Meeting our Girl....

To our surprise we met E today! She is just awesome. We arrived to the Hannah's Hope gates, and when they opened there she was sitting on a little bench sunbathing with the babies. I instantly teared up a bit, what a sweet sight she was. I held myself together and walked inside. She didn't want a thing to do with us, ha. It was a reassuring thing to me, though. She has healthy stranger-danger.

I handed her a doll then she smiled real big and snatched that thing out of my hands! She is a cute and sassy little one, ha! Her and Oliver will be quite the pair!

After a half our or so she let me walk around with her holding her hand. She would point where to go, and stop and love on her baby. She insisted on caring every toy we gave her too. She might be the size of an 18 month but acts like a 2 1/2, or barely 3 year old. The big kids came over and tried to check out E's new stuff, and that's when she asked me to pick her up. You better believe I loved that and didn't put her down for a long time! We snuggled, she let me kiss on her to. I love her.



She also let Nate walk around with her too. The special mothers were telling E that we are her mama and daddy. She flipped through the album we brought her, and watched a little video of Oliver on our phone. She seemed very interested in him.

We finished up some paperwork with Tsigie, one of the Hannah's Hope staff. She was a very sweet woman. After our paperwork, E wandered into the baby home (we had been playing outside). We then found her sound asleep with all the other babies, with her new doll and backpack right next to her. Absolutely adorable.

While E rested we spend the rest of the time with the big kids. They took my heart! One of the older girls (around 6 years old) kept hugging me and saying, "mama?" and then point to Nate and said, "Papa?" I had to say I was E's mama, but this older girl melted me. I think she has been matched with a family, so that makes me happy.

The older kids loved taking videos of themselves on our phones and jump-roping. We loved every minute at Hannah's Hope.