Our Baby Girl Knows About Us!

We received some new pictures of our Thea looking at & playing with the photo album of our family that we sent to her.  Now that our travel plans are confirmed, Shepherd's Field was able to tell her about us and show her the album...thankfully Thea didn't cry when she looked at them! :)  Although, apparently she came very close to tears when they tried to flip the pages of the photo book to show her!  Instead they let her play with the book and check us out on her own...looks like our baby girl might be a sensitive little one! 

If you look close, she's drooling on my neck! :) 

Can't wait until she does this for real!

Checking out her cutie big brothers...or maybe the birds? :)

Because of her young age, I'm sure Thea doesn't understand much about the fact that she now has a forever family.  I'm so glad that we decided to send Thea a baby type album that she can have with her to play with until we meet her.  She will most likely be more interested in looking at the animal pictures on the album:), but our prayer is that by getting to play with the album and look at our pictures for the next 4 weeks...she would get used to seeing our faces, and hopefully this will make it a bit easier on her when we first meet her and begin caring for her.  Praying for this bigtime!

We had another lovely surprise today...Thea got her very first gift...and a beautifully wrapped one I might add!  My good friend Leslie gave it to me today...it was such a wonderful surprise and an extremely thoughtful gift from their family.  I let the boys open it for Thea...they were so excited...and while I was in tears when I saw the beautiful little dolly...the boys were oohing and awwing!  It was halarious really...obviously they don't play with dolls much (or ever really)...they couldn't get enough of this cute little thing, in fact I had to enforce 'turn taking' so they could both have their time with her!  Nathaniel was cuddling her, petting her hair, and talking to her so lovingly...and then Mataeus was playing make believe and giving her piggy back rides...so sweet!  I can't say how thankful I am for this gift...I have been looking everywhere for the perfect little doll for 'our little doll'...and here she is!  Thea will love her I'm sure! :)

After all the loving...the sweet little dolly is now safely tucked away until we can bring it to China for our baby girl to cuddle.

Gayle :)