With a wry but happy smile, Jennifer Rose DiLaura recalls the day she and her husband first met their daughter, adopted from China.
"Together with seven other American couples, we were ushered into a room with chairs arranged around the edge, in the center of which was a group of toddlers wrapped up against the cold, with their caretakers. With her photo in our hands, we recognized Ariana almost immediately."
DiLaura still gets emotional when she recalls the moment the near 2 1/2-year-old was placed in her arms, because Ariana screamed her head off at the sight of her, and basically screamed for the next three days. "It was hardly the romantic scenario imagined, but then I hadn't been looking at events from her point of view."