Journey of Faith:Our Little Guy From China

Tim and I started looking into care packages that we could send to Caleb because his birthday was on 9/22.  We knew that we had not received LOA by the time the week began for his birthday, and we were sad about this.  But I kept researching, sending emails to the care package companies about different questions I had and soon, before you knew it, we had ordered one!  Because of the holidays around Caleb's birthday we got a late start, but the photo book turned out great.  We just sent one with photos of us, our home and kitty and such.  It included candies, and a card from us and a cake.  I hope the 5 kids with Caleb will really enjoy the cake!  Later we may send more to him.  We are hoping to get updated measurements for him.  So it will be delivered to him on October 6th.  We wonder if he will understand any of it.  But we hope it is just the beginning of us "talking" to him before we get there to meet him. We are hoping we will get photos, but are expecting not to get them until we pick him up. Enjoy the photos of some of the items we sent him!!

Our agency gal, Jill, called me today at about 1:38pm.  I saw I missed the call.  Then I went to my new cell phone to see if I had a message.  I saw that she called there and that I had a voice mail.  My heart was pounding with excitement.  I knew I still had a lot of work to get done before leaving for the day.  But yet, I still wanted to know why she was calling...could it be????  We were always the one to contact them because they did not have any news for us for so long.  I tried calling Tim.  I tried to get into my voicemail, but I just got a new phone and did not know what the password was to get voicemail.  I went to Verizons website to see if there was a password set.  Could not find a thing.  Still working...  Enough time went by that Jill called again at 1:51 pm. She said she did not leave a message she just called every number we have.  That would be six numbers...she started over with my work number...she got me!!!  I was so excited!  It came via DHL.  Now, mind you, our agency does not work on Fridays, so it was unexpected, but we are so grateful that Jill was there to receive the DHL package. 

Monday we will sign, give them the next fees and move forward....what a great weekend!  Wow, I guess Tim just needed to leave the city for a weekend and it would happen.  I just wish I could give him a big hug.  He would call me every day to this point and ask "so did Jill call?"  or he would say " I guess Jill did not call, right?"  It broke my heart that he was thinking so much about it.

Caleb, did you hear that?  Mama and Baba are coming soon!!  We love you!! 

Love to everyone!!!

Caleb,

Here is the second photo we saw of you.  Again our hearts melted...look at your outfit how adorable is that? (hopefully the photo is large enough to see the dimple on the upper left hand cheek...awwww!)

"Not bone of my bone, nor flesh of my flesh, but still miraculously my own. Never forget for a single minute: you didn't grow under my heart, but in it."   ---By Fleur Conkling Heyliger