We have survived our first day as parents!!!

Amazing, simply amazing that in one instant we became mom and dad two the two most precious little guys.

Out of our four families that are travelling together, we were the second family to have our children brought to us. We were waiting in the hallway as we were told they would be bringing the children to our guides room...which is right down the hall from ours. The families all worked out arrangements of who would take videos and pictures for whom. This worked out great as we all could focus on the children and not worry about "capturing the moment." I haven't even looked at the pic's yet! I will post some on in a moment.....be patient! ha ha!

We got totally choked up watching the first family meet their child. All the rest of the families were sobbing, but the parents did so great and gave a warm welcome to their little boy. We think watching that first moment helped us not to be emotional wrecks. The tears started brimming when we first saw our little guys being carried down the hall towards us, but the moment we held them it all seemed to click, and it was just a feeling of awe.

And they are so sweet. And funny, and cuddly,...and heavy when you are not used to lugging a child around!

We were pretty busy playing with them, while our representative tried to get the paperwork with the orphanage squared away.

We found out that our adoption of our little guys is the first one from this orphanage. As I have mentioned before they are the "new" orphanage for the city of Zhengzhou. I am not sure when exactly they opened, but I know it has been at least almost a year. So the orphanage workers were not really familiar with how everything was supposed to be done. And they even forgot some of the paperwork. But we didn't care as long as the brought the most important things: Zachary and Hunter!

The orphanage did a lot of nice things for us, like making an amazing book, bringing back a camera that we had sent, they also were going to give us all the clothes that we had sent back, but we told them to keep them. (Except I did ask for the sweatshirts since they might be useful in the AC and easier to take on and off than the sweaters we had brought with us.)