It's day 3 of our stay in Hangzhou. Today we visited the orphanage
where Hanna lived for the past week prior to our gotcha day. It was a
really nice facility, but not the one she was living in her first year
of life. They have since moved locations. I was impressed with what
I saw and most importantly with the care of the children. She was
loved by many of the workers, knowing her personality a bit now, its
no wonder why they cared for her so much. They all ran to greet her
once they saw here. Of course she wanted to stay in the play area.
What a dare devil. I have two of them now! They were so appreciative
of our care package that we sent earlier in the year full of clothes
and today we personally delivered a HUGE bag of additional supplies
and they truly seemed grateful for them. Thanks so all of you who
donated to this delivery (which included toothpaste, toothbrushes,
hand sanitizer, shoes, clothes and socks) and we told them that our
friends, family and our church family played a large part in donating
so much. They gave us a photo book of all her photos, including a
photo of the day she was delivered to the orphanage. I was in tears
at the time they took to put that together for us. It is so wonderful
to have more than 5 photos of her early years. They also gave us a
lovely book about Hangzhou that we can share with Hanna as she is
older. There was some language barrier, but I really believe they
were happy that Hanna had found a home and that they would miss her
terribly. She has attached to me quite quickly and warming up slowly
to Vince. I am sure it has to do with most the caregivers in the
orphanage are women, but I am just to truly overwhelmed with our
blessing. I am also happy to report we were able to Skype today with
Davis, and Hanna was beaming from ear to ear excited to see Davis and
promptly imitated every silly face he made. We are settling in quite
nicely and looking forward to Friday, and heading to Guangzhou.
