Qingdao

We are settled in our room in Qingdao now. I am SO sorry- I forgot the camera cord to post pictures! We are only spending one night here and because we have SO many bags that are huge we left them at our hotel in Jinan and only brought necessities in our backpacks. Well, Kelly is an official member of our family, like it or not! Most of our adoption paperwork was completed today- tomorrow we do a few more things- the kids spent way too much time in smoky, cold, civil affairs buildings today- Fun! I think that tomorrow will be a neat day- we will eat lunch at the orphanage and Kelly's foster family will be there. I was able to talk to the orphanage director today and we were able to talk back and forth with Kelly which was really nice. She told me that Kelly is scared she may say something wrong. We were thinking that- it is almost as though she is afraid to do anything, say anything, or even take anything as her own. We assured her that we want her to talk to us and we want to talk to her. Since then, she has said a few things on her own- it gives me the feeling that she maybe knows more English than I thought but is afraid to use it. We will be back in Jinan tomorrow evening and I will catch up on pictures then.