We got Sam today! This morning our guide Fion drove us down to Feng Yuan (which sounds like Fun-gyuen to my ears). We went to the local office of the adoption agency and met his foster mother Ms. Liu, who had him in her arms as we walked in. (By the way, "This is our God" was playing on the radio in the office when we came in...CCC people know this song by its chorus which keeps repeating "This is the one we have waited for...") We said hello and sat down and Ms. Liu put him in our arms. Annie and I were worried we would burst into tears and grab him from the arms the first moment we saw him! We didn't want to do freak him out (or Ms. Liu, for that matter) so we prepared ourselves for the moment. He is a BIG baby. Not really fat, but BIG... He has four teeth across the top, and none on the bottom. He likes to bite Mommy's kneecaps. He took to us really well. He smiled at us from the start and takes a bottle easily. (Though he'd probably take a bottle from anyone...Big eater, this one). The first video I will put up will be our meeting. Here are a few pictures of the trip and then pics of him in our hotel room. It's 10:15 PM here now and we're trying to get him down for the night. He just wants to roll around going "thbptbptbptbptbpt!!!!" and stick out his lower lip like Popeye. Thanks for everyone's prayers. We know they are working!
