It's Official

Juliana is officially a member of our family. She was a looong time ago, but it is nice to have the signed document.

Yesterday we went to the Chongqing Adoption Registration Office. It is conveniently located next door to our hotel.
After taking a family picture, we signed some documents, took an oath and sealed it with our fingerprints. Juliana was then declared officially adopted.

We now wait for her Chinese passport which will be ready on Friday. Then we fly to Guangzhou to start the process of making her an American citizen.

She is already a rock star! Every time we are out and about we get all kinds of strange looks. Thankfully our guide made a name tag for us explaining in Chinese we are here adopting. After reading this, we always get the thumbs up.

We went as a group for a celebratory dinner at the seafood restaurant downstairs. I have a few food posts about food in the works. It is too busy now to do them justice! I will say I was quite proud of the fact that at dinner I was holding a baby and eating with chopsticks at the same time. It was quite a feat.

It was of course one of those rare moments when Juliana was not grabbing everything in sight. She is so curious about all the new things she is seeing.