We got her!

Our Grace is "home" now! Our receiving her could not have gone better--she was happy and came to us right away. All the other children were screaming, but Grace was as happy as could be--one parent there voted her "happiest child". We found out that she lived at an excellent orphanage--her nannies gave us gifts (beautiful tea set and tea), pictures of Grace at the orphanage, the things that we sent her, and books and a DVD about the orphanage. We could tell that her nannies loved her. The incredible thing is she went to Pre-school there and had a "foreign" teacher and she seems to understand a little English! She is saying some words like Mama and Baba (that's daddy in Chinese) and we have recognized a few more. I feel confident in my diagnosis of Apraxia instead of Aphasia and that we will have her talking also.

We've had her 5 hours now and she still is as happy as can be. She ate pizza; we walked around the hotel and showed her the fish in the pond and the swimming pools--all the while she laughed and played. She played in the bathtub and now she is laying in the bed playing with her doll. We are waiting for the crying to begin because we figure it has to happen eventually--we'll see how the night goes! Thanks to all who have been praying about this wonderful day with us!