And now there are 3!!!!

It's hard to believe the day has come but we are now a family of 3!!!!

The day was one of the toughest, yet most rewarding of my life. It is a moment Chris and I will never forget as long as we live...how is it you can love this little miracle so much without ever meeting her and then truly feel there is no way you can love her more...until you see her face and hold her for the first time. I didn't shed a tear all day but as I'm typing this the emotions of this all are finally hitting me. It was nothing short of amazing.

Sophia has some adjusting to do. We saw our fair share of tears today and it broke our hearts - all we really want is for her to be happy. Mei Chun told us that her report for last night was not a lot of sleep and she didn't eat this morning - well at least all of her bottle, which is rare. They say the babies can sense a change and after today, I completely agree with that. She is also sick with a cold and saw the doctor on Friday so she is getting over this and then on top of it meeting us for the first time. She slowly warmed up to me but was unsure of Chris. Chris stayed really calm and would just inch closer - then the lip would go -- by the time we were home, this was over. Kids are amazing how quickly they adjust she slept on the cab to the train, slept for all but 30 min of the 2 hr train ride and slept on the cab ride to the Hyatt.

We changed her diaper, gave her medicine, and then tried to feed her a bottle and then not but 1 hour later , we got our first smile, our first laugh, two HUGE yawns, giggles and waves and blowing kisses - didn't want to leave go our fingers - loved Mom's glasses and couldn't get over the amount of BLING her mom actually had - both fingers, ears, and necklace and then now a PJ shirt - she was in heaven LOL :)

The day started with us getting on the train and me realizing I left the camera in the cab in Taipei! So my husband being the super man he is said - hey I was getting sick of that camera anyway, don't worry about it - as I'm fighting back tears. But we had the video camera all juiced up and ready to go. Taipei was cold and rainy - by the time we got to Tainan it was 20 degrees warmer and it was really really HOT!!!!!!!! I couldn't believe it. This was really a true taste of what you think Taiwan would be like - we have tons of video we will post some. it was really cool. We got to SLC at 10 and Jessica met us there.

I cannot say enough about SLC - they LOVE LOVE LOVE these children and you can tell this by each and everything they do and say and how thankful they are to us for adoption yu=chen and it was an amazing experience - Jessica used her digital camera to take most of the pics you see posted and saved them to disk for us so we had them when we left AND she called Hyatt to see if my camera was turned in and withint 2 hours we got a call back saying they had the camera - amazing, We received tons of pictures o miss sophia and we also received a book where the caregivers wrote messages and hand painted drawings on each page, we had much information on the birth mom and we got to see the nursery adn teh babies for like 5 minutes. Sophia wouldn't go to anyone but me (secretly smiling) and the children were either waking up.sleeping and there were some playing. So I did not get as much interaction as I would have liked but I did request and have a list of the babies I wanted to see and take pictures of if possible. I got to see Jeremiah, Zane, Samantha, and Eric. Lucy was sleeping and I tried to look for Odin and I think I finally got a pic of him but we'll have to wait to get the other film developed and I'll get it saved to disk to send these families

It is hard to see these children getting older as they do have knowledge and separation of the enviorment and people they have grown accostumed too - I believe SLC understands this. They were wonderful and very caring people made us feel at home the minute we walked in - Mei Chun gave us her cell phone number so we could call her with anyquestions...especially as first time parents - and that really made us feel better/

Sophia is doing wonderful. She is sleeping in her crib and has been for the last hour - daddy ran out to get McDonald's for us :)

We are so very happy and feel truly blessed that this day has finally come. Miss Sophia cannot wait to meet everyone - she truly has a personality like I've never seen before. She is definitely sassy and this name fit! The pictures do not do her justice or anyh of the babies - she is more precious in person if that is possible! She is still a little little baby in many ways and the way she gripped onto me and my shirt today proves that she still needs us very much and tons of cuddling - we defeinitely got a cuddlier on our hands - oh and a screamer too - wouldn't have it any other way - LOL

The little fam is adjusting and doing well - shoving down mcd's and hitting the bed it's been an emotional but fabulous day

Oh and since they found our camera - we found these two mug shots of the cab driver when we downloaded the photos - oh and by the way - we DID NOT TAKE THESE, hey wait a minute isn't that the guy from cash cab the gameshow...hilarious!

And we will leave you with this - LOL

Thank you to everyone for the wonderful comments - we feel so connected with everyone and feel like we have TONS of support - we love ya for it and we'll post more tomorrow or maybe even later tonight depending on how Sophia does tonight - please pray for us :)

Love to all :)

Tiffany, Chris and SOPHIA