Shhh - don't jinx anything

It's official: We're parents again.

Today, Zhu Fu Miao officially became our daughter.

And we ended our first full day together. I have to say, everything is going frighteningly well. Miao-Miao (pronounced "Myew Myew") so far has been the happiest baby I have ever met.
She has not cried at all. At all.

We had prepared ourselves for days of inconsolable tears, as was our experience with Bee. But so far, all we've gotten have been a few tears at a diaper changing and a few more when Mom is out of the room too long.

It has been crazy good, and I have been waiting post anything until the other shoe dropped so I could write all about the howling and sleeplessness and all the other things that unite adoptive parents in this experience.

She will go through it - there's no doubt about that. But so far, she is happy with us.

METCHA DAY

We met yesterday a little after 2:30 p.m. local time in the provincial government offices.

The offices are on an upper floor of a modern office building with marble floors and plate glass frontage. It was like Fifth Avenue, but much, much cleaner.

HSH, Bee, Smiley, Zee, our guide Lucy and I all went up to the fifth floor and into a conference room with a plaque near the doorway that read, "Meeting Room."

Lucy did a little rushing around and told us that we would be signing paperwork and then meeting Miao-Miao. Then she rushed around a little more and came back and said we would be meeting our baby first.

Seconds later the Zhuhai orphanage director and vice director were in the room with Miao-Miao, who was dressed in red and gold silks and pink shoes with a pink plastic bunny hair clip in her hair. She looked at us and opened her arms and went right to HSH, and I picked up Bee. Then she took the opportunity to come to me, so I handed off Bee to her HS Dad. And then Bee decided I needed to hold her, too. So I did.

All the while, Zee and Smiley were acting as our Ken Burnses, but with less fade-to action.

There were papers to sign and suddenly other babies were in the room meeting their families, and the Meeting Room got quite loud. One baby in particular was crying loudly, and I worried that Miao-Miao would be upset, but she just looked at the baby curiously, and looked at me and at Lucy and at the vice-director, and I guess we convinced her that everything was cool.

She was smiling and giving high fives all around and generally being as happy as can be.

The vice director of the orphanage brought in a large plastic bag and presented us with Miao-Miao's little pillow, one of her favorite toys, the blanket and toys and photo album we had sent to her, the disposable camera we had sent to her (which they shot), a separate small photo album/scrapbook with photos of Miao-Miao taken from the time she entered the orphanage through the end of November, and a fuzzy stuffed backpack that also held a handful of DumDum lollipops, which the vice director said is Miao-Miao's favorite candy.

They also gave us a touristy sort of photo CD about Zhuhai, along with two DVDs about Miao-Miao's daily life and her nannies and the orphanage.

I cried. The vice director also got teary-eyed, and got kisses on the cheek from Miao-Miao, and a photo with our whole family before she left.

I think the only one who didn't cry was Miao-Miao.

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