{"id":1350,"date":"2010-11-30T19:29:48","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T23:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.handsful.com\/?p=1350"},"modified":"2010-11-30T19:29:48","modified_gmt":"2010-11-30T23:29:48","slug":"nov-30-hes-ours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1350","title":{"rendered":"Nov. 30 – He’s Ours"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Our newest crew member, showing us his cool side :)<\/p>\n

We’ll soon be on our way downstairs to breakfast, before heading to visit Luoyang orphanage today. We have a list of children to find for waiting families and a huge duffle of baby clothes to donate…thanks to so many friends and family who contributed! <\/p>\n

I wanted to post a few pictures of yesterday and I’ll do the rest later. Dylan is officially ours, and we have the papers to prove it! That was our day yesterday, doing all the registration and notary paperwork. After it was all done, the registration official declared that all of our children were now ours – we all let out a collective shout of relief and excitement! Then, she presented each of us with our children’s adoption certificate. <\/p>\n

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Walking up the 6 flights of stairs to the notary office. No elevator. <\/p>\n

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Outside the notary office. The entire building is filled with smoke…smoking is allowed inside most all buildings in China, including our hotel. Most ALL Chinese men smoke. It’s hard to get used to. <\/p>\n

We’ll post more pics later – we had 2 shopping trips yesterday, one to the Lotus Center with the group and another trip to Wal-Mart last night with just us. Lots of great shots of Zhengzhou to come :) <\/p>\n

Dylan continues to do very well. He’s decided he doesn’t like his crib anymore…cries a very pitiful, scared cry when we put him in it. So, he’s been napping and sleeping with us at night now. Can’t wait to share more later. Prayers for our visit to the orphanage would be welcome…we just want Dylan to realize that we’re just visiting one last time and he’ll never have to go back there again. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our newest crew member, showing us his cool side :) We’ll soon be on our way downstairs to breakfast, before heading to visit Luoyang orphanage today. We have a list of children to find for waiting families and a huge duffle of baby clothes to donate…thanks to so many friends and family who contributed! I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china-travel-2010"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}