Our travel coordinator said to expect our TA in a week or two and if all goes as planned, we will leave for China on February 25th! Although this means we won't get our girl before the Chinese New Year holiday closures, we are really, really good with this! It gives us time to research flights and quite frankly time to relax and enjoy the rest of this journey. I can't tell you how good it feels, 4 months after seeing that beautiful face for the first time, to finally have a date!
We sent a pretty long list of questions in one of our recent packages to Sofie and were so lucky to have almost all of them answered and returned to Angela @ Lady Bugs N Love! She just translated them for me so will share some of them with you:
- Sofie goes to bed around 9pm and does not get up at night - she takes a 1-2 hour nap each afternoon
- She likes baths
- She likes her grandpa to put her on his lap and play with her
- Give her something to eat or meet her request makes her happy (My kind of girl!)
- She likes dolls, play hide and seek. She also likes to read and sing songs.
- To calm her when she cries - give her some snacks or other things can get her attention
- Her foster grandparents are in their 50's and really love her. (Sniff, sniff) Hong Yan especially loves to stay with her grandpa. They take in foster children because they like children and it helps support their family.
- The foster grandparents have a nephew and grandson who come to play with Hongyan on the weekends and holidays
- Hong Yan is a big girl now. Sometimes she is a little stubborn. She is very smart. (Love it!)
- Her name was chosen because they hope she will grow up happily just like a swallow bird (And so she will!)
The best part...they told us they are making a photo album for her and will give it to us when we come to pick her up. This album and these answers will be priceless as Sofie grows up.
On another note, my adorable Etsy art finds arrived so I will show a few of them off. These will go on the wall above Sofie's bookcase:
If you haven't discoverd Etsy yet, do take a look. Lots of handmade treasures to be found!
I'm so happy for you, Melissa! Just to hear news and get a tentative date and know that you will be meeting your daughter in the near future is wonderful!
ReplyDeleteI love the update you received and how priceless to get the photo album! It sounds like she is in a very loving foster family!
Congratulations on everything!
Tammy
Oh and I forgot to say that I love your Etsy finds.....Love em!
ReplyDeleteI'm so excited and I just can't hide it! Cute art..lots of food in the abc chart..she'll like that. Enjoy your time together while you wait, Mom xo
ReplyDeleteYep - it seems the girl likes her food! I've looked at a lot...a LOT of abc art and loved this one because it was so different.
ReplyDeleteNeat I did think (can't remember ) imagine that, I told you that P. Buckley is wintering and painting in Fla. and won't do signing in our area till April and Frank, Debbi and I are going to try to make the one in Waynesboro in April . Picture Is a little over 8x10. Then I can go up to their frame shop one day and take pictures of different frame sizes and colors, Maybe white, and matting. I can take pictures of the mat colors and you can let me know all of this, what you want. --maybe white or a color mat that picks up something like the colors in her bedspread or something in her room. Eventually, it will get to you, I slept all afternoon --- worse headache in years and years and now, I am wide awake.
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