I had a great surprise when I got to work today - an e-mail from a friend who is in Ethiopia! She is employed with a sister company to our agency and she has been working on a project to "spruce-up" our agency's transitional home (basically an orphanage ran by our agency) where our baby is waiting for us to come pick her up. She has been loving on and praying over Baby Girl since this past Sunday! It has been so wonderful to read her posts on Facebook as she loves on so many children for waiting families!
Today, her e-mail stated that she saw Baby Girl again today and that Baby Girl immediately smiled when she saw her. She said that she has great social skills and reiterated how beautiful she is! We also got 2 new pictures (and the video that the Holland family took will arrive any day now, so that will add to the joy). My mommy heart is just about to explode with thankfulness!
Each month, we are allowed to submit 5 questions to our agency and they are forwarded to the staff in ET. The staff answers our questions in addition to providing updated medical info like illnesses, height, weight, etc. We also will receive at least 1 pic with the update. We should get the monthly update any day now, so that would be a wonderful way to end this crazy week that I've had!
Be sure to keep a close eye on the bar on the right side of the screen that lists blogs for other adoptive families. This list is automatically updated whenever a family posts something new, and hopefully there will be lots of new posts this coming week as there is a HUGE travel group headed to Ethiopia RIGHT NOW! Our baby girl will receive another care package on Tuesday. Thank you, Carpenter family for loving on her for us!
I just have to say this, as cliche as it may be, ISN'T GOD GOOD!
