Gotcha Day!

We have our babies in our arms! Here I am again at 4 am, my body is just not switching over to Taiwan time yet. I did get a full 5 hours rest though. The last 24 hours have been exciting and exhausting. We left our hotel in a taxi Friday morning going to a children's Government agency to be united with our kids. We arrived in my typical late fashion, 10 minutes past our appointment. They had just finished up with their going away party. We followed our social worker up to the party. In we walked and there was everybody. I saw Kai first and then Naveia whizzed past me. There were Kai's foster mother, father, a new little brother, Naveia's foster mother, and about 6 Government social workers. We first went into a toy room and sat on the floor. Naveia came right in and started showing us the gifts she had received from the party. Kai was checking us out but keeping his distance. We gave them their backpacks we had filled with a few toys and candy. That was our bait to lure them in. Naveia started going through it all and playing with everything. Kai was still held back and then finally we caught him with the toy airplane. We talked and asked questions with Naveia's fosterma first. She was very nice, energetic woman. She said Naveia is an easy child to care for. We got to take video and pictures our meetings. Naveia is so sweet, we had given her a purse with some play jewelry and she wanted to no if it was o.k. to send the ring with her fosterma to give to an older sister at their house. Of course I said yes and told her that was very nice of her. I was also able to share my adoption testimony with everyone there. I would tell some and then our social worker would translate to them all. I wanted them all to know that this was God's work at hand knitting our family together. Naveia showed her emotions when the foster mother was leaving and the three of us hugged and where all crying. And then she was fine and ready to go with us. She started packing her things up. We had to tell her we still needed to talk with Kai's family. Kai's fosterma and ba where very attentive and quiet. They have been doing this for 17 years so it is not the first time they had to say goodbye to a baby they had given their love to. That made me feel better. They said goodbye and Kai was kinda busy playing so he didn't pay much attention And THEN he realized they were gone and fell totally out. He cried so hard that it gave him a nose bleed. The meeting was three hours and very nice and a relaxed atmosphere. We got a whole entire suitcase of Kai's belongings plus 2 cans of formula and a whole package of diapers. Naveia also came with a lot of stuff. So we pack into one taxi the luggage, kids, us, and our social worker. Our social worker came in our hotel lobby and gave us some more official documents. And Jessie just so you know, I asked her and we do not have to pay the Visa fee. This was great news! Our afternoon was spent in our hotel room they would not take nap as we had planned they wanted to explore and play with everything. So after a few hours we realized a nap just wasn't going to happen. We took a outing around the hotel. This outing was interesting and we are now having second thoughts if we should even leave our room. First we went to a kids indoor play area they had fun but Naveia already got hurt. She jumped on a slide half way down it and it boomeranged her to the floor on her face. She is very active and and jumpy kid. Always trying to jump off the bed ect... Never had a kid like this one. So anyway she now has a red mark on her cheek to go with the bruise on the other cheek she came with. Do you get the picture, this kid is busy. Then we went outside, walk a little ways to the 7-11 and they each picked something. I should also add the kids don't want to walk they both want John to be holding them at the same time. Finally we walked to an open field to eat our snacks. We found out there that Naveia is a fast runner. She took off fast, laughing as I chase her in my dress and high sandals. Just picture it. It was not funny to me because there are roads on both sides of the field. After that John said it was time to go back to our room for the night. This is when Kai had his sad moment he cried for his fosterma we just comforted him and after an hour he fell asleep with John. Naviea and I spent time together. We took a bath, painted her nails and did her hair. For dinner we decided to ordered room service instead of going out. Finally we did a web chat with my parents, Zarra, and Zane. They could see us but we could not see them. Bedtime was late like 10:30 pm but Praise God they went to sleep without a fuss. They are all sleeping right now. Naveia got up once and told me she needed to pee(naio naio) and I just gave Kai his second bottle and right back to sleep he went. So that was it our first day with our little Asian angels.