Ouch Part 2

Maybe I was scared that they would see me cry but I finally toughed it out and got my shots today. I had to get the MMR shot among others which stung worse than a bee sting when she initially inserted the needle - now I know why Kyle didn't like it ! I guess it's just a minor sacrifice in this whole adoption process.

Ouch!

Kyle and I went to the UW travel clinic today and got our first round of shots! I told Kyle he could hold this against Linnea someday. He had to get 4, and will go back in a month for two more. I only got two. PAul goes in a couple of weeks. He was supposed to go today with us, but he coincidentally had a meeting. Maybe he did not want us to see him cry.

care package

I mailed off a care package to Linnea Jia Lu today. The adoption agency will mail it for us. We put pictures of the three of us in there with labels of who we are (the agency will translate) and a toy and a teddy bear. Hopefully she will get it. I am not sure how much of it she will understand though.

here is our BLOG

Here is our BLOG This will be our journal of our journey to bring Linnea Jia Lu home to our family. For those of you who have not met her yet, she is currently waiting for us in China. (Kyle's friend at school asked him why he left his sister in China) She will be two years old in October and we hope to go and get her sometime in the Fall, probably after her birthday, but before Christmas. Her name is translated to New Jade, so we nicknamed the post little Jade. She is in an orphanage in eastern China, in a city called Xuzhou. We will probably pick her up in Nanching, China ( a "medium" sized city of 8 million people). Today I went shopping at Target to start to compile all the stuff we will need. Since we will be in a larger city we can buy a lot of stuff there. It has been recommended though that we take medicines and stuff like that from home, so we can read the labels. The doctor gave us a list of all kinds of stuff to take in case she needs it when we get her,-lice medicine, scabies medicine, cold medicine, constipation, diarrhea, etc... Yikes, we will be a traveling pharmacy.

Pre placement phone call

Today I had a conference call with a social worker from the adoption agency. I felt so important being part of a conference call. Anyway, she talked about what to expect when we finally get her in our arms. Not that it will be a cookie cutter response from her, but she can give us a little idea of what to expect. I think if we can just keep in mind and try to put ourselves in her shoes and remember the trauma that she is experiencing, it will help us in trying to understand her a litttle better and be patient with her.