We Are Here!!!

These pics are at the airport in Hong Kong. The couple you don't know is Shane & Laura from Ohio that will be in our group while we are here... They are alos adopting a baby girl. She is 19 mths old. Pray for them and their baby girl too! we are finally here!!! OMG... that was the longest flight ever! A big shout-out to one of my BFFs (Christy) or shall I say her big sis (Pam) for the FYI on Bonine... This is the first time I have EVER flown and not gotten sick! Praise God! I got a little nausea on the first two small flights but on the long one to Hong Kong I was good! Bailee did not want to take one but I made him and I am so glad I did! He got a little sick about 30 minutes from HK but made it good the rest of the time. Rodney did great! He slept most of the time. Paps did good to but by the time we got to HK he was pretty stiff... His knees were pretty tight. We were so happy to see the Hotel and beds!!! Rodney & I both had only slept about 2 hrs the night before we left and Bailee & Paps about 4 hrs. so we were all prety tired. The plane was not very full so we got to have an extra seat between us on the flight and that helped some. But my tailbone does not want to see a plane seat anytime soon so if I can find a teaching job in China ya'll might have to come see me here (lol) They may have to knock me out to drag me back to a plane to get home.
***Ok... local culture ... They call the elevators LIFTS here and they rush them like the day after Thanksgiving sale at Macy's! So, when we were waiting nicely to get on the lift at the hotel a huge crowd of locals rushed the door and we all crowded in. As we rose to the next floor already packed in, the doors opened and another huge group got on and then all of a sudden we here BEEP BEEP BEEP very LOUDLY! This meant the weight limit had been met. I was thinking some little CHINA man is fixing to get a croc in the butt cause after 23 hrs of flying I am not staying on a stuck elevator!!! A few exited and the buzzer stopped... And I thought hurry up to the 13th floor and let me off of this thing.
***Another funny... I wish someone would let my hubby in on the secret that chinese is not spanish. He keeps saying see to all the chinamen for yes. Bailee and I are laughing out loud every time he talks to them.
***Rodney & Paps want someone stateside to find Aug 12th and send it back to us or our bodies anyway cause we feeling it bad! Somehow we lost that day and my back knows it! lol
Today we are on our own to goof off and relax! Tomorrow (Sat here) we have a 6 hour intense tour of HK. I hope I can keep up b/c I am lagging behind most of the time.
I will post our itinerary for you all in another post to follow. Thank you all for the prayers... They are mighty powerful and working. We are safe, excited, and having a good time. The miracle of me not getting sick for the first time ever is proof enough that your prayers are working! Rodney is THRILLED and still a little shocked! Please remember to pray for Sophie... Our prayer is for her to have peace with the transition to our family, for her to be as healthy as we think she is, and for her to not have trouble attaching or with post traumatic adoption syndrome PTAS. God is good so I know that He can answer these. I mean just look here we are in CHINA the country my baby girl was born into. How awesome is that!!! 3 more days until we get to hold our baby for the first time and our lives will be forever blessed even more!
Blessings,
Tammy in CHINA :-)

P.S. All our suitcases made it without getting lost... even my baby's modeling wardrobe... Yes all 42 thousand outfits and hairbows!!! Look out baby girl your head will never be the same or neck might I say Bet? :-)
P.S.S. We are able to see your comments and guestbook posts. Thank you Nessa, Christy, and Angela...Keep them coming!!!

Sophie's Bathroom . . .

Every girl needs a prissy bathroom in their Princess Palace, right!

Nursery Pictures . . .

Ok, this is how mean I can be :-)
I have waited to put these pics on here so that my BFFs would come see Sophie's room in PERSON and not just look at them on the blog... But most of you have come by so I know you are all tired of waiting on me to post the Princess Palace !

Enjoy... we love it and think it is so awesome! Can you say PINK-a-licious???

Shower Pics . . .

To say I had a great shower is an understatement! Sophie got sooooooo many cute things. She is going to be a fashion diva :-)
I am so thankful to have such great friends who love my baby girl. You all have blown me away with your generosity. Thank you again!
P.S. This is a small collection of the pics from the day :-)

Love ya,
Tammy

First Sophie Shower Today ! ! !

Well, today is a day I have so looked forward to for a while now! My very first shower for Miss Sophie and my very first "girly-girl" shower EVER!!! As much as I have looked forward to having a daughter, this shower helps bring the reality home! I am giddy with excitement and anticipation as I imagine all the PINK and cute girl stuff that will be before me today.

To my SISTAS who are hosting this shower...

(Angela, April, Christy, Elizabeth, Kali, Kelly, Micki, Ramie, & Traci)

I can never thank you enough for all you have done to get this together and to help prepare the way for our precious Sophie! BUT, more than the shower thank you for holding my hand through the past four years of waiting, for lifting me up when I have been down and for crying with me when I just needed to cry! I cannot put into words how much each of you mean to me or how very much I love you! I am just so thankful to God for loving me enough to surround me with warriors for BFFs and sisters! I love you girls!

To my sweet Sophie...

Baby girl this shower today is an example of how good our God is! He knows that in our lives as women and girls that we will need the friendship, companionship, and connections that can only come from other women and He blesses us with just the right ones that He has specially chosen to be a part of our lives! Embrace them, share with them, and give back to them as they have given to you so that your life will always be full even when your heart doesn't think it can take one more thing. We are blessed that mommy has so many people to love her and that love you so much already. You don't know how much fun we are going to have with these chics! They ROCK!

P.S. To all of you readers that are leaving us comments in the guestbook and on our posts, we love you and them! They are so encouraging... Thank You --- We Love You!

Surprise Update!!!

Look what was emailed to us today!!! An updated picture of our girl. She is growing like crazy and seems so happy! Thank you Jesus!!! I pray for her happiness, health, and care everyday and am so thrilled that God loves me so much that He confirms my prayers with beautiful answers such as this!
The update says that Sophie is walking and running around all over the place, that she is babbling, that she loves to dance, and that she likes to wave and clap. As of last week she weighs 20 lbs, is 29 1/2 inches tall, and has 5 teeth. She has 3.9 inch feet (just like her mommy- big feet). Her health status says "HEALTHY"! Praise God! Isn't this awesome.
SOOOOO, we are only waiting on Travel Approval from China and then we can get our tickets and go get her. Please pray for a quick travel approval and that we get to leave for China very soon. I am ready to get my girl and hold her in my arms!!! She may forget how to walk because I will not want to put her down :-)

Thanks for the prayers and support! We love you all!
Tammy

P.S. We love you Sophie and can't wait to have you in our arms!

P.S.S. Can you believe the beautiful hair she has... God knows about the zillions of hairbows we have to go on that precious little head! Look out Sophie mommy is coming with lots of bows!!!! :-)