Three for Thursday

My three thoughts for Thursday:

1.  I'm so very thankful that "our people" from our agency have been in China these past two weeks.  They have been traveling all over seeing as many orphanages and children as they can.  And, yes, they saw our little one!  Of course I wish it was me but having someone check on her and love on her warms my heart. I hope she somehow felt our love.

2.  I'm so excited we got a little update through email!  I can't wait for a phone call to get more information and hopefully pictures.  I'm hoping to be able to "share" her with all of you here soon when everything is official.  It's SO hard to wait!

3.  We've been told she enjoyed playing with the blocks we sent.  I can only imagine her little hands holding them.  Our first present to her and we can't wait to be the ones to play with her and hold her. She has already filled our hearts so much and we haven't even met.  I can only imagine the love once we meet her. She definitely needs to be here...quickly, please!
 I feel she already belongs here with us, and we belong with her.

First Present

Have you ever had a hard time buying a gift for someone?  What about someone you haven't met?  What if that someone is your future daughter?  

We are so lucky that our agency is sending a great team over to China soon to visit their partner orphanages and see as many kids as they can.  And the best news?  They will be checking on our little one and taking her a gift from us!  But the gift needs to be light and small since they take many things over there.

 So, what did we send? 

We spent a while here looking around for the perfect "first gift"...

We got a little sidetracked looking at all the things we get to buy someday: car seat, jogging stroller, bows, kids potty, cute bathrobes with hoods, adorable clothes, shoes, did I mention bows??  I mean really colorful, really big bows! Can't wait!

We decided everyone needs a soft lovie and some blocks so they'll be heading to China soon! 

 And no, Roxi is not going to China, just the toys.

We are all waiting eagerly for the next bit of good news.  We can't wait to introduce everyone to our daughter here on the blog as soon as things are official.

Roxi didn't want us to share this outtake but that's what we parents do!  She says she wasn't ready and I didn't count 1,2,3 for the picture.