Gotcha!

It's been a couple of VERY busy days in Zhengzhou.  We flew into Zhengzhou on Sunday and spent the day unpacking, making sure we had enough $$$ for the next two days and shopping for baby supplies.  On Monday morning we woke up....and it was THE DAY! We met our group in the lobby of the hotel at 9:30 and drove 20 minutes to the local Civil Affairs office where we (and the other 9 families in our group) would meet their babies.  When we got to the office, two or three babies were there, but not Shawn.  We watched the glass doors for about 20 minutes; we kept expecting to see him.  I happen to look around the room at one point and realized HE WAS THERE! The Orphanage Director and Nanny brought him through a different door so he completely surprised us.  I immediately yelled, "Brian! Bella!" and took off running toward him.  It was not easy on him.  We had been forewarned that he was afraid of "foreigners" and would cry when they would visit his foster home.  Uh-oh.  He came to us, but within a few minutes was in tears.  We started to give him cheerios and that subdued him, but when his nanny and orphanage director came to tell him "bye-bye", the tears started....and did not stop until we were on the bus and he fell asleep.  Did I mention Bella was in tears too?  Not of happiness though.  Poor thing fell over a railing during our Gotcha Moment and fell HARD! I was busy consoling her and Brian was busy consoling Shawn.  I'm pretty sure no one in the group would have changed places with us.  Here's a few pics from the day:

Brian and Shawn...Brian held him first

 Then it was my turn...this was before the rail incident (notice the cup of Cheerios)

 Keeping it real here folks! Our first family photo as a family of four...Brian and I are the only two smiling...the other two are in tears.

In the bus on the way back to the hotel...

This little girl was ready to get out of the loud and crazy Civil Affairs office!

Playing soon after we got back to the hotel.  I tried to take his coat off and the waterworks started again.....

Poor baby cried himself to sleep and was none to happy to see us when he woke up.

However, "Apple" is the Universal language.  With a little help (ok, a lot of help) from our iPhones and iPad, Shawn calmed down.  We are pretty certain he was calling his foster home in this pic....

Oh my goodness, look who is smiling!

And this is the moment he melted my heart.....