It's [Really] Official!!!

This is our official adoption registration certificate. China says she belongs to us. We went yesterday to apply for her Chinese passport; this will take about 5 days. We need this done to get a visa for Autumn to come home with us. As soon as we get to the states she will be a US citizen, but until then she is a Chinese citizen with American parents. Today we go to have an immigration physical and that's it until we have the passport. The Chinese paperwork is complete, everything else is for the US.

Autumn continues to sleep well. She is laughing more and crying more(but no more than any one year old). We had a meltdown over hair bows, Autumn made it clear that she was not in favor of this and Mommy made it clear that it doesn't matter what she thinks. Both the laughing and the crying are good because she is opening up, the first day or two she was pretty flat emotionally.

She is eating consistently, but not nearly as much as she needs to. Eventually she'll get hungry enough and used to the American formula we're giving her. We've been encouraged to get her to transition because the nutrition is much better.