It's a girl!

We got the call about our new baby as we pulled out of a gas station on the way to Indianapolis, just moments after leaving her new grandmother's house. (Lucky baby has three grandmas: YiaYia, Grandma Mollyne and Granny Connie.
When the cell phone rang, much earlier than we expected, we were so flustered I forgot the list of questions I had tucked in my overloaded purse, so we don't know MeiMei's size, weight or name!
That's what you get for taking notes on a Kleenex box in a moving car.
Based on that original concersation, we thought MeiMei was from Guilin, but it's actually Yulin. She is in foster care, associated with one of the Yulin City orphanages. Because she is from JieJie's province, we'll get to go back to Nanning and perhaps visit both orphanages, Laibin and Yulin.

I'm not sure what else Heather from the adoption agency said in the first call. I know I told her i loved her several times.

I thought the whole process would be calmer the second time around, and that perhaps the grown-ups would be more prepared and less numb, especially after waiting nearly two years to be matched with this little baby girl, but I was wrong. Clutching the cellphone, I babbled on as the car cruised past the green walls of corn on either side in the August heat. Onward to Indy and a celebratory cocktail with very, very old friends.