The Garden, our hotel in Guangzhou, has a beautiful little walking path, and a fish pond that the kids love… In the mornings, after we eat breakfast, little M and baby J and I like to take some bread out to feed the fish and take a little walk. I think this is baby J’s…

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I think this might be the hardest week I have ever had in my life… And this is not our first adoption, and we have been through some hard weeks. We have had open heart surgery for little M, baby J in casts for 14 weeks, baby J in the hospital with an unknown virus……

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Today little M, baby J, and I went on safari…in China. Little M was so excited to go back to the safari park, and had a list of the things she wanted to do most. Baby J is just excited about everything. This baby elephant was very curious about the kids… One of little M’s…

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Our boy was born four years and one month ago in Changsha, Hunan. Seventeen months ago, we were in Changsha to meet him, and make him a part of our family… Last week, we traveled back to Changsha to meet baby J’s baby sister. How surreal to be back in the town our boy was…

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Today was day six with our tiny P, who is still as sad and morose as she was on day two, sadly… Today was tiny P’s medical appointment, and this time around, since we were adopting a child under the age of two, she did not have to have blood drawn for a tb test.…

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We are settled in at our hotel in Guangzhou! We picked up tiny P’s new passport, and headed off to the airport. We got in and got settled, got some dinner, and went to bed. Tomorrow we will have tiny P’s medical appointment, which is part of what we need to get her visa at…

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After laying low all day yesterday, and giving tiny P some time to regroup and adjust a little more to our crazy family, we decided to venture out today for some fun… We headed to a nearby park… the same one we went to a year ago when we were here getting baby J! Little…

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For little M’s and baby J’s family days, we met them in the morning. Meeting your child in the morning means you don’t have as much time to stress and obsess… Tiny P’s orphanage is eight hours away from Changsha, where we are staying, and it is the capital of Hunan, so the adoption had…

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