This the famous red couch at the White Swan Hotel, where all the babies get their pictures taken.


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At the White Swan Hotel, where the majority of adoptive familes stay.

Waiting for my physical. I'm sure this will be loads of fun.

Outside the health center in Guangzhou.

Sitting on dad, this makes me happy!

Jailin gave dad a break and let mom finally hold her, although she's not too thrilled.

If Ba Ba would let me practice, I'll be ready for the Bejing Olympics!

Swimming with mom, does this mean I don't need a bath later?

Showing off my swimsuit!

Jailin teaching us Mandarin

She chose the Chinese for Dummies version for her Mom and Dad. Smart girl!!

Loving Guangzhou...and Jailin!

We are loving Guangzhou and are getting sad that our time is coming to an end. I want to stay longer. China is a facinating place and I can't wait to come here again.

Things with Jailin are GREAT! She has now adjusted to me as well, thank goodness! It just took her 7 days. We have figured out her schedule and she is very happy now. She is eating like a pig!!! She sleeps a lot, too. She's still very serious, but smiles a lot. She doesn't babble too much, yet. She's very curious and watches everything. She eats everything, but still needs pretty smooth textures.

She's gone swimming at the pool, which is gorgeous! There's a picture of her on the bed. It's when we 1st got into the room,
which is very luxurious and she went right for the bed and was so happy. It's my favorite pic!! She did great on her first plane ride. She fell asleep right before takeoff and slept throughout.

She really is amazing! Can't wait for everyone to meet her!

Jailin Smiling...

We are so in love with this girl! She melts our hearts and
the smiles are coming more and more. John and her are
in love and she is absolutely a "daddy's girl" at this point!
She will soon be a "mommy" and "grandma" girl too!

We are loving our time in Changsha and will be almost sad
to leave and head to the Westin. Changsha will always be
special as this is where we first met our daughter and is
close to where she was born. We have been able to
explore Changsha a little bit and are looking forward to
sharing this journey with Jailin.

Here is our hotel...


The love of her (and his!) life...





Her beautiful smile...





Dinner out with our guide! Out first dinner out with Jailin!

Check out this grin...

Jailin is doing great! She is such a tiny peanut...only about
15 pounds! We will need to do some more shopping for
some smaller clothes ;)

She has the coolest teeth! We are getting more and
more smiles from this little lady! She is getting comfortable
with us a little bit more each day and is a delight to get
to know!

Can't wait for you all to meet her!

More of our sweet girl...

Loving every minute of it...

I love my mommy!


Mom thinks this counts as her shower too ;)


Daddy love...

We are a family of 3 + Guinness!!!

Jailin is here with us!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We are now officially a together family of 3!

She is so beautiful and we are in love!
She is teething so we will work on that
and just spend today getting to know
one another!
Will post some more pictures soon!

Here she is!!!!

One Day Away!

We spent the day in LA on Friday, swimming,
eating IN-N-OUT (yea baby) and relaxing.

The flight over from LA was awesome! Very easy!
I love business class!!!!

We departed Friday night from LAX and 15 hours later ,
arrived in Guangzhou.
We had a 3 hour layover and took a one
hour flight to Changsha. What a breeze!

Now, we are settling in the hotel in Changsha.
The hotel is very nice, but the people are even nicer.

I can't believe we're here! It was a long travel day.
We are feeling the jet lag but we are doing great.
It actually is nice that we have this day to settle in and
when I wake up, we'll be going to get her!

We just heard from our guide...
We will see Jailin for the first time at 8:30am tomorrow
in the hotel lobby.

We are so excited!!!

We're here in L.A!!!

We made it to L.A after 2 delays, you have to love O'Hare! I will post some pictures when we arrive in China. John is very excited because we are off to In N Out! He's been talking about it for months! We met up with Sindy and Kelly and we are enjoying our short time here. Next stop, Changsha and Jailin!!!!