The NELLY has landed !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SO here she is ....this morning was spent wandering around the island - we bought a stroller and some juice, then bided our time until we had to leave for the Adoption Office. We left here at 2 10 - see pic of two nervous people sitting on the sofa trying to look cool. We were shown into a board room with another family from the UK
and told they would bring the children soon and we needed to have our papers ready

We were first...in came a bundle of gorgeousness in a little pink fleecy suit with an orange anorak! Luckily we had bought her an orange stroller earlier today.

She spent the first few hours bawling her eyes out, but once we worked out what her feed should be she seemed fine (albeit temporarily) Rob has spent a lot of time playing with her & she is very alert (in particular she loves it when Rob puts a plastic cup on her head so that it falls off & mimics the action of putting it n her own head almost perfectly)

Getting her to sleep seems to be the first challenge- we managed one session of about half an hour but I think she doesn't want to unless she finds out that she wakes and we have left her...so I think it may be a long night. We have ordered some room service! whether we will eat it is another question but at least she is happy to go to both of us so we get a chance to tidy up - My God you should see the room looks like a bomb has hit it!...I managed to take a few pics without her dummy but she is fairly reliant on it and I don't want to upset the apple cart too much! she is quite a fan of cheerios already too as these soothed her on the journey back to the hotel. She is fiercely independent and wanted to take the cheerios herself and eat them, same with the dummy it drops from her mouth and she is straight after it !

the pictures show me with her nanny from the orphanage and after we had gien her gifts and made the dontaion she left as it is a six hour journey back - that is when the crying started.!

more tomorrow - or maybe later ! we have to be at the Adoption office again tomorrow for more paperwork ...! fortunately there is one TV channel that shows films back to back so now there is star wars...sure there are some good things later