Wednesday, October 24, 2007
On this date, one year ago...
We were introduced to our daughter Rosa. Here is Jo Ann's journal entry from that day:
The waiting is over. We found our new daughter. Alex drove us to the orphanage. It is its own little village in the country. Tomorrow is a holiday here so the children at the orphanage were putting on a program. There are some really nice looking kids. The program was pretty elaborate with fancy costumes. When it was over we saw Rosa. We walked with her to the director's office. He interviewed us. Then we got to visit with Rosa. We showed her our photo album. She seemed to be really interested in it.
She is a very cute little girl. She reminds me a lot of Megan. She has blonde hair and blue eyes and a very pretty smile. She was a little shy. I guess she was told before our arrival that today was going to be a special day for her. Rosa said that she guessed what that meant. When asked if she wanted us to visit her everyday she said "yes." So we will visit with her again at 11:00 A.M.
It felt right. We immediately liked her. She drew us a picture while we were talking with the director. It says "To the Americans From Rosa." We hung the picture up in our hotel room. We are so happy. We feel like a weight has been lifted. We are excited to get to know her.
Here is one of the first pictures we took of Rosa:
And here is a picture of her today:
Rosa has been home a little over 10 months now. She continues to do very well in school. She's very excited about her first Halloween.
We were introduced to our daughter Rosa. Here is Jo Ann's journal entry from that day:
The waiting is over. We found our new daughter. Alex drove us to the orphanage. It is its own little village in the country. Tomorrow is a holiday here so the children at the orphanage were putting on a program. There are some really nice looking kids. The program was pretty elaborate with fancy costumes. When it was over we saw Rosa. We walked with her to the director's office. He interviewed us. Then we got to visit with Rosa. We showed her our photo album. She seemed to be really interested in it.
She is a very cute little girl. She reminds me a lot of Megan. She has blonde hair and blue eyes and a very pretty smile. She was a little shy. I guess she was told before our arrival that today was going to be a special day for her. Rosa said that she guessed what that meant. When asked if she wanted us to visit her everyday she said "yes." So we will visit with her again at 11:00 A.M.
It felt right. We immediately liked her. She drew us a picture while we were talking with the director. It says "To the Americans From Rosa." We hung the picture up in our hotel room. We are so happy. We feel like a weight has been lifted. We are excited to get to know her.
Here is one of the first pictures we took of Rosa:
And here is a picture of her today:
Rosa has been home a little over 10 months now. She continues to do very well in school. She's very excited about her first Halloween.
# posted by Buck and Jo Ann @ 6:49 AM 
