once. Ah well. It was good, and I would bet that we'll be back over there at least once before we say goodbye to Nanjing.



Big day tomorrow! Bullet train to Xuzhou to see the SWI. Prayers for emotional strength for all of us and that Ron and I are the parents Hope and Luke need us to be tomorrow as they process this visit.

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