Here's the pictures from the second part of our trip to China. We had a wonderful time bonding with Abe, our agency did a fabulous job with the paperwork involved, and we were blessed by traveling with some great families, but we were definitely ready to come home!! Hotel rooms get small with a toddler!
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| Visiting Steven Curtis Chapman's orphanage, Maria's Big House of Hope. |
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| His first visit to McDonald's |
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| Loving the french fries!! |
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| At the zoo in Guangzhou... just love the pandas with our panda! |
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| Watching the koi fish |
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| Like father, like son... |
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| Abe and Chris watching a man carve our name chop (a stamp with Morris in Chinese) |
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| Our travel group with all of our kiddos! Such a great group and now wonderful friends! |
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| Can't get enough of his sweet smile |
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| My new friends, Brittani and her daughter Louvee and Tiffani and her daughter Maylee. Such sweet girls who answered ALL of my many questions about being a mom! |
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| Our boy loves noodles! |
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| Love him! |
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| Getting ready for his first flight (to Guangzhou) |
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| Boarding the plane (he didn't like his hat). |
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| On a river cruise in Guangzhou |
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| The third tallest building in the world |
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| We found out that Abe LOVES balloons! |
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| Swimming with daddy... so happy he loves the water! |
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| Swinging |
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| And he loves his daddy's hat... |
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| On our way home... preparing for the 13-hour flight!! Should have brought a vacuum for all the Cheerios we left behind. We were driving the flight attendants crazy! |
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| We made it!! Yay!! |
We are finally home!! My parents, Chris' mom, and some wonderful friends greeted us at the airport. After a long trip and super long flight we were thrilled to be back in Monterey with our friends and family!
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| Our sweet friends, the Homans, greeting us at the airport. Their youngest son has been waiting for his new friend to come on a plane for 6 months. He was thrilled! |
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| My parents decorated our house for us when we arrived. Abe LOVED the balloons! |
The next day, my sweet friend Cara hosted a welcome home party for Abram. Our friends from church were able to finally meet the little guy they had been praying for all these months. It was such a wonderful day!
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| Grandparents with Abe at our welcome home party. They were in heaven! |
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| Granddaddy playing with Abe... trying to teach him how to jump! |
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| Such a sweet picture with Gram |
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| With my sweet friend, Cara, who hosted our party. It was wonderful! |
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| A curious toddler.. what is he thinking? |
And so now our life begins with a toddler... we can't believe we are parents to such a fun and amazing little boy! We are definitely blessed!! We want to thank all of you for your prayers while we were traveling, we definitely felt them all!
I just melt looking at these pictures. Abe is beyond precious. And looks like he is fitting into the Morris way of traveling already, having been to the third tallest building and all ;) blessings as y'all countinue y'all's journey as parents. Thanks so much for sharing your story with us!
ReplyDeleteLove all of these pictures! So incredibly happy for your family! Abe is the cutest!!! :)
ReplyDeleteSo happy for you, Stephanie!
ReplyDeleteI love the way y'all were able to capture so much with your camera. Happy Parenthood!! Looking forward to meeting Abram (sorry, we missed your party on Sunday!)
ReplyDeleteHe is adorable! Congratulations!
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