Lucy Rachal is officially a Comer!

It is official – Lucy is a COMER!

We departed from the hotel at 2pm to drive to the Chongqing International Adoption Center.  It was another crazy ride in the bus.  As Heith describes it – “the lines are just a suggestion… the bigger vehicle always wins.”  I have never seen anything like this in my life.  People will just cut across 3 lanes of traffic not caring if anyone is coming their way or just change lanes because that is the one they want to be in.  I guess that is what you have to do when you are in a metropolitan area of 32 million.

When we arrived at the adoption center, we completed paperwork and had our official China adoption photo taken.  They then did an official ceremony which made Lucy a Comer.  I couldn’t help but cry when the official said “Bi Xiao Yuan is now legally your daughter”.  We have video of the event, but can’t get it to upload here.  I will post when we return.  The official from the agency was really nice.  They gave us a beautiful set of chopsticks to remember the day and will be creating us a photo book of the day.  It was so awesome!

So we are now officially finished with all the paperwork in China.  The other families are waiting on their children’s passports to be created, but we already have Lucy’s passport since she went to the US in March.

We then headed back to the hotel.  We decided to venture out to a local restaurant tonight and it was great!  I am making a list of all the things I want Heith to learn to make.  Some of the foods we have tried since we arrived I have never seen on a menu at American Chinese Restaurants.

Madison is even trying to learn how to use chopsticks!

We are back in the hotel now and all pretty tired.  I can’t help but add one more photo to this post because I want to share this with  you all.  Right now – Lucy and Madison are laying in the bed watching a movie.  It is like they have been together their entire life.  Now if we could just figure out what all she is saying to us….

Tomorrow will be the orphanage visit.  We will go to Lucy’s orphanage so we can see where she has been living since 2011 and meet her nanny (hopefully).  We aren’t really sure how Lucy will feel about going to the Orphanage.  We don’t want her to think she has to stay or be scared we will leave her there.  I am going to ask our guide to try and explain the purpose of our visit and give her control to pull the I don’t want to be here any more card.  Please pray that Lucy understands why we are at the orphanage.  We hope to take many pictures since this place is such a huge part of her life.

I will update after that visit tomorrow afternoon.

Good Night!