This is our story....of love, life, and adoption

Sunday, November 19, 2006

We had our first date!

I forgot to tell you all that on Thursday I finally got to meet Lucia and Camille. Lucia was living in Japan when she and her family adopted Camille from Taiwan. Camille was staying in the same orphanage that we will be adopting from. They moved here several months ago, but this was the first time that we were able to coordinate our schedules to meet. It was so neat to finally meet her after months of "courting" on line. It's always weird and I was a little nervous to meet them. You wonder if you'll have anything to talk about, if the conversation will lag, or if it'll be just terribly awkward. It wasn't at all. When I first saw them I went right up to them and we hugged like old friends, like we'd known eachother for years. Lunch was awesome and the conversation didn't stop. The poor waiter...we camped out for a while. Lucia is so nice and sweet and Camille...just melt my heart. She is such a good baby, didn't cry or fuss once. Of course I didn't even think about it when she wanted some of my soup...I just fed her from MY spoon...oops...I didn't even think that Lucia might find this horrible, tacky, gross, or just unacceptable. Then I gave her chocolate(for the very first time) from my own...gasp...fingers. Thankfully Lucia didn't gasp and was so cool about it. And Camille...well she loves chocolate!! A true girl at heart. I can't wait to spend more time with them.

6 comments:

MOM said...

Hi Ann,

How wonderful that you had a "date" with Lucia and Camille! Sounds like so much fun!

I was sorry to read down in your blog and hear about Jon's accident. I am glad he will be OK. How scary.

So 8 months down--that means you are on the downhill side! (as long as they don't keep changing the numbers on us. . .)

God Bless, Debbie

C's Mom said...

Woohoo...isn't it great to meet 'those internet people'?

Anonymous said...

That's wonderful Ann. Glad that things went so wonderfully for all of you. I am SURE that you left that lil girl feeling like she was #1, as she is.

island jen said...

awww...so cool! it's always fun to meet online friends in real life..and yup, it does feel like a blind date! but the friendships you form are amazing!

Deb said...

Those are the moments we like to treasure forever.
UMMMmmm Chocolate don't we all love it!
*HUGABUGS

dawn said...

I've corrupted a few of my friends children in the chocolate department and all they said was just wait....ha ha. And they got even.
Sounds like a wonderful time.
You are going to be such a fabulous mummy.