She is now officially ours.

Olivia Hui is now officially ours ..... or maybe the real state of things is that we are officially hers.

We started the day with breakfast in the hotel. As we walked into the room we though.... my gosh....what does she eat for breakfast? There was a wide variety of foods available from traditional Chinese breakfast items to "British Style Potatoes." We saw that there were some steamed buns with vegetable filling... we started with that. She picked up her chopsticks and off she went. From there we tried watermelon, bacon (she liked this a lot), a bit of egg white from a hard-boiled egg, bits and pieces of a lot of different things. Orange juice was a hit. Barb and I had some eggs cooked to order, big hunks of toast (Hui liked this too) some bacon... etc. We just are not quite brave enough to try the traditional Chinese breakfast which is really interesting looking but very alien to our realm of experience. Maybe tomorrow.

After breakfast we went back to the room to brush our teeth. This was a question we had before arriving. "How would we find Hui's teeth?" All is good. We loaded up the brush and off she went brushing without any hesitation at all. It is obvious that she has done this before. We are pleased to report that her teeth look quite healthy.

Off to the Province Adoption office for the final signing of documents and paying of the notary fees. It was accomplished within an hour or so. It was obvious that both Chan (our local "guide" whom we suspect is actually much more than that) and Lina were doing a bunch of behind the scenes work. The Head Official asked us a few questions such as did we understand her heart issue and how were we prepared to handle it...could we pronounce her name? How old was she? Papers were signed and stamped with the official seals. The completed documents will be ready by tomorrow and her passport by Friday afternoon.

We got back to the hotel about 10:30 AM and decided to head over to the city square to feed the birds. Video soon. Then we went to a huge multiple level store to purchase Hui a couple pairs of pants, as we GUESSED WRONG and all the pants we brought are two sizes too large. So, we are trying on a couple of pair and then asked her which she liked. She said "I like them both." A born shopper, obviously. As we were walking through the store she made a comment.... I asked Lina what it was that she said and Lina said she said "Pretty dress." Observant. A large supermarket was located in the basement of the building where we bought a bunch of water, bananas, some meat sticks, juice boxes and potato chips (for Emmo). Diet Coke for Barb, of course. Back to the hotel room for eating then a nap for all....

Olivia Hui is a very sweet girl and we think probably full of herself. There are little hints, coming more frequently, that she is NOT the quiet, shy little girl portrayed in her profile. THANK GOD. Right now she is hunkered down with the other girls in a slumber party. She keeps pressing her talking doll non-stop. She and Em seem to be connecting really well. They are already playing "sister" games. Really fun to watch.

We are meeting Lina at 5 for dinner back at the noodle restaurant. Lina seems to think that Hui will like that a lot. Very tasty and very traditional Chinese fare.

In the pics, Hui is making her official handprint in red ink on the adoption document. In the second, she is feeding the pigeons. Lots of laughter.

More later.