Katie Yangting Louise Wolff

Katie is now officially our daughter!

She has been in our arms since about 3:00 pm local time, which is 11:00 pm your time. By the time we met her, completed paperwork, returned to the hotel and fed her it was well after 5:00 our time. I am now writing at 7:45 pm our time as we have just put Katie (Ting Ting so far) to bed. We will introduce her to Ellie and grandparents via Skype tomorrow morning our time. Tomorrow afternoon for them. Here's how the day went.

We met our guide Joy in the hotel lobby at 5:45 am. We arrived at the airport at 6:30 am. We parted ways with Joy at the security gate and found the gate for our flight. We boarded the plane at 7:30. Our flight was supposed to leave at 8:00 but we were delayed for and hour sitting by the runway. The delay was explained thoroughly in Chinese. We arrived in Guangzhou at 12:00 instead of 11:00 beacuse of the delay. The hotel had sent a driver to pick us up, but they chose not to stick around and wait for the extra hour. So, we hired a taxi to take us to the hotel. What a ride! We arrived at the hotel at 1:30. We contacted our guide who had left a note for us at the desk. She arranged to meet us in the lobby at 2:30. In the meantime, I had to go to the bank and exchange U.S. money into Chinese Yuan. The conversion is 6.75 Chinese Yuan for every U.S.dollar. Needless to say, I walked back to the hotel and to our room with obviously bulging pockets. We had about 20 minutes to freshen up and get paperwork straight, then we met our guide in the lobby. A half an hour later we received Katie amongst at least 15 other families that were receiving their kids as well. The day was crazy!

Katie cried quite a bit when we first got her and for the entire time we were in the adoption center. Once we left however, she calmed down and has been so ever since. She is very observant of everything going on around her, but has been very quiet. Probably to be expected as she had never left the orphanage, seen white people or heard English before today. As we fed her and then went out to dinner, she seemed to be taking it all in and also very content to cling to Heather. She's not too sure of me yet. Probably not a lot of men around the orphanage as well.

Tommorow brings more paperwork, and more time getting to know our new daughter. Thank you all for your prayers as we have been on this journey. I cannot tell you have we have been guided, sustained and reassured by Him over and over again. Looking forward to a good night of sleep (hint, hint, wink, wink) maybe :)
P.S. For those of you participating in the trivia quiz the answers were:
d) all of the above
and
b and c) tears and screaming followed later by a) silence....so d) all of the above