A little more detail with pics!

Sorry , the pics are out of order, but I explained what most of them are at least...

More written detail below!!!  Enjoy, and missing home and you all so much!!!

Daddy helping Leah while we wait to have paperwork finalized at her province.  She was walking around in circles and was getting dizzy!

More kisses for baby sister!!!!

Waiting to have things finalized!  This little one does not stop!!!  

Her paperwork said she is active and they weren't kidding!!!

She loves to walk around...  Boy am I going to have my hands full when

we get home!!!  I already forgot how much work a little one is.  I cannot believe that

Bekah is SUCH a big girl now... boo hoo!!!!

Our family with the Orphanage Director.

Its official!!!!!  The little red book!

Dinner at the Chinese restaurant downstairs in the hotel.

Very tired Mommy!!!!!!

Sisters !!!!  I LOVE IT..

First bath and doing just fine!!!!

Bekah loved having her in the tub with her...

Our last family photo as 3!!!  On our way to gotcha, just across the street from hotel!

Daddy and his GIRLS!!!!

Jie Jie Bekah wanting to give kisses right away!!!  Too cute...

On gotcha day, Bekah was so excited to touch and love on her...

Clearly I am not a fan of this picture of me, but Look at that face!!!!

How can you not love it and she smiles a lot!!!!!!!

Not one tear out of this one unless you put her down when she doesn't want it!

Feeding Mommy cheerios and gerber puffs right away, yippee!!!

You can see behind her that she got her care package we sent her and they took the pictures.

I cannot wait to see them!!!

I absolutely love the picture.  They had her in the clothes I sent to her under ALL the layers of other stuff they put on them!!!  Look how big those pants are!!!  18 month outfit...  But the shirt is not too bad.  She has a shape just like Beks.  Little legs and longer torso!  She really is so small!!!

They girls would always have such a good time on the bus and get all they 

way to the back seat. This is the Bjorns little girl. This is while we were still

in Beijing before we went to our separate provinces.

Ok, they were having a little too much fun!!

This is one of our guides in Beijing.  Helen.  Bekah LOVED her

and she loved Bekah!!!  We miss her.

This is at the Great Wall.  It was soooooo cold.

We went to a different part this time.  Look at how steep it was.  

That was the first tier.  Pete and Melissa from AWAA and one other lady

went all the way to the top.  I couldn't go obviously, but it was so steep that my

fear of heights wouldn't have let me anyways!

Well, everyone is out sightseeing today, and I am resting my ankle.  I got a good nights sleep last night as I went to bed by 10:30 and woke up at 7:15, whoooo hooooo!  Leah did not fall asleep until I went to bed, so she is a tired girl today.  She sure has a pleasant personality and is so happy!!!  That makes me happy.  I hate that I am not with her now, but I know she needed to get out and see the world with her Daddy and Bekah.  She is curious about everything.  She is such a good eater and LOVES congee.  Bekah did not care about it, but this one shakes when she sees it.  It is so funny!!  Bekah absolutely LOVES her little sister and wants to touch on her and kiss her all the time, but Leah isn't always a fan of it.  

They took a bath together last night and it was great.  Leah was very curious about the floating toys.  She would push them over and watch the roll back up straight.  She didn't mind me pouring water over her head, at least after I did it to Bekah first...  I was dreading the bath thing, but it went great!

I am not feeling so hot today.  I think the sleep thing is really catching up with me and not eating well.  That is the one thing that is soooo hard here.  We are in a very busy city and right in the middle of it, so it is hard to get around unless you take the van or taxi.  Our guide didn't even want to take us across the street last night because it would have been too hard, so we ate at the Chinese restaurant in the hotel, but it was pretty good!!

We are just sooo happy, and when I get to hold this precious angel when I feed her her bottle I get the warmest happiest feeling.  She loves to smile back at me when I am feeding her and I love that.  When I say Hi while doing it, she will stop eating and try to imitate it.  Too cute.  She also loves to pretend bite at you and just laughs and laughs.  She is also a tease.  She will put food at your mouth and then take it away and gets a big grin.  

She does only babble, unless she is imitating you, she doesn't really use her lips.  That is something Bekah struggled with for a long time and still does.  I am sure it is a palate/lip issue, so we will have a lot of work ahead of us on that front.

I am looking forward to moving onto Guangzhou, but our guide here is awesome!!!!  We also have on of the China coordinators here with us from our agency and she is so sweet.  It is nice having her here with us!

Ok, off to rest and clean this room... UGH, it is sooo small and a wreck as our days have always been a scramble.  We get to go to the orphanage tomorrow, but they told us we would not be allowed to take pictures, but I am going to try and to my best to get some for those waiting families.

Have a blessed day everyone!!  Thanks for visiting our journey.  Praising God for all our blessings and watching over us during this long, but amazing journey.  Looking soooooo forward to being home!

Love Dawn, Pete, Bekah AND Leah!