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Thursday, November 12, 2009
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABY GIRL . . .
WE LOVE YOU!

We sent another care package and here is what we said…

Dear You Jing Jing,

Soon you will be celebrating your 2nd birthday and oh how we wish we were there to celebrate with you and your foster family. We received updated information on you recently and can see how you are growing and changing…you are such a beautiful baby girl. We were excited to see how you have grown and to hear about your new developments.

We hope you enjoy your birthday cake and the gifts we sent you and your foster family. They are just a small expression of the love we have for you to celebrate this very special moment in your life and the thanks we give to your foster family for taking such good care of you. We will also celebrate your birthday here in America with cake and a special meal and we will light a candle and wish for you a very special day and that soon we will all be together as a family.

Enclosed is a camera that we hope will be used to capture you on your very special day. We would love pictures of you with your foster family and you enjoying your gifts…in years to come these will be a treasure and will capture your early life and memories.

We continue to talk about you daily…your big sister Ellie Lu “Bo Juan” can’t wait to meet you and play with you. She holds your picture and ask about you. She loves you already. Each night as we prepare for bed we say a prayer for you and your foster family in China.

Every Sunday we practice our Mandarin so that we may be able to speak to you when we meet. We wish we could be there to hug you and celebrate with you on this special day, but we ask that your foster family give you extra special hugs and kisses today to celebrate your sweet life and all that is to come in your 2nd year.

Enjoy your new outfit and shoes and we hope you like having your new book read to you. We love music and thought you would like this musical toy. In our update we were told you like to dance…we love to dance too…your daddy and I met while dancing many years ago. We can’t wait to share our love of music and dance with you. We are counting the days until we are invited to China and are so grateful that we have been chosen to become your family. Many thanks to your foster family and big hugs and kisses to YOU…we love you very much.

Much love to you on this very special day….

We love you You Jing Jing,
Daddy, Mommy and Ellie Lu “Bo Juan”

Me and Ellie Lu

All of us

Cupcakes we made for Ellie Lu's class to celebrate

Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday You Jing Jing
Happy Birthday to you

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

HAPPY 2nd BIRTHDAY Jing Jing…how we celebrated YOU.

Today YOU will turn 2 years old and oh how I long to be there with you…to hold you for the first time, to look into your eyes, to hear you squeal. To see you eat cake and pinch it between your fingers oh I just can’t wait to know you and for you to know us…YOUR FAMILY!

We celebrated YOU on Saturday…we went to PFChangs and had Chinese and sang happy birthday to you. We met another family who had just come home with their 10 year old daughter Isabelle from Guangzhou…she was beautiful and said I spoke Mandarin well…I have been practicing just for you.

Your sister ate with chopsticks all by herself and I did too…Daddy tried a little too. We can’t wait for our first trip to eat Chinese together as a family…so many first to experience with YOU. It is starting to sink in that soon we will be on our way to you…there was a time when we thought we might not ever be a family and we waited what seemed to be an eternity for Ellie Lu and so many things changed during that time that we really thought there was no way for us to ever return to China to adopt again and add to our family.

Your Daddy just kept asking do you think it is possible that we might could go back…I didn’t have the heart to tell him no so one day I inquired and that started our journey to you…but really I think it started several years ago right before you were born….while we were waiting for Ellie Lu we were selected by a birth mother to adopt her baby boy…it was the middle of November 2007…it was crazy how in the world could we adopt a baby boy and then turn right around and travel to China…we didn’t question anything we just accepted what was before us and had faith…well it didn’t work out…the birth mother changed her mind and we didn’t adopt that baby boy….little did we know that you were born just a few days after that big disappointment in our life and that one day our lives would be brought together.

On the day you were born I traveled with friends to go shopping and my heart was broken for I didn’t know if we would ever be a family, but I had faith and I kept hoping and praying that one day soon we would receive news and we would travel to China and we would become a family….little did I know what a blessing was taking place you were being born and for reasons that I may never know your birth mother chose to put you in a very special place so that you could be found and taken care of and on that very day the journey began.

Just when we thought there was no way for us to be matched with another daughter our phone rang and we were presented with your information…how could it be…how could we be so lucky to be chosen to be your parents…we are so thankful that God’s plan for us was bigger than we could have imagined and that he prepared us and allowed us to hope and dream even when it seemed there was no way our dreams could come true….well on May 26th our dream came true…we were matched with you and we have so much to look forward to and so much to experience with you …hang tight little one your foster family will take care of you until we are given permission to travel to bring you home…until then we just count the days and continue to dream of all that is possible….with FAITH!
Once YOU are home we will celebrate YOU with friends and family and let them know of your very special journey to YOUR family.

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