We have Sweet Caroline!!!! First, we are having some computer issues....emails are not going through or coming through and having some difficulty loading pics...so please be patient.
O, now the stuff you have been waiting for..................... she is with us!!! We went to the orphanage Wednesday at about 2:45pm to get her. Well, I will say that is was without a doubt the hardest day of my life. Caroline was very unsure of us and screamed and cried and would just nod her head "no" for anything we tried to do for/to her. We sat in the floor at the bottom of the stairs and tried to get her more comfortable with us. Her nanny sat with us and fed her..she absolutely would not let me or Charles feed her. She sobbed and so did mommy. She did let me put my arm around her and just pat her. the nanny finally went away after being down in the floor with us for about 20 minutes.Caroline whimpered a bit. Another nanny was yelling at us from the top of the stairs as she got a milk box for us to give her. She let me give her the milk box. Thuy was in and out and told us that she would have the car come around and we would just load her up and go. Caroline was sitting in my lap at this time, so at that moment I stood up and she cried and open her arms to come to me, then the car pulled around andI just had to scoop her up and get into the car. Mind you I am in a skirt for all of this. She is screaming, crying. i felt like I was kidnapping her. She was sitting on my lap and I just kissed on her and hugged her and repeated over and over to her that we loved her and prayed to Jesus to touch her little heart and soothe her. well, she finally calmed down.Thuy brought the book for Charles to sign to us in the floor at the bottom of the stairs. We missed the official 'gotcha' day hoopla. we never went back into the director's office , no photo with him. but it is all going to be ok. About 1 block from the hotel thuy told us we had to stop at a photo shop and take a full face pic of Caroline. It was good, Caroline kept a death grip around me , sat in my lap and 1 photo done. then we went to the hotel..all good.
When we got back to the hotel she never cried or whimpered. She was just soaking it all in. I gave her a bath...all good. We brought a toddler toilet seat to put on top of the commode she goes potty when I put her on it. If there is something she does not want she adametly shakes her head 'no" which is to anything having to do with animals......stuffed animals, animals of clothes, small plastic animals. Oh boy, what in the world is she going to do when we get home to our zoo?
She does not like raisins either, shakes "no". Not too big on cheerios, but does hold them in her mouth. Speaking of, her cleft does not appear to be too bad. She opens her mouth wide for me and let me put my fingers in there to feel without any terror.
So much more guys, but we are going to be ok. We were laying in the bed with the books and babies and such and I got up to do something and turned to look at her, she was looking at me patting the bed for me to come back. Precious moment. I love her and God willing she will remember that moment not me snatching her our of the orphanage screaming and crying.
Please keep us in your prayers!! We will try to work out the computer problems and get some pics up.
Love & prayers,
Laura, Charles & Caroline
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