Getting ready

We are here safe and sound in Guangzhou china. We arrived at the garden hotel around 10:00 Sunday night. Our hotel is beautiful and our room is great. Emma made herself right at home taking a bath and laying with playdough   Our guide is John and he is so nice. We are lucky enough to be traveling with a family from New York who we connected with though fb. Their daughter is the same age as Ella and is also from the same provenience. We work up this morning around 5:30. We went to breakfast and met with a couple other families. Our guide Took us around town to show us some restaurants and the super market. We are now back at the room waiting to get Ella at 2:00.

We are leaving on a jet plane.

Tomorrow we leave to go to China to pick up our little peanut. So much has happened in these past two months since we were matched with Ella Mei. We were matched on the re-release on Thursday we submitted our LOI on Sunday and received our LOA on Wednesday. Wednesday was July 17 which was also Ella Mei birthday. So with much gusto from mom I got her paperwork ready and we waited for all our approvals. We need a travel approval by September 6 to be able to travel before the closures in China due to their holidays. Every day I contacted my agency asking is there anyway we can get travel approval quicker. After receiving our update we found out that our little peanut Wasn't doing too good she has not grown since her nine month update. So we needed to get to China ASAP.
We all are praying once our little peanut gets some tendor loving care she will thrive! So we will have gotcha day sept 17 at 2:00.

Updated pictures