In Guangzhou China! Jailyn's first airplane ride.....

We started our morning early with Jailyn up at 6:30am and got an early jump on our day with nap time and feeding times accomodated to travel to the airport at noon. Jailyn was great on the 40 minute trip to the airport and we have her Chinese passport to travel now. She was great waiting in the airport and on the plane. We made sure we had mum mum treats for her to munch on while we took off to protect her ears. It was past nap time (2pm) at 3:30pm when we left Nanchang and she ate mum mums until 3:45pm and fell asleep on my lap for the rest of the flight. She was a trooper and a little angel on the plane no crying just as good as ever with us. We had two aisle seats which worked out great for us. Got to Guangshou at 4:45pm and was happy to see the sun for the first time since we arrived in China. The climate here is very hot like Cancun. Super humid and very tropical. We met our guide Emma who is very efficient at the airport and arrived at the hotel about 6:30pm. Jailyn was once again well mannered and we were able to feed her a bottle on the way to the hotel. Guangzhou is a big city and not crazy like Nanchang where we feared for our lives everytime we got in a van or taxi. We are staying at Shamian Island which is a resort village on the Pearl River. We are staying in the Victory Annex Hotel which is very close to many things like Starbucks, 711 store and lots of shopping and places to eat. We are looking forward to venturing out and seeing the sights tomorrow. We had the best meal at a place called Lucy's. I was in heaven and got a big ole iced tea with lemon and the best cheeseburger and fries. Mike had a Chinese noodle dish and Jailyn shared that with Daddy. Today the trip was exhausting and we managed diaper changes in the airports and Jailyn just cooperating. Our baby girl amazes us everyday with something new she does and is so receptive to learning (we have us a teachable, trainable and coachable baby girl - sounds like a future Mary Kay beauty consultant). She just needed love and a mom and dad to help her learn new things. She is a busy little girl. We believe she will walk and not crawl as being on her belly is not something she likes at all. However she can stand and take steps being supported.

Guangzhou is full of families from all over the world who are adopting and clearing the logistics with their countries to bring their adopted kids home from China. We have met so many people adopting just like us. See daddy and Jailyn waiting for the plane and an exhausted daddy on the couch, one of his favorite places, who carried our many pieces of luggage through the airport in the heat and humidity in and outside of the airport. Their air conditioning is nothing like ours and it is just sticky and muggy. My husband is an amazing man and I love seeing him be a daddy to our baby girl. He has been and still is an amazing dad to Katie and Scott and now again to Jailyn. I love him more and more everyday as we spend this special time in China bonding with our baby. He has a big heart with so much love and helped me realize my dream of being a mom and him a Dad again at such a different time in his life. Jailyn and I are so lucky and feel so special and loved.

Until tomorrow....we are so happy that we are at the half way point of our journey and can't wait to finalize the adoption with the US consulate.
From Guangzhou with much love,