Good fortune to you & her. 
You’re right, it was a bad choice of words. I do that a lot. 
Aww, Max! Your OP is really messing with my pregnancy hormones and my oldest is looking at me like I’m a crazy person for crying all over my phone.
Congratulations to you!
So how soon do you go to China?
Traveling normally happens about 10-14 weeks after the match, so we’re figuring around the beginning of October. There’s a lot more paperwork to file right now, after which we get our appointment with the US Consulate in Guangzhou for our final adoption/becoming a citizen ceremony and stuff. They sort of build your travel itinerary around that appointment.
Very happy to read this today. Thanks for sharing that with us.
Any update, Max? Is that baby home yet?
StG
I’m knew hear but wanted to say congratulations!! Hope to hear a wonderful update soon.
I have a houseful of terrific kids (6 to be exact) and some of mine were adopted. Adoption is a beautiful way to grow a family.
Update:
We have been there and back again, and we have our new kiddo. I’ll just give y’all the highlights to keep it brief and fill in the blanks later.
We left for China on October 2nd and arrived in Beijing on 10/4. If I ever fly internationally again, I’m going with an American airline; the only decent thing on the Chinese airline was the food, everything else about the flight sucked. But, we made it, and we toured around for a couple of days, making it to the Temple of Heaven, the Great Wall, and the Forbidden City. Then, we departed for Jiangxi Province, city of Nanchang, where we would meet our daughter.
Gotcha Day was October 8th, and she was the first baby into the room. She walked in with her nanny behind, and she was just so, so very tiny. At 21 months, she only weighed 17 pounds. We knew from the preliminary information they’d sent us that she was pretty introverted, but for those first few days, she was just a limp noodle, no crying, no interacting with us at all. She’s definitely opened up to us now, but I’m getting ahead of myself. Since she was the first in, we didn’t get to see anyone else’s “gotchas”, which was kind of a bummer. And little did we know we had a long day ahead of us.
See, with the national holiday just having ended (October 1-7), and government offices reopened for the first time in a week, we rushed to get the paperwork done. I had no idea we’d be completing the adoption the same day as the Gotcha, but we loaded up into a van with the other families and babies and zipped around to four different offices for certification, photos, notaries, and I can’t even remember what all. Finally we made it back to the hotel and pretty much collapsed with some Western take-out food.
Over the rest of the trip she started interacting with us more and more. She did great on all the flights, first from Nanchang to Guangzhou and a week later to the US. And now we’re here, with our days and nights flipped, learning all over again what it’s like to raise a 21-month-old.
Mazel Tov on your new family!
Need more! How’s her older sister doing with the new sister?
StG
Jeez, that made me tear up just imagining the scene at the orphanage. Congratulations on your newest daughter!
Such wonderful news!
Yay! I’m crawling all over with goosebumps!
Yes, how is big sister?
YAY FOR YOUR NEW FAMILY! !!!
I love reading this !!!
Great to hear! 
Did Torqueling come with you to China?
PICS!!!
Me too!
Absolutely, you must post pics for us!
Goosebumps and funny pricklies behind my eyes, I am so happy for you all!
Congratulations to you all!