It's Becoming Real!!

It's becoming real! I'm sitting here at Minneapolis/St. Paul Airport and Dan and I looked at each other and said, “At the end of this trip we are coming home with a BABY!” :-) We've been so busy with jobs, Danika, house etc. that all of this has been a blur and a little over five months ago we had no clue that God would place a little girl named Xiu Si Yue in our hearts and eventually our home. We are blessed! I'm sitting here with an iced latte, Dan with his sweet tea (watching the world cup, totally oblivious to the rest of the world :-) It's the first relaxing we have done in MONTHS and most likely the last relaxing we will do for months. In approximately an 45 minutes we will board the plane to Los Angeles and then on to Guangzhou, China and connecting to Beijing. We arrived to discover our plane is full and overbooked by 5 seats. The gate agent was harried and frazzled and he told us to prepare to not sit together but we would at least make it on the plane because we are connecting to China. When the time to get seats came he printed off our boarding passes and lo and behold we are sitting together. We would have been fine sitting apart for 4 hours of this journey but it is especially sweet to be able to share and enjoy the anticipation of Sienna together the entire way. Leaving Danika was actually easier than I had expected. Yes there were tears...Mama shed many thinking about leaving her baby. We are resting comfortably knowing that she is in the hands of those who love her dearly and would do anything for her. Who better to watch your baby than Grandparents! We know she will make many trips for ice cream and “out to eat snack” while we are gone. Our plane is boarding now so more from LAX or Beijing. Let the adventure begin!