What a crazy 24 hours

What an amazing day! Josh and I are so excited and it has been so fun to share our great news with everyone. We know that everyone who loves us has waited just as long as we have to welcome this little girl into our lives. Thank you for celebrating with us.

Tomorrow we should be receiving translated documents and will know more about our daughter. We know that the orphanage she is in is located in Zhangshu City (pronounced drahn-shoo, I believe) and that Katelyn has been there since the day after she was born. When we travel we will stay in Nanchang, the capital city of the Jiangxi (pronounced Jee-an-she, I believe) province. It looks like Nanchang is about 2 hours north of Zhangshu where Katelyn is. The baby will be brought to us in Nanchang, but we hope we will get a chance to go down and visit her orphanage. Sometimes that's allowed and sometimes it isn't. From what we are learning, Zhangshu City is very rural and poor. It is a farming community mainly of rice fields. There is a yahoo group of families that are adopting from or have adopted from this same orphanage and I have joined that group. It seems like the babies are well cared for there. I don't believe that it's a very large orphanage.

Please pray with us that Katelyn's orphanage has what it needs right now. With the terrible snow storms in the southern part of China, some of the orphanages have been hit hard and it is hard to find the supplies that they need. Chinese New Year begins in a couple of days and that is not really helping. Our prayer is that Katelyn is warm and that her physical needs are being met. We are sure that the orphanage staff will do all that they can to care for the children. We are just anxious to bring her home.