We have her!

After a very anxious afternoon, we went to pick up Anna at about 3:30. She looked at us for about 30 seconds & then as soon as they said "mama & baba", she got hysterical. :-( It was a very intense few minutes with her screaming and reaching for any Chinese face she could. Luckily they knew better than to do anything other than tell her no.... She stopped crying on the way to the van and on the ride back to the hotel she just whimpered softly. It was so pitiful to see tears stream down her face with just whimpering (reminded me of our god-daughter Caroline) She did NOT want anything to do with Roger...she only wanted me to hold her. She was quite frozen ... Sorry, for the interuption we have a new writer - Roger. Hello everyone Anna just had to go poop reeeeeeal bad....I'm back.... :-) Anyway, she was upset, so I just held her in my lap and Natalie read a few books to her. She fell asleep in my arms, so I just let her nap that way for an hour. Shen she woke up, she checked out Roger (from afar) and Natalie. Then she joined her big sister on the floor and began playing with the puzzle we had sent months ago to her. We were SO elated to see her play. And Natalie was able to get her first smile. After about a half hour, we decided to give the hotel restaurant a try. Us girls walked hand in hand down the hall & it felt so good.

We met up with 3 other families there who had just received their toddler daughters today also. Anna (we call her ChangChang, pronounced ChongChong) ate fried rice like a champ, didn't touch the noodles and love watermelon and honeydew. She finally let Roger feed her watermelon and began laughing hysterically at Roger's antics. Whew!

Natalie is now up in a friends room playing while ChangChang and I type away. Baba just went and bought her a mickey mouse drum, so that is good for a minute or two.

I'm going to try to post pictures, but this computer does not seem to want to let me do it. I'll try again, if not, maybe I can use another computer.

Just know that she is adorable (complete with busted lip from playing earlier this week) and good news....she is NOT hair challenged like we thought.....her hair has just been cut for the summer, so it is short, but will grow out just fine.

P.S. She's sitting in Roger's lap....and just called "mama?" to me :-)

So now we are officially....."Muller, Party of FOUR"