Meeting our little girl!!!!!!!!!

She loved putting stickers on us!!
About to enter the gates at Hannah's Hope!




The view from our hotel room

The day we have dreamed about for so long finally arrived and it was more amazing than either one of us could have ever imagined. We pulled up to Hannah's Hope and luckily it was such a short drive over we didn't have a chance to be nervous. We handed the other family our camera and they opened the gates for us. We tentatively walked in and began looking for little K. Matt spotted her first with her hands over her eyes. we knew this was her because some other families had sent us pictures of her with her hands over her eyes and we were told she does this a lot. We went over to her and knelt down and began saying our hellos. I immediately started hugging her and telling her I loved her. She still had her hands over her eyes and the other kids were so cute as they helped pry her hands away from her face. She didn't smile at us at first and was very shy. Well, let me tell you that lasted about two minutes! After that she spent about an hour going back and forth between our laps. We brought a bag of goodies for her filled with books, a teddy bear, and stickers. She sat and read and reread the books with us (yeah! I have a reader!). She was amzing as she made connections in the books with her surroundings and even though she doesn't speak English we were easily able to communicate with her. She loved the stickers and had a blast putting them all over our faces. That is when she started giggling. Her nickname at Hannah's Hope is giggles and we can see why! After sitting with just her for about an hour we were also able to play with all of the other darling children and play ball with them, push them on the swings, color with them, and just be silly. Let

me tell you they love taking pictures! And I mean they want to be the photographer! Our K kept wanting to take pictures all afternoon. After about being there for 3 hours fatigue finally set in for me. I was literally falling asleep with a crayon in my hand. We didn't want to leave K, but it was time to go and we were beyond exhausted at this point. As we began our goodbyes to K, her demeanor began to change and her eyes went sad. Her bottom lip began to tremble and next she was crying and crying hard. This was almost too much to take, but it also left us feeling good knowing that she apparently liked us. We rode back to the hotel where we immediately collapsed onto our bed and allowed us to take a two hour nap. When we woke up we showered and then went downstairs and were able to visit with and have dinner with some other amazing families who are here adopting as well. We laughed because three of the families here this week are from Ohio!

I am so tired now and have no idea of any of this makes any sense, but what we experienced today was beyond our wildest dreams. Our little sweetie is the cutest, sweetest thing I could have ever imagined. We fell instantly in love with her. The funny things is we have been pronouncing her name wrong this whole time! More on that later. Off to sleep!!