Samantha Pickup

We boarded the bus, You can tell Dianna is getting more emotional. The weeks and months of waiting are finally coming to an end. We are getting breakfast at the Buffet and I tell Dianna that this might be the last quite meal in a long time.

All the mothers in out group are getting excited, you can see the tears in some of their eyes. We get to the Chinese Adoption Agency, It is a older building, kind of what you would expect. We all board a elevator and go to the 3rd floor. We go into a room with wooden couches, and wait for out babies.

The first baby comes through and Rebecca recognizes the blanket. Dianna and I missed it. The babies walk through our room into another room and you can see all the moms on the edge of their seats in anticipation of getting their baby.

They call each family one at a time. The babies are crying as they are handed over to the moms. They call our name and Dianna gets up with tears in her eyes to walk over to get Samantha. Keith is taking videos and Stephen is taking the camera pictures. You can see from the pictures the amazement in Dianna’s face. It is like she just had a baby. I can only imagine what she was like the moment Rebecca was born.

Samantha cries as she is handed to us. Rebecca has the solution, she gives her some oyster type crackers and she immediately stops crying. It has been several hours and she has not cried since.

I do not know if I have ever seen so much joy in one room. Most of the parents have children so this is a wonderful addition, but it is especially exciting for the 2 families that do not have children.