Ava's first day with us

Ava was pretty good yesterday. When we got her there were no tears at all. She went to both of us easily. When we went home on the bus she fell asleep. We had to wake her for her VISA photo and a family pic for our file. She still did not cry. We went down to have dinner and she sat on my lap the whole time. She ate a big bowl of congee (basically watery rice) and was quite good for most of the dinner. Every once in a while she would have a couple of whines and seemed to play a bit strange with Mike.

We took her up stairs after dinner and she started to cry and cry. Not really hard but crying and stopping off and on. We then realized she was quite wet so we changed her. She was OK for a few minutes and then she was crying again calling for her Mama (foster mom). In her update it said she did not wear diapers at her foster home and she was pulling at her diaper trying to get it off so we stripped her and let her go nude for a bit. She was sitting on my lap and I was rubbing her back. She peed and said Boo (don't know what that means but I am going to ask our guide). I guess I am officially a Mom now eh?

We gave her a bit of a sponge bath because she has a layer of dirt on her but she wasn't to crazy about that yet. We will try the real thing today. We put a diaper on her and I just sat with her on my lap and rubbed her back and arms. She cuddled right in staring at Mike and fell asleep. I put her down in her crib and she woke up of course. Mike picked her up and she cuddled in as he rubbed her back. She went down about 8:30pm and it is now almost 4am and not a peep.

She is sleeping in our bed for now. Hopefully the crib will be more appealing tonight but at her foster-home she slept with the adults.

Yesterday we signed a form saying we would take care of her and not abuse her over the next day and a half because she was not ours yet.

Today we go to the civil affairs office to make it official. We have two appointments today. One with the director of the orphanage to hand over the donation and ask questions the other is to go to a notary to make things legal. After that we will go to the Walmart Superstore. We will take pictures of that.

More to come...