Claire's a real cutie

What can I say other than God is good. We are blessed beyond belief. Claire is such a cutie and appears to be very healthy. She has cried very, very little, except for the present moment in which she is showing us she does have a good set of lungs. She just said momma quite clearly. She is so much fun and has the cutest little laugh. Her almond eyes are so beautiful and her skin complexion is very pretty.

The Gotcha Day was a totally amazing experience. We were walking to the building to get our babies and we're waiting for the elevator when several nannies with babies arrive. Of course all the mommies start shouting and crying and we're directed to proceed onto the elevators. We get to the 14th floor and there are about 10 babies in a room. We look through the window and I recognize Claire. There she is the active one. She's rolling around, sucking on her thumb and drool is rolling out of her mouth and of course she is rolling around in her spit. She does love her thumb, I think she would be totally content with her thumb and nothing else (toys). I stood over by the window watching Claire and they called our name, Mary Ann was standing at the door tears running down her eyes and I'm still at the window and sure enough the nanny comes over and picks up the baby I had picked out as being Claire and takes her and places her in Mary Ann's arms. So I run over give a little hug and then remember I'm supposed to be videoing the whole event so I yank out the video camera and do what daddy's supposed to do. It was great. Claire loves tummy time and prefers that to being in a stroller or constricted. All the babies in our group have been great and all appear to be healthy. Her hair is still sticking straight up even after tons of mousse.

Today we went to the Chongqing Zoo and saw the Pandas and even the Red Pandas which they tell us that this is the only zoo in the world with Red Pandas. Afterward we went to Wal-Mart. It was similar to the Wal-Marts back home, but difficult to find what your looking for due to the language barrier. Most of the people in the hotels and other areas where there are a lot of tourist speak English, but otherwise it is a little tricky.

Yesterday we were presented with a 24k gold plate from her province which will great for her to have when she gets older. We also did fingerprints yesterday too. Off course we had to pull Claire's thumb out of her mouth to get the fingerprint, then she just slams her whole hand on the ink pad and then smears her whole hand print on the document rather than just her thumb. We were trying to wipe the ink off of her hand as she was trying to stick her thumb back into her mouth.

We can't wait for everyone to meet and see Claire.
Love,
Jason