Monday May 2nd we started our day at our adoption agencies offices. Ella was so incredibly excited to go pick up her sister but was impressively good about quietly playing her leapster while we were briefed for our embassy appointment the next day.
Here she is taking some pictures of the goats below, yep that's trash around them, yum
Then we got to go get our girl!
I had really looked forward to dressing her for the first time, to be able to remove her orphanage clothes and put on new ones, her clothes, to begin her new life. During our court visit I found out that her favorite color was red so I brought a red dress, it's still her favorite outfit.
We gave Mekdes gifts to bring around to the nannies and she was able to say her goodbyes to them and to her friends. Her best friend is a girl whom she has been with since entering the orphanage a year ago. I'm so grateful that her friends mother found me through a family we traveled with on our court trip. Her friend will live in the carolinas but we plan to have the girls skype when they are ready.
In the van we gave her a little back pack, she was so excited to have her very own water bottle.
Once back at the guesthouse Greg gave Mekdes the cross necklace he'd bought for her. She kept playing with his necklace during our court visit, so as soon as we found out we'd passed court and she was really going to be ours he went out and got her one of her own to match his.
Tue was Embassy day
Greg ran out last minute the night before we left to get Mekdes her own leapster, it was a good move.
our family in legos
two silly girls in a tickle fight
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