Last Post from China!!

Today was a new day! Check out those teeth!
She laughed and played with us for a long time tonight!

Super family with our FTIA coordinator..Catherine

Proud Momma and Lydia

Inside the White Swan Hotel

The famous "red couch" picture at the White Swan

Lydia in her new Chinese dress

Again, puckering up

Resting against Baba

Lydia giving Momma kisses

At the Buddist Temple

Some really great new friends from NY

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At the museum

Fans at the museum

Woodwork at the museum

Stained glass at the museum

Museum

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Lydia and Momma playing in the White Swan Playroom

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Night life in Guangzhou

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Well...Lydia finally fell asleep and we are now giving our luggage to the bellboy. Tomorrow morning we leave the White Swan Hotel at 5:30 am. We are SO ready to come home. Today was an amazing day. We went to the Consulate and had our swearing ceremony. It was pretty sweet.

Lydia tried broccoli, said her first words; Momma and Baba (and Dadda), and laughed, danced, clapped her hands, and melted our hearts. We had several sweet moments today. What a great last day in China. Tonight we all got together at our favorite restaurant Lucy's. We all had a great time.

So...we are just finishing up and getting ready to chill before bed.

I guess we will see you all (Lord willing) tomorrow at 6:23pm at the Louisville airport. NW #1884.

Please continue to pray for us........looking forward to getting HOME and seeing all of you. :)

Love the Super family

Guangzhou, China: we are loving it!

Today, I finally got Lydia to laugh at breakfast time so we thought this shirt was appropriate!
Lydia chowing down on some good chicken congee

As you can see..she was pretty hungry

The Ellis family hanging out with us for lunch

Lydia's new pajamas

Teaching the Chinese people what "you rock" means..we had so much fun!

Park next to the White Swan Hotel

The White Swan Hotel is located on the Shamian Island...it is just gorgeous here. This is part of the park on the Shamian Island.

More pictures of the park

Again...the park

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Sunset in Guangzhou, China--Shamian Island

The weather here is hot during the day and cool in the evening

View of the Island

Picture of the sunset

Today we went shopping in the district. It was pretty fun. Lydia is just doing great. We are falling in love with her more and more each day. She seems to be doing pretty well with Baba too. She still doesn't like to try new foods, but I am not going to stress out about that. We haven't even had her for a week yet!

We only have two more days here. It is a bittersweet thing. We really like Guangzhou....I mean we really like it! But...we are totally ready to get back home.

Thanks to all of you who helped us get here. We are forever grateful.

Tomorrow we are going on a city tour and we are also going to a Buddist Temple...this should be interesting........

Until then....

So many pictures...so little time!

View from our room at the White Swan Hotel: Guangzhou, China
This was waiting for us in our room when we came back from getting her medical exam--Mattel gives one to each adopted child that stays at the White Swan.

View from room at White Swan

Inside the White Swan Hotel..this place is about 5 steps up from where we were in Nanning!!

Walking down the strip in Guangzhou

Bronze sculpters in the Guangzhou park

Lydia napping after medical exam..she did so well!! By the way..she is in good health!

Reaching out for Baba. Today is a good day.

Catholic Church in Guangzhou

Seriously, can you get any cuter than this?

Lydia chillin'..as you see..she is a tumb sucker

Baba and Lydia snuggling after medical exam

Lydia being measured and weighed

Lydia is getting her throat looked at

Calm before the storm...before medical exam..these are most of the kiddos in our group

Streets in Nanning, China

Flowers from the People's Park in Nanning

Kids on a field trip at the People's Park--they were so friendly!

The UFO ride at the People's Park

Shayla and Lydia hanging out at the People's Park

People's Park

Pucker up!

Nanning is known as the "Green City"

People's Park

Getting ready to head out to People's Park

Baba feeding precious Lydia