travel day

Today was a travel day we made it to Guangzhou, tomorrow is finally baby day! We are really tired tonight I will post more tomorrow.

Day 1 & 2

I thought I was catching a great father son moment here turns out Chad was teasing him!
This is a picture from a man made lake at Summer Palace, this was created by the dragon lady outside the palace.
This is a beautiful Jade bracelet that we bought for the baby, Chad is showing how small it is.
This is my jade bracelet, the mother is supposed to wear it until the daughter gets married and then she passes it on to her. I thought this one was very unique and I like it so hopefully she will love it for its beauty and meaning as well.

Day 1 & 2 Pictures

The "exploding fish"
Pedi Cab ride, there was a "salesman" following us trying sell us stuff I just couldn't stop laughing and by the end of the ride he told me "you #1 wife" didn't take him long to figure out where I rank!
We climbed all these stairs to the Bell tower
This one is titled "The Crazy Man I Travel With"
This one is for Nichole, squatty potty. Yes I used it more then once too, I don't think my favorite shoes will ever be the same again. They all looked at me like I was nuts when I pulled the roll of toilet paper out of my bag.

Day 1 & 2 Pictures

The Bell Tower (sorry forgot to rotate)
Great Wall with snow!
The Gang
Off we go!
Almost there

I had a dream, help me out here!

I had a dream the other night and now I can't stop thinking about it. For the last 2 years our baby has been MiaBella Maeteace, in my dream we changed her name. I like her name but there are several girls with her name in every adoption group which I don't like. I want her to have an American name not one that might be associated with adoption in any way so she doesn't feel any different from the other kids. We also have friends with a baby named Maya and that is causing some confusion for our kids about which one we are talking about or they refer to her as Maya when they are meaning Mia so...Crazy as it sounds we are considering the change. What do you all think? email me at jessicahillard@msn.com and let me know your choice and what you think. I promise I won't be offended I really am looking for advise here. Here are the names we are considering. MiaBella Maeteace or Vivian Harlow, she would go by Harlow, Vivian is after my Grandmother. the other thing I like about this second choice is that Wyatt also goes by his middle name and he is the first born and besides him all the kids now have on at the end of their names. Not on purpose it just happened that way, if we went with this the first and last would go by their middle names and the middle ones would have the on in common. So what do you think?

On another note we had a good day we went to the Bell Tower and went and saw the Chinese acrobats today. It was really neat, we also rode a pedi cab and toured a local artists house. It's cold here now I am wishing I packed warmer. Hopefully I can upload pix but no promises!

Made It to Beijing

Wow we today has been interesting. I woke up wih the flu so Chad and Dennis went to the orientation. We has an amazing lunch with our guides and yes I actually ate the food. The flight was soooo long but we made it thru. I am now on the look out for my precious Starbucks, they say there are everywhere but apparently everywhere here is not like home. Chad was trying to speak spanish to the people by mistake it was so funny! We are off to tour more later! Love Jess

Waiting in S.F.

Jessica, Dad and I are anxiously waiting for the airlines to board us. This has been a easy morning so far, everything has gone well. I can only hope that the rest of the flight will be this good and of coarse they has called our row!! GOTTA GO!! We will stay in touch if possible.