Gotcha Day and After

Boy, has it been an incredible, emotional, and exhausting couple of days! Five out of the six of us are crashed. Gotcha Day was just amazing. I don't even have words to express the emotions that we experienced. It was absolutely overwhelming from the anticipation that we experienced as we waited for the babies to arrive, to the moment that we saw the babies come in, to finally holding our daughter in our arms. Wow!! Absolutely amazing!

The kids were so excited, and it was awesome to have experienced such a precious time together as a family. K was completely overtaken with emotion. I've never seen him like that. He was absolutely overwhelmed with the incredible love that he felt as Megan physically entered our family. B was very happy but a little bit overwhelmed at times. J was grinning from ear to ear the entire time. All three of them hovered around Megan and watched her sleep for an hour or so after we got her.

Of course, Dh and I were both a complete mess. It was miraculous as we took our new daughter into our family. She is perfect and beautiful, and we are completely in love with her. What a precious gift from God she is!

Megan wasn't quite as thrilled with the gotcha day experience as the rest us. I saw two groups get their babies, and out of both, our baby fought the hardest not to go. I don't mean she just cried the hardest and loudest(although I'm pretty sure she did)--I mean she physically fought. I could barely pry her away from her nanny, and only succeeded after several tries. She did seem to understand who we were and what we were doing--she just seemed to be protesting the whole idea. She soon cried herself to sleep on my shoulder, but woke up in the hotel room a little more accepting of the kids and me. She then attached herself to me and would go into complete hysterics if I wasn't holding her very securely. She went absolutely nuts when they tried to take her passport photo, and once again, she stood out in the crowd. She was the only baby that they could not get a photo of because she was fighting so hard to get away. Finally, after many tries, they snapped one. I hope it worked!

She has since gotten very comfortable with the kids and me, and is getting better with Dh. She will kind of warm up to him, but when he leaves and comes back, he has to start all over. She's playful and silly and has a cute personality. She also seems very intelligent and has quite a strong will. I don't really understand that because I'm pretty sure I ordered a gentle and quiet spirit this time :-)

We all went to Wal-Mart earlier, and it was complete chaos. The crowds were unbelievable. Megan had fallen asleep in the baby carrier before we got there and didn't wake up until we had shopped a little while. When she awoke in the midst of all that chaos, she looked up at me, then at her dad and finally her siblings. And then she gave us all a very satisfied looking smile.

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