Our Welcome Home!

It was so nice landing in DFW. Actually the flight from San Francisco to here seemed like a breeze. Both kids slept and I sat there in a stupor thinking about how life will never be the same.

We arrived the baggage claim to the welcome signs of the Brent, Corrie, Lily and Ethan Kern who were so kind to come pick us all up in two cars. We had to put a claim on a bag that we lost somewhere around Hong Kong. But the good news is that it was located and it is in transit. They say they're going to deliver it to our home thankfully.

Emily seems to be right at home and very comfortable with her new surroundings.

Maria is putting her to bed right now and it's been pretty consistent since we've had her of her putting up a fight of going to bed. We let her cry it out and she's usually gone within minutes.

There's a great deal of adjustment for this little girl and us, for that matter.

In regards to Emily being a citizen, we were told that she becomes one at the moment we had the immigration officer stamp her passport. We got a guy that doesn't seem to do it very often and he was very nervous. In fact, he did some stamps, a few signatures and said go on through, I'll finish this all up later.

I still have a few pics I want to post regarding the location that Emily was originally found. However, there on the other PC and I'll have to do that later.

It's been fun sharing our trip with everyone via this blog and I hope you've been able to get a good taste and experience of what we went through. It's certainly a trip to remember, in more ways than one. There will be a day that Emily will want to know every detail of this trip. And maybe, even yet, a trip of her own to Tianjin, China.

On the way home from the airport today, Brent Kern was asking something I was already thinking about regarding the blog. The fact that I seemed to be picking up some of the ways the Chinese speak English, always in the present tense.

Well, I knew that there were some serious typos and incoherent thoughts when posting some late nights and I was inclined to go back and correct them. However, thought later that if I did that it might take away from the essence of the moment. There's no doubt I've got a writer's problem of typing before I think and it's not unusual for me to put double words or different spelling of the same word, etc. Maybe some day I can go back to 6th grade grammar.

In the meantime, I'm going to go with it being late nights and preoccupation.