Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Rain, rain go away . . .

We love you Wei He Mei!  Oh how I wish we had little feet to put in these boots so they could jump in some puddles!  It's the simple things, the everyday mundane things I'm looking forward to doing with our daughter.  I normally don't care for rainy days unless I can sleep in; however, these pink rain boots splashing in the yard would just make my day!!!! Oh we cant wait to bring you home sweet girl.

Monday, April 28, 2014

Home study where art thou?

Ugggh, I know our new home study was approved last Monday but we have yet to get the hard copies in the mail.  We need this desperately to file with immigration.  Please, oh please, be in my mail box when I get home!!!

Monday, April 21, 2014

Our care package has arrived in China!!

We mailed a care package to Delaney on Friday, April 11th and we received an e-mail saying it was delivered today the 21st.  It arrived on the 16th but had to clear customs.  We were told it would be delivered to her this week. We could have sent a pre-made package from our agency or from any number of companies that do this for adoptive families. However; we chose to mail our own package to Ann of Red Thread and she is to forward it on to the child welfare institute.  We will likely only send one package before we travel so we wanted to make it personal.  I cant imagine how odd it would be to get a gift from someone half way around the world that you've never met. Remember, she doesn't know she has a mama and baba waiting for her but is soon to see our faces in the photo album we sent.  Here's what we included . . . .

a blanket (our church prayed over), an outfit/socks (a fish wouldn't have been my first choice but so many were inappropriate for what we were doing; like the ones saying "Mommy's Angel" or "Daddy's princess") We just felt that was a little pushy since she's not officially ours yet and we didn't know how China would view that.  We sent a disposable camera so they could take pics of her daily activities, a lovey doll and a small chocolate scented plush rabbit. I drove home from the storr with the rabbit tucked next to my heart under my seatbelt after I had prayed over it and Daddy breathed a special "breath of life and well wishes" onto the lovey doll.   We also included a photo album with about 8 photos of us and our dog, Penny.  We labeled all of the photos with Chinese calligraphy indicating "these are your parents, this is your mama, this is your baba, this is your dog"  Sure hope I don't mix them up! 
Cover of the photo album so the Nannies will know who it belongs to at a glance.

Sampling of photos


Our chocolate scented Bunny, may be just in time for Easter.

Saturday, April 19, 2014

So what was in the Stork's Package? . . .

I'm surprised you've not asked before now, ha ha.  I've been so busy, there's not been much time for blogging but I'll try to do better.  Enclosed in our FedEx package were all the official documents from China regarding Delaney.  We received a hard copy of her medical records and her brief history of the time she's been in China.  We got the hard copies of the photos we'd only seen on line to this point and we received two large packets of paperwork from our agency that we had to complete.  One packet was returned immediately to our agency and forwarded to China; it included the Letter Seeking Confirmation or (LSC).  It was our agreement with China that we accept Wei, He Mei and will further pursue bringing her home.  The second packet has yet to be returned as we have to receive our updated home study and this packet is then returned to immigration. We desperately hope to have the home study back in the next week.  So here's a peak inside
at the contents of the Fed Ex box . . .
And our official documents . . .
That's us!!!! China knows we exist!!!