The boy loves reading the airplane safety cards every time we fly.
Wharton lobby. Getting ready to go to the Registration hotel.
Anxiously waiting in the Wharton lobby to go get our girls.
Everyone's ready but nervous.
I'm still jet-lagged but happy to be here.
Let's go!
This is the badge we wore everywhere, in case someone asked questions.
Our guide Michael & an orphanage official greeting us right before getting the kids.
Here's our girl!!!
Oh my gosh! How cute is she?!!
Not so happy to sit on daddy's lap yet.
She loved looking at her ge-ge right from the start.
Leaving with all our babies.
Who ARE you people??!?!?
She's showing us the pictures from her little album.
“See? That's my grandma and grandpa.”
Back at the hotel we all take some time to check each other out and cry.
“Ummmm, hi?”
First Cheerio
(Half a smile)
She likes the stacking cups
First night with us in the crib. She slept all night!
The orphanage's Director, us and one of her nannies.
The Pingnan girls and their new families.
Swimming on the hottest day ever.
First bath with us!
It's actually impossible to get to the -1 floor. (A dept. store in Nanning)
McDonalds, China-style.
We joked this would be the first of many “baby and daddy sleeping” pictures.
Guai! (Cute!)
She loves remotes.
Breakfast at the Wharton. Good food.
First game of peek-a-boo!
The typhoon just missed us but it did ran all of one day.
She loves stroller rides!!!
Nanning, population 7 million.
Walking in the lake park. Doug (GA), Dwayne (TX), Dwayne (ID), the boy & me, Margie & Greg (NC)
Family photo!
The leaf collector had a ball in this park.
Dwayne & Sephanie checking out the water park.
What do you know - she walks!
Mmm, sticky white rice!!!
The boy & I helped some local folks retrieve a ballon from these trees. (at the Nanning zoo)
Got it! The locals all laughed and applauded us.
Wow, that's a lot of Koi in the “Carp Enjoyment Area” at the zoo!
More of Nanning.
Our first solo shopping trip, via taxi, in Nanning.
