Home Sweet Home

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We are finally home from our long journey to China, home with our son. Man that feels good to say. We arrived home on Friday evening to our family complete with signs and balloons. It was awesome to see them. I couldn’t hug my kids tight enough. They looked like they had grown a mile.
Thanks to Mom and Dad Werschky and Mom and Dad Wescott for taking care of the kids for 16 days and Jeff and Stacie and Kent and Victoria for weekend slumber parties. Thanks to everyone who helped out while we were gone, it definitely made our trip enjoyable.
We are slowly starting to adjust to the time difference. We (Scott, Mason and I) didn’t sleep well last night but are feeling better today and hoping for a better night tonight. Mason already adores the kids. He is already giving them kisses. They crawl around on the floor with him and he cracks up. It is so good to see him so happy. He isn’t completely sure about the dog up close but is very interested from afar. If Jesse is outside, Mason wants to be at the window watching her. The kids are being huge helpers! They want to hold his bottle, feed him, help dress him, be in the bathtub with him, pick him up, etc……very cute….I am sure the novelty will wear off in a few days 🙂 Paige is squeakin’ all over the house in her squeaky sandals and won’t take them off and Alice is LOVING her Chinese dress.

These are a couple of pics that we took from our hotel in Guangzhou.

Now I am off to bed….
Jennifer

Our Last Day in Guangzhou

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Today is our last day here. We are really excited to see the kids and introduce them to Mason. It is a bit emotional (there I go again) thinking about Mason leaving his homeland and the only place he has ever known but we do know that he is coming home to a house full of love. Here’s to a peaceful transition for him. He has had so many already! We arrive home on Friday afternoon in Colorado Springs. I can’t wait to sleep in my bed! The White Swan beds give “firm” a new meaning. Please keep us in your prayers while we are traveling. We have found that Mason enjoys his meals and naps on time, which doesn’t always work well on an airplane.

Sorry, no pictures today, my camera battery is dead.

See you all very soon!

Off to finish some last minute shopping. I love this kind of shopping here. I go in and pick out all the stuff I want. Scott goes in and barters (spelling) down the price and pays. Good thing this is my last day here or we might have to buy another suitcase!

Jennifer, Scott and Mason

Red Couch Pictures and French Fries

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Today we did some shopping and stayed close to the hotel. Sam, Alice and Paige~wait until you see your new Chinese jammies! After naps, we headed downstairs for the red couch pictures. It is a tradition for adoptive babies and families to have their picture taken on the red couches at the White Swan hotel. Mason did okay but he was really more interested in the bird cages nearby.

Mason has been eating really well. Tonight at dinner he ate almost all of my french fries. He loved them!

Have a great day.

Jennifer

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Sorry that I didn’t post yesterday. All the kids in our travel group were in a funk and the mamas and babas were wiped by the end of the day. Yesterday in the morning, Scott had to finish some paperwork for the US Consulate, so I took Mason to the playroom for about an hour. He enjoys walking, holding my fingers, constantly. The playroom at the White Swan is really nice and perfect for little people. Mason also enjoys the fish ponds all around the lobby. These coy fish are so big, they could probably swallow him up!

Today we went on a tour of a Buddhist temple and then shopping. Mason did pretty well but was getting tired and very mad by the end. He finally fell asleep just as were boarding the bus to come back to the hotel. We had a quick lunch (Subway) and then headed to the Medical Exam. None of us enjoyed that part of our day, especially Mason. He doesn’t like to take his clothes off so it was very traumatic for him. If we put his coat on him in the morning, we can plan to leave it on him until bedtime. Getting pj’s on has not been a pleasant experience yet 🙂 Scott refers to it as poltergeist. The boys have headed out to drop off our laundry and borrow a stroller from a local shop. All the shops around the hotel invite you to borrow a stroller while you are here. I have been carrying Mason in the sling and that has worked well but today we tried one out and he sat in it for a while without fussing. Saves my back a bit and that way I can take MORE pictures 🙂

I think we will order pizza tonight and have a picnic with our travel companions. Dinner in=happy mommy. Eating out is fun but not for every meal, although I am going to miss the all you can eat breakfast buffet.


I hope you all had a great weekend. We are finishing out our Monday here. Love to you all!

Jennifer, Scott and Mason

Hello Guangzhou

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We have finally arrived in Guangzhou and we are feeling refreshed. It was wonderful to see the province where Mason was from but we were really starting to feel a bit of cabin fever. We were sort of stuck in the room because the weather wasn’t great for walking and sightseeing. Our hotel in Guangzhou sits on Shamian Island and it is really beautiful. We met the rest of our travel group tonight for dinner and we actually ate OUTSIDE! It was a gorgeous night and we enjoyed ourselves 🙂

Mason seems to be doing better everyday. We are definitely seeing his personality and wow! can he throw a temper. Right now he pretty much swings from happy to mad without a lot in between. He has figured out what the camera does and likes to ham it up whenever I pick it up. Here are some cute pictures from dinner. He was really interested in the leaves and flower petals all over the ground.

