JULIA ROSE ARRIVES IN HALIFAX!!

Papa Don and Grandie met us at the Airport last night - midnight!! Thanks Elizabeth for looking after Lauren - what a great reception and Julia did us very proud - she is so happy to be here with us....enjoy the pics

MORE FROM BEIJING

JUST IN!! - A few more pics before the Pangman's head off to sleep - enjoy

THE PANGMAN'S IN BEIJING

Hi all - Great full day tour today of Beijing. Spent the morning touring the Summer Palace, then lunch and tour of the Pearl factory, then finally to the Bird's Nest and Tian an men Square. It was very hot and smoggy today - you can see in the pictures. Julia had her check up yesterday at the International SOS Clinic and was given a clean bill of health. We're enjoying our trip, but are excited to come home on Friday. Love Dave, Rosie and Julia

FROM WUHAN TO BEIJING

Papa Don apologizes for this late entry - we do have to look after Lauren you know!! Enjoy the updates - one more to come:

Hi all - We made it safely into Beijing very late Friday night. Julia is doing very well even with all the travel. We toured the Great Wall on Saturday. It was very hot and humid - about 38C, but I managed to hike up to one of the towers - a steep climb of about 300 steps. Here are some pictures.We have a free day today, so the girls went out shopping at the silk market. Julia and I are resting at the hotel.Miss you all.Dave, Rosie and Julia

MORE PICS FROM WUHAN

Julia is doing great. She slept through the night last night, is eating well (had some noodles and rice last night for dinner).

Chat soon.Dave, Rosie and Julia

JULIA ROSE ARRIVES - GOTCHA DAY!!

We met Julia for the first time yesterday. She is a gentle and happy little girl, who loves to be held. She is full of smiles and did not cry at all yesterday, even when she was handed over to us. She slept the whole night through in the hotel room last night. We are blessed to have such a happy and healthy little one.More pictures to follow...

DREAM GENTLE GIRL

Thanks to great friends of ours they were able to translate Julia's given name for us from the Chinese Characters. Her name translates to "Dream Gentle Girl". We pray her personality is a gentle as her name suggests! 2 more sleeps! Judi, Dave's mother is arriving today and Don is coming on Saturday. Lauren is starting to get a little sad. Her exact quote to us last night was. " I can't do this without you guys"- I said "Do What?" and what she explained was she just could not "be" without us loving her and giving her kisses good night. She made me tear up. She is very deep in her emotions and thinking.

The count down is on...

We are almost there... In 11 days we will be departing for China. We are getting excited. The latest we heard on Julia is that she is almost 17 lbs- a little small but not much different then the weight Lauren was at the same age. We are also told she has one tooth!

We will keep you all posted along the way.

So she will be exactly 11 months old on the day we arrive back in Canada. We will be celebrating her 1st birthday on August 30th