Gotcha Day! An Orphan No More~ **A couple of more pictures added...**

***I just realized that I didn't add 2 of the pictures that they sent...**

      I can't wait for more picture tomorrow!!!! :) 

Yummy Noodles 

Looking at Mow (Chinese for "Kitty Cat")

Finally!!! What we have all been waiting for!!

Here is what they have to say and of course some pictures of our girl: 

We have sweet little Qian Qian!! She is absolutely precious and we are in love with her!! She is very strong willed and a bit spoiled I think. When we first got back to the room she was VERY unsure and wanted to leave. She gathered up all the things we had given her and just stood by the door. After a while she had such a sad little cry. It just broke my heart. I got out the water and the cheerios and things got a lot better. :o) I also got the stacking cups out and she spent a long time moving her cheerios from cup to cup. Karl went to the store and he bought her some noodles. She was a hungry little chick! :o) After we got to feeding her she opened up more with us and started smiling and laughing. She even repeated the word "more". She also said "Mama" and "BaBa".  So sweet. She has the most precious little laugh!! She is still completey refusing to take off her coat. :o( I think she knows that if she takes off her coat that this means she'll have to stay with us. Please continue to pray for us as she is VERY stubborn. Hope you enjoy the pictures. We will try to take more. Going to bed tonight will be very interesting. sigh. We love you and covet your prayers!    

This is a poem that Katie wrote and I think is very appropriate for this day: 

  An Orphan No More

Written in love by Jie Jie Katie 

You are an orphan no more

Sweet child full of grace

with desperate pleas your 

mother cried that you would find a place

A place where you could grow

a place where you could sing

a place where you could dance the dance

that life continuously brings

With each step she took she faltered

with each loving glance she winced

no more to be her child

no more from that moment since

On that humble step she laid you

with such care I've never seen

a baby girl you were hers

clothes, food and a basket to keep clean

When she turned away were there 

tears she wept or simply a mothers prayer?

Did she linger hidden or did she run

in sorrow and in fear? 

Our hearts are open; our arms held wide

for you are now our own

God has placed you in our life

God has given you a home. 

For it's only by his grace and love

that we ever find our way 

Life's journey never seems to end

with each new passing day.

While your mother could only dream of the life God had planned for you

You sweet baby have made it home

all your dreams have now come true. 

Sorry...these are totally out of order...

Enjoying Noodles from Daddy: 

Stacking cup fun!

Oh, this makes me sad! Ready to go! 

Sitting on Mama's lap!

Gotcha, Karoline Mei Qian!!