Have a great weekend!

Love,

Jennifer

Friday in Xinxiang

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Today we made the trip north to Mason’s orphanage, the place where he spent 19 months of his life. The orphanage directors welcomed us with hot tea and clementines. They gave us a bit of info about the orphanage. There are over 100 children living in the Xinxiang SWI ranging in age from newborn to 18 years old. We met some of the children in the special needs part of the orphanage. Scott had fun passing out mini m n’ m’s to the older children. We also got to see where Mason slept and spent much of his time. Gracie’s Room is the room right next to where Mason slept. This room is sponsored by CCAI (our agency) and funded through donations. (Check it out here http://www.xinxiangkids.org/index.html). In this room, some of children get extra time with nannies, more help with development, time out of their cribs. We are blessed that Mason was one of those children who spent time in Gracie’s Room. We also got to meet Mason’s best friend while at the orphanage. We fell in love with him instantly and are so excited that his forever family will come and adopt him next month. It was so hard to see the children still waiting to be adopted. They are all sooo sweet and just want to be loved.


Mason’s crib

After visiting, the orphanage directors took us out to lunch. We ate at a delicious restaurant and tasted many of the popular dishes of Xinxiang.


Much love to you all! Tomorrow morning we fly to Guangzhou and will remain there for the rest of our trip. We are really looking forward to getting home and kissing our other three babies!

Love,

Scott, Jennifer and Mason

Mason

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Hello all,

Yesterday, Mason had a better day. We got a few smiles out of him and some very happy laughs. We knew he had it in him, how could he not with silly parents like us 🙂 I know you are here for the pictures so here goes….

After breakfast, we took a taxi ride to the Lotus Center, which can only be described as Walmart on steroids. The taxi ride was its own experience. Hard to believe there are not more accidents. Lanes on the road only seem to be suggestions (not taken) and the sidewalk is an appropriate place to pass. Pedestrians do not have the right of way anywhere, even of the sidewalk 🙂 Anyway, we bought him this truck and a ball and he really enjoyed that. We enjoyed getting out of the room for a bit too!

Have a great day, we are missing you all!

Jennifer, Scott and Mason

Officially a Wescott

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Today we adopted Mason~officially! It was an emotional moment, add it to the rest 🙂 Happy emotional, but emotional, nonetheless. I know, I know, me? Emotional?

I wanted to post really quickly while the little man is sleeping. He hasn’t been feeling good, running a low fever and very congested, since his gotcha. He has slept most of the day on and off and seems to be rounding the corner on this bug he has. We are still trying to coax a smile out of him. I got a bit of a laugh yesterday when we were alone playing while Scott ran out to finish up some paperwork. He definitely wants me to hold him most of the time. He kind of clings to me mostly. He will go to Scott but not without a bit of a fuss. I am sure that will change in time.
Even though we have really only seen his serious side, I am sure that little by little he will emerge. Check out the pictures….even his sad face is precious and kissable.
Scott gave him a bath this morning and we put fresh clothes on him. He definitely does not like to be naked. He really enjoyed his bath (hard to tell from pics) and was very helpful once I started putting clothes on him. He put his feet up for me to put pants on and shoved his arms into the shirt as quickly as possible.


These were the clothes that Mason was wearing on Gotcha Day. Bundled. Our guide tells us that children should have on 3 thick layers in the winter. The green outfit is quilted and very thick.

This afternoon we are staying in but we may take a taxi to a shopping center tomorrow for a change of scenery. Probably depends on how Mason is feeling.
Sam, Alice and Paigie~Mommy and Daddy miss you sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much and can’t wait to give you big loves. I love seeing your precious faces on Skype. We will call soon.
XOXOXOXOXOXO

Mason Joseph Sheng Wescott

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We have him!!!!!! We arrived at the adoption registration office this morning at 10 and he arrived soon after us. Actually, we were signing papers when the orphanage director brought him in. We didn’t even have the camera out and ready. Thanks to our travel companions Judy and Drew for taping and snapping tons of pictures. Mason is in total bewilderment of his surroundings including Scott and I. We fed him some noodles for lunch and a bottle of milk and now he is sleeping.

Thank you so much to everyone for all your thoughts and prayers and notes of encouragement. They have meant so much to us!

Love,

Scott and Jennifer

In Zhengzhou

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We arrived this afternoon to Zhengzhou, Henan. Henan is the province where Mason’s orphanage is located. Zhengzhou is the provincial capital of Henan. It is a bit warmer here than Beijing.

Mason will be brought here tomorrow morning and we will meet him at 10 am. We will walk across the street to the registration office with the other couple in our group and meet our children there. I am feeling every emotion possible right now! It is amazing after waiting soooo long, this is FINALLY happening! And I thought that Sam, Alice and Paige were overdue 🙂 Check back tomorrow for pictures of our precious baby boy!

Much love to you all,

Jennifer and Scott
I am not sure if I mentioned in an earlier post but while in Beijing we visited a jade and cloisonne factory. They were both really interesting. Scott commented that they probably weren’t up to OSHA standards 🙂