Our Shower at Church

This is the group from our Sunday School class that hosted the shower. They did a wonderful job!

The boys had fun helping open all the presents while Nana helped write it all down.

Showers of Blessings!

We were blessed with 2 showers this past week. This is from the shower that Kirk's office gave us on Tuesday. We had a great time and received many wonderful gifts.

Lillie Mei's New Measurements

We got new measurements on Lillie Mei on Wednesday. She's very small but her head circumference is in the 5th percentile now which is better than it was before. She only weighs 18.7 pounds and is 26.8 inches tall. Based on clothing sizes she's between 9 and 12 months. She's not on the American growth charts at all but hopefully that will change when we get her some good food! She has 7 teeth so she will be able to eat! We can't wait to get our hands on her!

Our Final Travel Schedule

November 3 Arrive in Beijing stay at Wang Fu Jing Grand Hotel
November 4 Sightseeing the Forbidden City and the Summer Palace
November 5 Fly to Nanchang from Beijing
Meet Lillie Mei in the afternoon, stay at Sofitel Trilec Hotel
November 6 Registration and Notarization
November 7 Local sightseeing: visit Teng Wang Ge Pavilion, Shopping for baby
November 8 Local sightseeing: visit countryside
November 9 Local sightseeing: visit the Zoo
November 10 Get passport, Fly to Guangzhou from Nanchang
Stay at the White Swan Hotel
November 11 Local sightseeing: visit Family Chen’s Temple and Yuexiu Park
November 12 Physical test and Photo taking,
Local sightseeing: visit Six Banyan Temple
November 13 Visa application
Local sightseeing: visit the walking street
November 14 Getting the visa,
Local sightseeing: visit Liu Hua Lake Garden
November 15 Leave Guangzhou for HK; then fly home

November 2nd!!!

It's official! We leave on November 2nd. Our consulate appt. to get Lillie Mei's visa was confirmed yesterday. We are now in the process of booking our airline tickets and Cindy is in major list making mode. We don't have our set schedule but based on the normal schedule for our agency this is what our trip will look like.

Friday, Nov. 2- Leave -looks like from Greenville/Spartanburg
Sat, Nov. 3- arrive in Beijing at 5:30 pm
Sun, Nov. 4- sightsee- Great Wall, etc
Mon, Nov. 5- Fly to Nanchang, Jiangxi to get Lillie Mei!!!!
Tues, Nov. 6-Sun, Nov. 11- Stay in Nanchang, sightsee, get to know Lillie Mei, and SHOP
Mon, Nov. 12- Fly to Guangzhou
Tues, Nov. 13-Lillie Mei will get a physical and we will apply for her visa
Wed, Nov. 14- pick-up her visa
Thur, Nov. 15- depart from Hong Kong; arrive in Greenville @ 5:30 pm (it will feel like 5:30 am Friday to us)

We'll try to post more often as we learn more details about the trip.
Gotta go make more lists!