Guangzhou, HERE WE COME 12/18/09

Our flight to Guangzhou on Friday Evening was delayed and sooooo crowded. This was the first flight that the babies had to endure, and a precursor to what lie ahead for the long, VERY LONG flight home. The baby's were awesome. Outside of a few minor squalls and one projectile vomit, (not mine :), we were home free.

The weather in Guangzhou, the weather that we were so looking forward to, the warm sunny weather, turns out to be cold, so, we are suffering, (NOT), in the range of 60-ish degrees, and definitely sunny.

Our first day here is the most critical one, as it's our Medical appt...... we're all somewhat on edge, as we don't want any glitches in our itinerary. Here we are, waiting to be called. The baby's will have their temps taken, feet and body measured, and ears, nose and throat looked at, along with weight, and skull measurements. Turns out, Baylon weighs quite a bit less than we were originally told, at 6 months of age. That weight was taken with layers, upon layers of clothers..... turns out, our little Buddha baby, is quite a string bean under all those layers. One tough, very tough, solid little girl.
Waiting, waiting, waiting !!! Turns out this trip is one very big, HURRY UP AND WEIGHT routine. If you've got that down, you can do anything here.
All of the members of our group certainly get along very well together. There's been a lot of internal support, sharing of supplies, and as you can see laughter.
Here we are.... waiting for our turn. Just a tad bit on edge. Praying that there isn't suddenly a temperature, or some unforeseen something, that will prevent us from getting on that plane.

I believe that it would have to be a major something, as China certainly does want our little girls to go home. We've become their legal parents, and they absolutely want them out.

Here's one glitch to the new Hague families....... inoculations are mandatory before entering the U.S. , yeah, that's right....... thank your U.S. Gov't. for enacting that one. It seems in our group, 7 out of 8 of the families, were still under the old guidelines, and technically for those in the know, the I-600 families. For that one family whose paperwork, (I-600) expired, they had to renew under the new rules, mandating them an I-800 family, and now, the new rules that the U.S. has instituted, requires that this family give their daughter several inoculations. That's right, a difference in paperwork made one unfortunate baby a pin cushion and recipient of China's versions of inoculations, whereas, the other 7 baby's can go home, and deal with getting vaccinated on U.S. soil, by U.S. Doctor's. Great going for our home team...... this absolutely sucked for this family, and again, this poor baby. THIS LAW NEEDS TO BE CHANGED, contact your Congressman.
More "hurry up and weight".
This was Baylon just before her turn. Wouldn't ya know, she goes in, and when one of the Doctor's tried to check her eyes, she kicks him square in the crotch...... needless to say, I had to restrain her, that is after the Doc was able to regain his composure. So happy my girl can take care of herself. She'll do just fine in her new role as a New Yorker !