More Gotcha Day!

Our Gotcha Day was so sweet.  We were to meet on the 3rd floor of the hotel at 3:30pm.  I had the gifts prepared.  Danielle and I anxiously waited for 3:30.  It was the longest day ever.  But about 3:20 our phone rang and it was our guide and she said "your baby is here".  I was out the door immediately.  We got to the 3rd floor and could hear voices down the hall.  We headed that way.  Our guide Maggie was holding Aubree.  She was so frightened.  She handed her over to me and she just clung to me with her head buried into me.  She was holding on for dear life.  No tears or screaming.  She just held on.  She had her mama!  I had my girl after so very long of looking at pictures I was finally holding this precious treasure!  She eventually fell asleep while we did paperwork.  Then they wanted a family picture.  She did not want any part of pictures.  Flash cameras scare her terribly.  With very limited vision the flash is very scary to her.  We tried for a while but they said for us to get one in the room and email it to them so we left and went back to our room.  She very quickly warmed up to us.  We gave her the toy camera which she loved because it talked and had a light that didn't flash.  She also loved this little spinning light.  She puts this right up to her left eye and watches the light.  These two became her favorites.  She had no interest in the baby dolls.  We took her to dinner that night and she ate fried rice.  She loved it.  I was able to put her to bed in the crib this first night.  She just laid right down with no fussing at all and went right to sleep.  But in the middle of the night I woke up and she was just sitting up in the crib.   I picked her up and put her in bed with me.  She snuggled right up and went to sleep.  It was the perfect first day together.  God is so good!  She is so very precious!