Day 6 - Official Mom and Dad - New Pics

Today was the day we officially became Mikayla's mom and dad for life. We were sworn to love and cherish, never abuse or abandon her and all three of us were finger printed. Then they say I now pronounce you legal mother and father. They took pics and gave us a bronze and 24 karat gold plate as a gift for best wishes and that everything will be doing well. We will get a small photo album of Mikayla and passport for her on Friday. Today was a very rainy day. Many places were flooding. We drove down roads that people were walking across that the water was up to their knees. Tomorrow we are to go to the zoo but that might change if it is still raining and the zoo apparently is in an area that floods. They say we may go to the building that is on our gold plates which is called "The Hall of the People" I believe along with maybe some museums if it does continue to rain. We will find out tomorrow morning where we go for site seeing. Then afterward we will go to Walmart. The reason we will go to Walmart is because the shopping today was pretty bad in the rain and the stores were not what we expected nor did they have what we wanted for a price we were willing to pay. It was sort of like shopping in Frontenac or a mall verses Walmart. Trying to find what you want, sizes you want and have anyone understand you was pretty frustrating for all of us. We all came back to our rooms and relaxed until tomorrow. Mikayla woke about 6:30am still as sweet as can be. We did have our first messy diaper which was not much of a mess but we could have used a clothes pin or two. :) She loves to walk. We walked her all around the hotel on 3 or 4 different floors (we are on the 15th and there are 27 I think). We checked out the 3rd floor full of restaurants, the 11th floor for the tennis court, the 7th floor where the pool and spa is and also the lobby with restaurants and bakery where you can get sandwiches, chocolate and danishes. She does well with naps, eating and playing with us or alone. We even had those full deep belly laughs at times. She sleeps through the night at least so far. The only time she got a bit crabby was when we were in the store but I am sure she sensed everyone was on edge plus we were standing still a lot and she likes to keep moving. All in all it was a busy day and we were all ready to crash to start a new day tomorrow as Mother, Father and Daughter, as an official Family. Catch you all on day 7...