Kaden Update 8/15

We got Kaden yesterday around 3:30pm China time. He was a bit shy & scared at first, which is what we expected. Once we were able to bring him up to our room, he slowly warmed up and within a few hours was a typical 5 year old - playing & running around. He was really wired last night and stayed up until about 11:45pm at which point I had to hold him & rock back and forth in a chair until he finally relaxed enough to fall asleep. He slept until about 5am which is about the time Steve & I were waking up anyways.

We got ready, ate breakfast, and met our guide, Helen. She took us to the civil affairs office & the notary's office to finish signing papers for the Chinese side of the adoption. The 2 caretakers from the orphanage that brought Kaden to us were also at the civil affairs office. He was happy to see them, but did not try to go to them at all - he just held my hand and sat with me. Our guide has an assistant named Phoebe who was at the notary's office when we arrived today. She helped us out a lot yesterday when Kaden was having a hard time adjusting. When he saw her at the office today, he called for her and went running to give her a big hug. It's really sweet to see how loving he is!

We are hanging out at the hotel for a bit before heading out to the beautiful lake park near our hotel. It is extremely hot & humid here- even worse than Tennessee. So you can't really be outside for too long before it's hard to breathe & you start sweating like crazy.

We're going to a place called Panda World tomorrow and possibly to an indoor playground. On Wednesday we will take the bullet train to Kaden's orphanage for a tour. On Thursday we'll be visiting some Buddist Temples in the area. We'll also be squeezing in some shopping over the next 3 days. On Friday afternoon the police will bring Kaden's passport and we will then head to the airport to travel to Guangzhou to finalize the rest of the adoption.

We'll update when we can through email & our blog. We cannot use facebook in China so any updates you see on there are from my friend Stacy.

Off to cuddle our newest little treasure!


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Location:Tongpan Rd,Fuzhou,China