Care Package Is Off

Our care package is off to China!  Among some art supplies and cars for ChunMing to share with his roomates, we sent a disposable camera and  a photo book especially for him.  We have hopes that he will take photos of his friends and nannies to bring back with him to the USA.  The photo book included photos of all of our family members, our home, and even our cat Snickers.  Thanks to a sweet friend, we had a letter especially for ChunMing translated as well.

Notice the hand coming in to snatch whatever goodie he can during my moment of distraction. :)


All this time we thought this care package would be his introduction to us, but we just found out that the orphanage told him months ago that he had a family coming to get him.  Apparently he asked the assistant director, "Why haven't they come to get me?" but then he said he figured we hadn't got there yet because we live so far away. 


On one hand he will be well prepared, but on the other, this time must be very difficult for him as other children find out they have families and leave before his even gets there.  More incentive to push this process through as quickly as we can.


Here are a couple of photos of ChunMing that a friend took for us a couple of weeks ago while she was there to pick up her son.