"Meeting Maili"

So I'm sure some of you have been wondering where in the heck the Taylor family has been and why are they not keeping up to date on their  blog?  Well, if you read the last post you'll know why.  It has been a crazy couple of days!  We jumped off the train in Zhengzhou at approximately 12:25pm on Monday.  And when I say jumped I mean jumped......2 adults, 2 kids, 5 suitcases, 4 carry ons, and 2 bags of souvenirs we had purchased all jumped off that train in record time.  George had warned us that there was not a lot of time between stops so we would need to be quick.  So off we went.  Cindy, our local rep in Zhengzhou, was waiting right there as we got off the train and whisked us through the crowds of people to a van.  I can't even begin to describe the amount of people, cars, mopeds, taxis, buses, bicyclists, etc that were on the roads.  Absolutely crazy!!!! And no such thing as following traffic signals.  People just drive wherever whenever.  Keith was able to catch a lot of it on video and it is truly unreal!  So as we got in the van, Cindy told us that we were headed to the hotel and that Maili was there waiting for us!  This was not at all like we had imagined.  No time to unwind, get settled in to our hotel room, nothing!  We rushed to our room and within 10 minutes she was at our door.  Unfortunately, we don't have any pictures of her right when they handed her off to us as we really wanted to just savor the moment and not overwhelm her with all the paparrazi photo taking.  She was absolutely beautiful!  She did fine until the nannies handed her off to us and then the tears began.  She cried a very quiet cry as we held her and tried to console her and within about 10 minutes she fell right asleep in my arms. When she awoke 2 hours later she had 4 smiling strangers staring at her :)  At first, she took it all in with wide eyes and then we got her to smile.  And she hasn't turned back since!  She has the sweetest personality.  So quiet and soft spoken with just the cutest little smile.  She lights up the whole room.  We are all so in love with her and so far she is doing well with all of us.  Today, we traveled with the group to the registration office to make the adoption official.  Welcome to the family......Maili Grace Taylor